the V-Battalion

[Willpower]

Hello everyone, I just wanted to announce my new game and let everyone see how things worked my first session. I am going to eventually start a website for this game, and am going to try and document each session.

 

First off, regardless of the title of this thread, we haven't established a name yet. The game is set up group oriented, so we established a theme for the group. I'll start telling you the history, but since my players read here also, I will only be telling as much as they know as well.

 

In the 1960's Viper came into existence. Shortly after that a new hero came onto the scene in Detroit named the Ghost. The Ghost was an occult based detective, who used a combination of martial arts, mystic equipment and a small repetiore of magic spells to combat crime, particularly occult based crime. Within a year of his first appearance though, a change began to occur, as Viper rose in power, he became more and more concerned with tem, and soon Viper was his number one enemy. He still had others, but he tried hardest fighting Viper. He began rising to the top of Viper's most wanted list as well, and thruought the 70's he and Viper were arch-enemies. This went on for several decades, until in the early to mid-nineties, the Ghost fell off the Superhero map. He seemed to disappear without a trace. A lot of people thought Viper had finally got him. Though Viper knew otherwise. He was still high on their most wanted list, though even they weren't sure what happened to him.

 

By the year 2002, Viper had all but stopped looking for the Ghost. He was still on their most wanted list, but since he hadn't been seen in a decade or so, they assumed he was gone. In reality, as age set in the Ghost became even more obsessed with taking down Viper, and on his last mission he recieved an injury which never quite healed, even with his magical resources. This is when he decided, that he had been fighting like a soldier during his entire war with Viper, and what a war really needed to be won, was a general. He went into hiding and started working more in secret, building resources, to relaunch his war with Viper. He managed to get informants inside of Viper, and even managed to get a worm into their computer system. This worm, has yet to be discovered, and filters a very small amount of Viper's money to a swiss bank account he had set up. This way he would use Viper's own money to fund a war against them.

 

The Ghost had also managed to get together a list of potential recruits for a team set up mostly from within Viper. Viper's extensive list of Villains included some that wanted out, but didn't know how to get out. This included; Strike, a spanish fencer, who was also a technical genius and used several hi-tech gadgets. And the Imp who was a demon who had taken over a young mans body, and could teleport in, kill people and be gone, so he was a top rate assassin for Viper. Another was a girl Viper had created during some of their genetic research studies in the early 80's. She was used as an interrigator for Viper, as she was a touch telepath. Viper kept her under lock and key, she wasn't a normal villain for them, but was more a prisoner, who had never seen the light of day. They called her, Mentalina. The Ghost, also had a few allies, one of which harted Viper nearly as much as he did. This was a mystical Aikido master, named Ki Warrior. He can use his Ki energy to supplement his normal prowess in may unusual ways, including putting on a burst of speed which allows him to run over 150 km/hr, and to throw, and sometimes lift around 100 tons. The Ghost managed to plan an exodus out of Viper one nights, where, Ki Warrior attacked a Viper base, with a few assistants, to cause a distraction, and Strike and Imp escaped rescuing Mentalina. a few others escaped with them, including some Viper agents, who also wanted to turn over a new leaf. Some of these villains and some of the agents died in the break out, and some of them, after freeing themselves, just wanted to be free of Viper, so they went off on their own. A few remained though to help build the Ghost's army. These were Strike, who eventually created a powered suit for himself and took on the name Hi-Tek, Sebation, who has now reasserted most control of his body from Imp, and Mentalina, who has never known any life outside of Viper, she also changed her name and is going by Esperz. Together with Ki Warrior, and under the guide of the Ghost, they have now foguth Viper for over a year.

 

The team lives in a mansion outside of Millenium City, that appears like a normal mansion, but the basement is more set up like a base. The mansion is run by the Ghosts longtime friend and butler, Mr. Reginald, and the rest of the staff, is primarily made up of ex-Viper Agents. This allows the Chauffeur to also fly the VTOL. FRED (Fully Realized Electronic Database) is the bases artificial intelligence.

[Willpower]

OK, my first game is done, and was when I posted the first post here. Here's how it went.

 

I wanted to start things with a bang, so I started the first game with the group chasing some villains into a warehouse. They were downtown, and several memebers of PSI showed up close to where they were and started wreaking havok. (They had mentally found Esperz in the area, who they hunt and anted to capture, and they sent several members to capture her. She can't do as much to them, so they didn't expect too much trouble, especially when they would have her outnumbered 5 to 1. They didn't know she had friends too. So we began the game, after their initial encounter was over. Two of their initial number were defeated, and left for the police, as the rest of our team chased Mindslayer, Deuce, and Soulfire into a warehouse.

