Whitewings Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Are we sticking to the 72 hour time limit barring requests? I'd prefer a week limit, but I'm not picky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitewings Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Test pilot Elizabeth Peters was thrilled: She was on the Daedelus Project, an experimental X-Prize team. Hundreds of hours in simulators, learning the EOS ship's handling, and now, she was finally in the real cockpit of the real plane, carried into the ionosphere by a giant balloon. As planned, the cradle released her, and she fired the engines to soar up, up, up... up past the point where wings were much more than decoration. And then, the down turn. And disaster. Against all odds, against all probability and reason, a micrometeor hit her fragile craft - and her fragile head, embedding itself in her right temporal lobe, seat of imagination. The ship went down, uncontrolled, for over fifty miles before she could even try to recover. But with no avionics, it was all for naught; she was just payload on an unguided missile. That was when it happened: A pulse of force ripped the plane to shreds, and a new plane appeared around her, a CF-18 Hornet, only where its insignia would have been, there were just patches of deep, glossy green with veins of white, not unlike BC jade. The plane lasted just long enough after landing to be photographed, and perhaps inevitably nicknamed the Green Hornet. Elizabeth has been the subject of intensive testing and careful examination, but so far, nobody has the faintest idea how or why the plane happened, or if it will ever appear again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I'll give the nod to Clonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Next: Gladiator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Weapon Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Next: Gladiator There have been many interstellar observers of human society. Most are merely curious and simply write reports or essays. Some however wanted to create new things based on the ideas a primitive society producers. This was quite sucessful in many ways, but some of the ideas were quite disturbing. Perhaps the most disturbing was the idea of mortal combat between sentients as entertainment. The gladiators were often given armour and weapons modeled on the original roman fighters. This idea was of course made illegal on world after world and participants became harder to come by. Eventually the organisers resorted to kidnapping sentients from primitive planets including earth. To "level the playing field" between species they resorted to cybernetic enhancement, including sophisticated self-repair systems that ironically made people with the lowest life expectancy in the galaxy theorectically immortal. In 19xx a ship full of gladiators made a detour to pick up more fodder from earth, seemingly unaware of the increase in terrestrial capabilities, both technological and metahuman. The abductions were detected traced and the ship stormed and disabled. The abductors almost gained the upper hand by redirecting the main drives gravity field through the ship, which killed most of the crew, prisoners and some of the rescuers. Only the quick thinking and bravery of Giaus Dextrus Claudius (no relation to the imperial roman family) saved the day. Giaus proclaimed that he owes a debt to those superheros who freed him from both physical imprisonment and cybernetic behaviour modifiers and that he will fight for their causes until he thinks it is paid. Several of the heros insisted that turning off the power to the drive that was killing them was sufficent payment. Since thought of his old life as worse than death (and suicide was impossible given his augmentation and the behavioural modifiers they inserted) he doesn't agree. Gaius's english is improving and despite performing valiant service many times calls his debt "a thousanth part paid, if that". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Next: Firestar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) John Wilkins was fascinated with fire from an early age. His parents recognized this early on and decided to help him channel that fascination into socially acceptable ends. Sure enough, after high school John signed up with the city Fire Department and learned the art and science of extinguishing fire and saving the lives of those caught up in it. He found the work highly fulfilling. But then he noticed something peculiar. Crews he was on were putting out fires more quickly than other crews, sometimes in inexplicable ways. His captain decided that John should be examined by the local meta-lab. It turned out that John was an unusual sort of pyrokinetic, whose power was to extinguish flames. The chief of the department wanted to put him on a disability pension on the grounds that meta-psychic powers were too unreliable to be counted upon in an emergency. But the mayor overruled him, and John still serves as a fireman. His face and body concealed by a special fire suit designed by the lab, John has become the nightmare of every arsonist and flame-based villain in town as the first member of Project Firestar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I am wondering how to restart this thread and this game, and bring in some new "players". The last entry was two years ago and there was no judging done. Should I first ask if there is any interest before posting a new name to see what people can do with it, or should I just go ahead and state the next name in hopes that someone starts up and brings a few people with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadk Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I think you should post a new name and then, since I have a reminder for this, I will see it and post to it and then it can start back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I think you should post a new name and then' date=' since I have a reminder for this, I will see it and post to it and then it can start back up.[/quote'] We need to find a way to spread the word so the thread can regain critical mas, so to speak. I think we should also consider going to the Scenes-fro-a-Hat rule of three responses, the winner is chosen, and the winner selects to new name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadk Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) So would it be the first 3 responses posted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) So would it be the first 3 responses posted? That's what I have in mind. Takes off a little of the time pressure, especially starting out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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