Love Child of the Marvel Universe

[Egyptoid]

FIRST ASSIGNMENT as STRIKE-FORCE:THETA

 

Black Panther called for some back-up.

Some middle-eastern idiots backed up by a squad of bricks

had launched a merc. operation into Wakanda, seeking to steal vibranium,

as well as machining or refining tech for vibranium alloys.

 

Our team jetted to Africa, linked up with Panther

and scouted out into the bush to find the bad guys.

 

Bad Guy Roster: (names translated from Arabic)

---- Name, ---- Style, ---- Schtick:

Ennithing, brick, rocky-skinned tanker

Cheap-Sun-Glasses,brick, regen + super-leap

Brutikon,brick, smooth, martial artist

Brick-Wall, brick, ex-dim movements, grappler

Green-Scab,brick, shapeshifter, VPP

Captain France, brick,, flyer and showboat

Tawny Claw, brick, slinky tiger-man with claws

Middle-Eastern Thug leaders

Middle-Eastern Thugs with Ak-97s

Middle-Eastern Wizard

- plus -

Wakandan scientists, mine-workers, and hostages

 

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highlights of the battle:

 

Black Panther sneaks on in to find the leaders.

 

Trap-Door sneaks in to rescue one group of hostages.

PJ speeds in to whisk out the second group of hostages.

Big-Brother drops a force wall on the third hostages.

 

Arbiter buffs up his PRE and makes all the normals pee their pants.

 

Ohm deactivates the claymores guarding the escape routes.

Blokc-house of course charges into combat with the enemy bricks.

 

Citizen Vee lays down covering fire and translates any of the pertinent Arabic the bad guys are speaking.

 

When Blockhouse charged Bruticon, I warned the player he was ready for him.

Block-house charges anyways, and gets martial tossed into the dirt 3 inches.

 

Green-Skab got poisoned by Trap-Door's trank darts.

 

Tawny threatened Arbiter, and got tunneled into the Tomb of Watoom.

 

Cheap-Sunglasses super-leapt onto Block-house, who dodged,

and Black Panther came out of nowhere to skewer him on the downstroke

with his climbing tool. (like pike set to receive charge, eh ?)

 

Ennithing got radically mind-boggled by Big Brother, and spent the rest of the fight shadow-boxing with mirror images.

 

Block-house finally grabs Brutikon, and is only taken out by combined attacks from

Trap-Door's staff,, Ohm's RKA jolt,, and Citizen Vee's Mac-10.

 

Brick-Wall was the tuffy. his idea was to grab you, t-port with you to a pocket dimension,

and beat the pulp out of you in a little private arena, then get your team-mate.

 

Arbiter was able to set up a booby trap for him when he reappeared after one of his ethereal jaunts.

 

now Captain France is a washed out "hero" from the early 80s, picture Fight-Man with a bad accent. He's universally reviled, was deemed a liability by the french govt. and was last seen in Algeria 8 years ago. Now he surfaces as a cheapened merc working for some Middle-Eastern terrorists. He is still however a flying brick, and nobody wanted to take the 28 dice of move-by damage he would inflict. Arbiter took him out with a Comeliness drain followed by the one-two punch from Big-Brother convincing him that his Middle eastern bosses were short-changing him, so he bugged out.

 

All but CF and Brick-Wall were taken into custody.

 

Detective work and comparing notes with a grateful Black-Panther

revealed a trail back to a terror cell in Alexandria Egypt, site of next battle in 2 weeks

 

! EXCELSIOR !

[John Desmarais]

Re: FIRST ASSIGNMENT as STRIKE-FORCE:THETA

 

Middle-Eastern Wizard

Generic mystic baddie, or someone interesting?

[Egyptoid]

Re: FIRST ASSIGNMENT as STRIKE-FORCE:THETA

 

Generic mystic baddie' date=' or someone interesting?[/quote']

 

Generic Idiot with a red fez, mystic foci, and a bad accent.

His PRE was not high enough to resist Arbiter's overwhelmingness.

 

he could Summon Giant Ants, Entangling Trip Attack

[Egyptoid]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

from June 12th.

 

Arbiter goes to Richmond, to visit a used bookstore

that has some egyptian texts he'll need for the coming weeks.

 

gun shots and a crash ruin his reverie, he comes to

the street to find 2 girls wrecked on their fore-runners,

3 men nearby cut down with chem grenades, and

agents with guns holed up in a nearby house.