 

They approached the warehouse, and Imp jumps the gun and T-Ports inside, only to find its really dark in there. He sees some movement on the other side of the warehouse though. Ki Warrior, and Esperz go to the door, while Hi-Tek flies over the roof to get a better perspective. When Ki Warrior opens the door slightly Imp can now see that Deuce is flying around on the opposite side of the warehouse, the movement he saw. She sees the door oppening and starts for it, then sees him and flies up shoving her hand into his chest causing extreme pain, or mental anguish, you might call it. Esperz flips on the lights, and now they can see Mindslayer hinding behind some boxes. On the table in front of her though, laid out in an assortment is a lot of what looks like really big fireworks. They also notice most of the boxes in the warehouse have various signs signifying the same thing. Mindslayer flings a couple of mind knives at Ki Warrior just missing him. Who responds by charging over with an attack of his own that misses. Imp T-Ports over and tries to Aport Mindslayer to the ceiling, but her Force Wall gets in his way, and he then T-ports to the ceiling, he then sees Soulfire hiding next to the office. Deuce Flies over to Ki Warrior and tries to touch him, but fails. Esperz, who is the only one who doesn't know what firworks are runs over and tries to touch Deuce, hits and scores some damage, but given Deuces psychic abilities, is met with strong resistance. Ki Warrior then tries to hit Deuce with a Ki Strike and his hands go right thru her. At this point Hi-Tek cuts a hole in the ceiling with his power staff and and lowers down. He is the only one who really stands a chance against Deuce since her intangible state is vulnerable to energy. Mindslayer shouts a curse at Esperz which basically tells her she is who they were after, and fires a knife at her hitting her, and doing 1 body and stun. Deuce sees Hi-Tek, and Soulfire and flies thru the hole that Hi-Tek made. Espers then attacks Mindslayer back thinking she might protect herself with he FW, but she keeps it trained on the boxes. Soulfire then shoots a fireball at the firworks where most the team is, and hits. Imp sees it though and tries to T-Ports for the door. The blast knocks Esperz, and Hi-Tek back, hurting Esperz more than Hi-Tek. It also hurts Ki Warrior, but he manages to stay on his feet. Ki Warrior then runs over and strikes Soulfire sending him realing back with one stun left. Esperz is stunned so can't act. Mindslayer blasts Esperz again getting a better result this time. Then all the fireworks explode. The Blast hits and blows thru Mindslayers FW knocking her back, but not hurting her incredibly. It also hurts Hi-Tek and Imp and Ki Warrior, knocking Imp to the ground. Ki Warrior Runs over to Esperz and applies a healing touch, and Imp gets up and Tports over to take Mindslayer out, and ends his attack, close to Soulfire. Hi-Tek flips up and flies after Deuce and fires at her missing. Ki Warrior then beats Imp over to Soulfire to finish knocking him unconscious.

 

The team waits for the police, though Ki Warrior and Imp leave when they get their leaving Hi-Tek and Esperz to answer their questions. The team then gets a message from Ghost telling them he needs them at the mansion. So they head back to the Mansion. Ki Warrior's nephew, who doesn't know about Ki Warrior's superheroing asks to be read a bedtime story, so Ki Warrior misses the meeting Ghost asked the others to attend. The Ghost gathers the rest of the team in the Library to go over a mystic presence he has felt. He tells them that something is happening, he doesn't know what, but it deals with a force more powerful than any he has ever known. (Ghost has a mystical awareness keyed to certain cosmic forces) He says that something fell to Earth in Lake Eerie, and that he feels somehow Viper found out about it first, cause whatever was there is gone now and he feels it is now with Viper. He wants the team to go out to the landing site and see if they can get information. So the team heads for FRED there VTOL and heads out.

 

When they get close to the area of the landing site though they are hailed off by UNTIL helicopters. So the VTOL opens its hatch and the team piles out onto an energy platform made by Hi-Tek. The Until Choppers still don't let them close to the area, so they go ashore as close as they can to the scene. Imp though teleports onto the side of one of the Until Choppers, and heads back with them. What most the team sees from a distance, and what Imp sees close up is about a dozen lights circling the area of the crash in the water. The lights are roughly human size and move somewhat randomly in a circular pattern around the area. Imp sees up close that these are some sort of ghostly personages. One suddenly veers course and goes thru the copter Imp is on and passes thru him. The Copter veered when it approached, and Imp feels a weird sensation when it passes thru him, which is somewhat painful.

