S7Michelle Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Re: WWYCD #115: Xerox Paradox...Baby Blues! Out of curiousity' date=' what exactly is the relationship between Adam and his group and your Xavier analogue. I get the impression its relatively non-antagonistic, with the conflicts being arguments of ideals rather than battles, usually.[/quote'] So far we haven’t actually gotten to interact with Donald Henderson and the students of the Arcadina Academy, though I really do wish we could and have tried hinting as much to our GM. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem interested in bringing them into an active role in the game. So far we’ve just had a reference to them while we were attending a dance in our secret identities. Since we game via internet, and I saved all the text from the dance, it will be easy to copy and paste it in here. “Vivian squeezes Jasen's arm and bops Adam "Oooh look look Adam." This man seems older then he looks. His aura seems to say wisdom and power, but he seems distant and aloof. He is wearing a long sport tux with a western flair....the thin bolo tie and a belt with a large sterling silver buckle. That’s Donald Henderson, another multi-billionaire, and the sole owner of Henderson International and all its various affiliates. Adam has known him and done business with him for ages and they are on good terms. He has a lavish mansion in the Pacific Heights area as well as ones in Manhattan and other places around the country and world. Lately he has been the talk of the upscale community by becoming a more visible participant in social galas and winding his way through a flurry of surprising romances. Still...his most outstanding feature is one of hidden value. He is the main financier of the Arcadian Academy....which is a school for gifted youth or rather ... mutants. Adam have tried several times to support this and donate money too since that school is a huge monetary sinkhole but Don always refuses....not like he needs help, but Adam would give him his support if he’d let him.†Our primary opponents are the City’s Champions. They are a group of non-mutants consisting of Santana (cybernetic brick/power armor type that never shows emotion) Wheeler (flirtatious speedster, gained powers through an accident), McCray (proper and composed teleporter/martial artist. Powers via science I think), and Stokes (gadgetteer who has a definite prejudice against mutants). We have a decent relationship with them, mainly because they haven’t caught us doing anything all that evil. They’ve even cooperated with us once to rescue a large three-headed fire breathing dog. Cannis dragged her packmates into that one. She likes dogs. Though as a result of that battle, Cannis now owes her life to Wheeler and McCray (they each saved her once). She’s still figuring out how best to pay that debt back. Wheeler has a tendency to flirt with any woman that’s at least moderately attractive, and our group has four villainesses in it, each with a high Com. So there is definately a lot of flirting going on during the encounters. He has even taken Cannis out to dinner once in an attempt to talk her into turning good. It had a slight effect, but I don’t see him “redeeming†Cannis anytime soon. She’s positive she doesn’t need redeemed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S7Michelle Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Re: WWYCD #115: Xerox Paradox...Baby Blues! If we encountered students from the Arcadian Academy (and they were very like the traditional X-Men), Cannis’ would probably see them as naïve and rather foolish and probably try talking a bit of sense into them with statements like these. After they protected some anti-mutant types: “You know, I just can’t understand why you are out here risking yourselves to protect them. While I think the City’s Champions are foolish, at least the city financially supports them and they get praised and loved for their actions. Meanwhile, your doing this for what…the off-chance that maybe you’ll change one of their minds about you. It won’t work, they don’t hate mutants because of something mutants did, they hate mutants because of what we are—Superior.†“Don’t you get it. Mutants are wolves among sheep. We are stronger, faster, more dangerous. And humanity fears predators and tries to destroy them or at least cage them. Look at the wolf after all, bounties put on its head, hunted to near extinction not that many decades ago. You seem to think that if you pretend that you aren’t wolves, if you try to act as guard dogs, they will accept you.†She shakes her head, “It might seem to work for a while. They may tolerate you because you are useful. But they’ll still fear you, still hate the fact that they are weaker than you. You’ll never truly be one of them.†If someone tries the “with great power, comes great responsibility lineâ€: Cannis laughs. “Oh, I’m sorry….you were serious? Ok, I suppose you are partially right. In order to keep the pack strong, strong members should help those that are weaker. But just because one is superior in some way doesn’t mean that they owe the entire world something. Are professional athletes expected to perform hard labor for people just because they have better bodies? Is the high school brain obligated to use his superior intellect to do his classmates homework as well as his own? Of course not. So why should mutants feel obligated to serve humanity just because we have an ability they lack. If anything it should be the reverse. Throughout history the weak have served the strong, not the other way around.†Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Watcher Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Re: WWYCD #115: Xerox Paradox...Baby Blues! Warp: When his mutant power were originally stimulated he just developed teleportation, Spatial Awareness, and his Defensive Spatial Shunt. All the other applications of his Dimensional Manipulation came from experimentation and practice. So younger versions of himself won't pose that big a threat, though they'd be very hard to round up. A chase could range over the entire world. Daniel might have to figure out a dimensional anchoring application of his power to successfully catch them all. He would catch them all eventually and then get his team mates to help get rid of any brainwashing or programming they might have undergone. Then he'd raise them all in secret as best he could, hopefully with help from the rest of the Sentinels. What really hurts is that whoever did this could now very likely know Warp's secret id. It all depends on how young the clones are and whether the one responsible noticed a certain ressemblence to a famous multi-billionaire playboy. Oh, and whatever else happens, Tesserect would be in heaven. Due to the interaction of their powers proximity to Warp gives her a pleasurable sensation and active use of his powers makes it stronger. So Warp chasing half a dozen mini-versions of himself would be pure bliss as far as she's concerned. Spectrum: Since the duplicates have some of his memories this obviously was an attempt by Spectrum's Mystery Hunted to access the Progenitor Knowledge downloaded into his subconscious. Spectrum would try to get the government to put as many resources as it could to help him capture and deprogram them, as due to both their powers and his memories they would be serious security risks. Mystic: Would try to ascertain the nature of his duplicates before he decided how to deal with them. Are they clones who are truly individuals, or aspects of himself somehow mystically split off by an arcane opponent? Clones or other free-willed entities would be dealt with by freeing them from the control of malevolent entities or hostile spellcasters, and then taking them on as apprentices. Split off aspects of himself he'd deal with by cleansing them of any mystic taint or influence, and then absorbing them back into himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbsousa Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Re: WWYCD #115: Xerox Paradox...Baby Blues! So he wouldn't be chuffed about someone having their own gadgeteer think tank? Mass production of doomsday weapons begins tuesday... He's Destroyer, he is a gadgeteer think tank. And the forces that made Golden Eagle a battlesuit wearing gadgeteer could not be reproduced genetically. If the kids have the potential, they would still need to be educated, trained, and brought up to resist their inner impulses to make the world a better place. Having said that, he would try to destroy the factory, rescue the kids, and probably put them in the young superhero prep school in Westchester (which, in the GGI Universe, is not for mutants only...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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