 

Villains inside the building:

WHITE_HALL a scientist with Mutant Insect and mental powers.

Dr.COLE another scientist working with stolen Pym-style insect equipment.

CHITINOID an insectoid demon from lower realms.

the ZAPP BROTHERS, a pair of minor beetle-powered villains.

and a horde of bug-based agents with a hive mind.

 

Arbiter risks the gun fire to rescue the hostages and victims,

and PIFFS them off to SF:Theta HQ. They need medical attention.

Quickly the team saddles up and teleports back to Richmond.

 

SWAT teams and hostage neg. cops have set up in the area.

 

PJ recons the building and sees no current hostages.

Arbiter recons the building astrally and notes the grody tunnel complexes beneath the area, crawling with bugs and bug-agents.

 

Trap-Door sneaks invisibly in to attempt rescues.

 

Big Brother starts working on the scientists making the demands.

 

Block-House waits for someone to punch.

 

Ohm fails his ego defense and gets ordered to advance and start blasting.

 

now the battle begins in earnest, and the teleporting CHITINOID takes new hostages via teleportation.

 

Block-house gets repeatedly entangled but manages to smack down several bad guys.

 

Ohm shoots holes in the building.

 

PJ rescues the current hostages and fouls some agent guns.

 

Big Brother scares away the bug scientist WHITEHALL

 

Trapdoor gets PRE drained by bug juice to -7 PRE,

then gets skeered away buy the CHITINOID at 60 PRE, not a pretty fate.

 

finally all bad guys are downed, but no-one knows why the incident started in the first place.

 

later the girls were revealed to be minor mutants, and their playing with their powers on the street annoyed the demon till he went berzerk.

the operation would have been a total secret except for their interference.

 

COLE had worked (its short for coleoptera) for STARK, STANE and USGOV before, he was an amoral scientist who would work for anyone.

but the worst revelation came from the agents guns: made by AIM.

 

so AIM or one of its associates is on the power tree somewhere.

 

...and reporters were filming the entire scene...

[cturnitsa]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

Parents: Hella and Hawkeye

 

The Black Arrow - Archer of Death

[cturnitsa]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

Parents: Hella and Hawkeye

 

The Black Arrow - Archer of Death

 

 

Good thing this sort of loser isn't allowed anywhere NEAR Neptune City.

[Egyptoid]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

from June 19th.

 

OHM has fallen in battle, succumbing to wounds inflicted by giant ants.

His essence was gathered and put into a special battery on the team van.

 

ARBITER has teleported 2 insectoid agents to "Apshai's Realm"

which is just one of the 666 layers of hell.

 

He doesnt show up or make contact for 3 days, so the team asks

Dr. Strange for help. He's busy so he sends Rintrah to their aid.

 

Ant-Man arrives from the Avengers to assist.

 

Members present:

TRAP_DOOR, BIG_BROTHER, ANT_MAN, RINTRAH, PYTHAGORAS

 

Rintrah takes them to a local cross-roads at midnight.

Casts a spell to take them to the lower planes.

 

They arrive standing on a large wide road. its covered with little pavers.

And it stretches out across a wide lifeless plain for miles and miles.

The pavers are inscribed in thousands of different languages.

Finally they find some written in English:

 

"Gonna call Mom on Mother's Day."

"Meant to put road-flares in the car."

"Just 2 drinks then we go right home."

 

There's millions of the pavers, and the highway is long and wide.

 

They set off down the road, and are attacked by elemental demons of various sorts.

 

Finally the road runs right through 2 egyptian statues.

on the player's side is the road and the deserted plain.

 

On the other side of the statues is lush savannah, teeming with bugs,

and the border between the 2 areas is harshly delineated. A force field separates the 2 geographies.

 

Ant-Man and Rintrah figure out the logic puzzle, and get through,

calling to the others to come along, its possible with the right frame of mind.

 

Finally Trap-Door, then PJ, then Big Brother come along through.

 

the difference in the places is like night and day. the desert was cool, quiet, and dead.

the realm is hot, sticky, and crawling.

 

Finally inside they encounter Arbiter, rescued the 2 agents, scared off Castle-Wall,

avoid the Gorillon, and use PJs new "way-home" power to get out alive.

 

[Egyptoid]

From June 26th

 

Our heroes are having a relaxing day at the beach.