 

Meanwhile on the shoreline. The team wants more information so Hi-Tek taps into UNTIL radios and gets some of the information they have. Basically using their sofisticated equipment they detected a source of mystic energy crash down here ealrier in the evenning. They investigated and it was gone, but found an energy trail, which they followed via sub. The trail then split off into multiple trails, and eventually they fgured out they were being lead on a wild goose chase and then the trails disappeared. Shortly after that these ghostly like images appeared. They haven't been able to communicate with them yet, but they know they are insubstantial, but still cause problems when passing through there helicopters.

 

After that the Ghostly images suddenly swirl together and shoot off in all directions. The UNTIL choppers try to follow, but their are only four Choppers and over a dozen images to follow. The team heads in the direction of the closest image and one of the UNTIL Choppers is after that one too. When it reaches the shoreline it forms feet underneath itself and appears solid and starts walking toward Millenium City. Our heroes get close to the area it is, and suddenly it ghosts out and sinks into the Earth. Esperz tries to use her postcognotion by touching the ground it sunk into and feels its presence below the surface, and suddenly a hand breaks the surface grabbing her arm, which causes her touch telepathy to go off.

 

She gets mixed confused feelings from the ghost, and knows he is looking for something. When her mind touched his though it also hit some sort of barrier that caused pain for Esperz, though her own mental shields were enough to block most of it out. The figure then rose from the ground, became solid again, and looked at our heroes and said, "Karma." When our heroes asked what he said, "Take me to her." He emphasized the urgency of this by making a sword appear, and pointing it at the team. The team didn't know what he was talking about, and told him so, which he looked at quizzically. "What is this, don't know?" Esperz then put out her hand and offered to help find Karma, and when he took her hand their mental link became established again. Mentally she tried to question him. It seems this "Karma" is somewhat like a daughter to him, though not just him, but the others as well. When he commented asking what "don't know" is, he truely did not know what it was like to not know something. She got a great deal of confusion from him, and one of the side effects of her powers, the mental sympathy started to becaome apparent. She asked him what Karma looked like, which he responded with the absolute confusion with the idea of what something looks like. She got the feeling Karma wasn't really a name, but more what the person was, and this person who she had contact with, didn't know what identity is, only really the purpose of what something is. As such, Esperz started to lose sense of who she was. Before she started losing herself completely she asked him who he was, to which he responded, "Entropy" This came over stronger than mere contact with his mind did though and she reeled from the assault.

 

This is where Imp ported in to grab her, but Entropy was faster than Imp thought and he flashed out with his sword and sent Imp flying backward, nearly knocking him unconscious. Hi-Tek then leaped in with an blade of his own made of energy, and tried to disarm Entropy, and failed. With their swords still locked, Ki Warrior stepped up and grabbed Esperz and pulled her from Entropy's grasp. dropping her safely on the other side of him. Entropy then lashed out with his sword and caught Ki Warrior unaware and sent him flying as well. In the distance they could see other Entropies now approaching. Esperz, tried to halt any further assaults and offered once more to take his hand. He extended it again, and their link was once again established.

 

This time she tried to probe further, and got a bit more of an impression of what Entropy was. He isn't a he, and Karma is not his, or their daughter, but Entropy seems to be but a thought of a much more powerful entity. Karma is somewhat like a daughter to this Entropy, and that impression filtered down to these thoughts that the group is interacting with. This probing was wearing on Esperz though, and she tried a desperate act to help their lack of communication, she released all her mental shielding, and continued the telepathy in hopes he would then be able to get impressions from her. She took in pain from mentally touching Entropy, this time unshielded, but it seemed to work. Just as they other Entropies were close to reaching the rest of the group, they all stopped. All of there swords disappeared, and they turned insubstantial again and took off into the sky. Hi-Tek went off after them, and returned after they left our atmosphere. By this time the UNTIL copter had finished landing, near our group and troops started to get out to ask questions.

 

This is what happened our first session. We wrapped it there cause it was a good stopping place and one of the group had to go to work in the morning. Right now it is confusing, but as the players learn more I will be able to tell you guys more too, and it should all become clear.

 

Thanks for giving me the time to tell everyone about this, and I hope everyone finds it interesting.

[Willpower]

Time for my second session in the group, This one should be much shorter than the first two about the first session. Took two weeks for the second session, because I was busy last week.

 

Last time we ended with Entropy leaving, and the PC's wondering who Karma was, as Until was disembarking their helicopter. Until tries to surround the group, and tells them to come with them to answer some questions, which the PC's don't want to do so they can get on with finding Karma, who they think is in the hands of Viper. Imp standing besides Esper teleports her away knowing Ki-Warrior can make it on his own. The Until agents shoot at Ki Warrior, but he is too fast and gets away. He calls for a pick up from Fred our VTOL jet's AI. The ship picks him up but is now being chased by an Until Chopper. Fred eventually outmanuevers the Until Chopper and gets away.

 

Eventually everyone gets back to headquarters and away from Until including Hi-Tek who was in orbit when the rest of the group started resisting Until. They tell the Ghost, Mr. Henderson, about what has happened, and try to decide on a course of action, but determine they don't have enough information. They decide that whileKi Warrior is at his day job teaching the next day that HI-Tek, Esper and Imp will go confer with Until to compare note. Mr. Henderson checks with his contacts at Until to make sure they won't get arrested when they show up, and so they go there and try to patch things up from the night before. The get some information for Until but it really isn't very helpful, except that apparently when Until lost the ability to track Karma, they had discovered, that the trail the were tracking was bogus.

 

Esper goes to MCU to update Ki Warrior, and Imp heads to some occult bookstores to try and find information on Karma, and Entropy. He has decided that these beings may be mystical entities, based on the the premise their name describes.

 

Esper meets Ki Warrior and his class, and then afterward she talks briefly with him and they leave. On their way back to the mansion, they see a van driving very eratically, and then it swerves away and smashes into a bank. Four Viper Agents unload and enter the bank, leaving one in the drivers seat. Ki Warrior goes to park his car, inspiring the quote, "Hold them off while I feed the meter!" Then he notices that all the damage done to the van in the accident is fixed.

 

When Esper gets to the bank she overhears an agent shout to the others as he sees her, "We got our target here guys, here it goes." Then he opens the door and shoots at her. A fight ensues, in which a viper agent is knocked out in the first round, though he hasn't been stunned. At the end of the first round they notice that agent is now again conscious. Several rounds go by with the PC's taking out agents and causing damage to their van, and then the agents would get back up, seemingly fully refreshed. One time Esper touched an agent and triggered her touch telepathy getting his surface thoughts, which told her that they were told to make a public robbing of a bank to draw out a super or two, and that Viper's new weapon would make it so they were invincible. They were told that Destiny would be on their side. By this point Esper decided that something was healing the agents as soon as they hurt them.

 

Her and Ki Warrior thought it had something to do with the van, so she tried to read it, but found it a normal van. She wanted to get out of there sensing the fight at this point was an exercise in futility. Ki Warrior on the other hand, had other thoughts. He wanted the Viper agents, who at this point were very confident to think that even though the PC's couldn't beat them, they couldn't beat the PC's either, so he decided to go all defense, and defect all attacks, and reflect what he could. Imp who was notified about the situation at the beginning of the rucus, arrived by this point. and was watching. The leader of the five-team works her find weakness on Ki Warrior, and three of the other agents come out and shoot him while the fifth finishes up inside the bank. He deflects the shots and hits one of the agents, sending him into the van. Imp decides to join in and T-Ports down and pummels the four agents outside the bank, and T-ports back to the roof. The leader agent, seeing what happened to the others wishes she had a better weapon, and within a second her weapon changed to the one she wanted. Imp then T-Ports the van on top of an agents, and Ki Warrior takes the gun away from the leader. Esper scans one deeper to find out where the "weapon" is and finds that they don't know. Next the agents get back up, the leader wishes her gun back, and gets it, and shoots Ki Warrior with a small explosive blast. The agent with the van on him wishes he had the strength to get the van off him and then he starts to lift it, and throws it back where Imp was on the roof nailing him with the same tactic he used. The leader then shouts to the other what she learned, "We get what we wish for guys, so wish whatever you can to get these guys out of here." a second later, Ki Warrior, and Esper was standing in one of Millenium Cities parks over 5 miles away.

 

Imp was the only one there still, probably because of his own teleporting powers, and decided to let them go and tail them from a distance. Which he does, the Viper agents are chased by the police, but shrug them off easier than they did the PC's. Imp tails them to a park which is the park, where they skid to a halt, get out, and abandon the van and teleport away. Leaving Imp to wonder why they even drove away in the first place. He checks out the van,and finds a single $100 with security paint on it, and a note from an unhappy Viper agent that may apparently be a plant from Ghost. It tells them a location that may provide some clues to the whereabouts of Karma.