 

Citizen Vee said "get out, have some fun"

no-one was going to go until Hurricane Tana said she was going to sunbathe.

buncha pigs.

 

so at the secluded beach a govt. van pulls up.

an agent, a medic, and a SWAT member stroll up to the heroes.

 

they want to see BLOCKHOUSE.

they want to take him downtown for some questioning

regarding the property damage and lives lost in Richmond.

 

and they want to cuff him and sedate him for the ride there,

since he is so dangerous.

 

TRAP-DOOR's danger sense makes him explode in anger,

and he punches the paramedic as she tries to get the needle

into BLOCKHOUSE's skin.

 

so a fight starts.

 

BLOCK-HOUSE was going to go along peacefully (never will know why)

 

turns out the van had FREEDOM FORCE in it.

 

HEROES:

PYTHAGORAS

ARBITER

DEATH-ARCHER plus the two nitnoids above.

HURRICANE TANA

REVISION

 

OPPONENTS:

PARAMEDIC (turns out to be Mystique)

PW AGENT (turns out to be a Dog Soldier)

SWAT TEAM

DESTINY

BLOB

PYRO

VERTIGO

AVALANCHE

 

ARBITER erects a force field and summons nereids from the beach.

 

TRAPDOOR fights BLOB.

 

TANA blows down Pyro the entire battle. (no one wants 20d6 fore blast)

 

PJ gets the teams foci from off table.

 

BLOCKHOUSE got pummeled by machine gun fire. (Mac-10!)

 

DEATH ARCHER punks gas onto VERTIGO and DESTINY.

 

OHM's new body and powers earned him a new name: REVISION

(since he is now a synthezoid, with a human consciousness)

 

Freedom Force was defeated but just barely.

FF is the govt. super team. but they may have been up to no good.

their boss talked to Citizen Vee, and things were smoothed out.

[Egyptoid]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

from July 3rd:

 

Heroes fly the strike jet to Egypt to investigate the leads from the

terrorists who attacked Wakanda a few days ago.

 

they run into a group of insectoid agents again,

bee & hornet & yellowjacket styled to be specific.

 

big fight: 2 Aerial Princesses, 1 Ground Princess

and 5 squads of ground agents and 2 squads of aerial agents.

 

Big Brother used mental illusions to cause agents to shoot their own princesses.

 

Arbiter summoned air spirits of scirocco to ground the aerial enemies.

 

Trap-Door snuck inand webbed over the queen bee.

 

PJ used his new arrows of apollo to flash groups of agents.

 

Revision and Block-house clocked beaucoup agents.

 

There was a large cavernous "hive" under the desert outside Alexandria.

they freed the bee spirits (asian bestiary ) there that the terrorists

were using to power their attack suits.

 

Apparently the bad guys were building an energy collector

to house the mojo that was being stolen from various supers.

[Egyptoid]

Re: Love Child of the Marvel Universe

 

from July 10th:

 

As the heroes clean up the fight scene in the deserts outside Alexandria Egypt,

they are accosted by HYDRA agents in complex flight suits.

 

Overhead the buzzing of a HYDRA heli-carrier drones.

 

They are bombarded, shot, and entangled by waves of agents.

 

Worst of all, there's a telepath in the carrier zapping the team with

TK and mental bolts, armor-piercing.

 

BIG BROTHER sets up the mind link with the Ment-Def option for everyone.

 

TRAP-DOOR glues down the aerial agents.

 

P-J sweeps down agents by the truck-load.

 

ARBITER uses force walls to great advantage.

 

BLACK-ARROW uses flash-bang arrows, gas-arrows etc. to down the agents.

 

REVISION trys to take the battle to the heli-carrier.

 

BLOCK-HOUSE repeatedly smashes agents of course.

 

finally BLACK-ARROW attaches a line to the bottom of the heli-carrier.

its 100 hexes up in the air.

 

the telepath on board is MODOK, and he's raging mad because the heroes

broke the HIVE's energy collector. so SF-T finds out that they actually

solved the adventure last week when they broke it.

 

on board the carrier is the tank containing all the stolen mojo.

they take the fight to the carrier and smash that vat.

 

As ARBITER attempts to teleport out of his entanglements,

he botches the magic check and slides the entire megascale hex into the astral plane.

 

NEXT ADVENTURE:

how do we get home....