[Plot—Supers] Stalker Ideas Needed

S7Michelle · March 17, 2007

My players, please don’t read this thread.

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Yes, I know it’s tempting, but surprises are fun too you know.

A player in my superheroes game has requested that her character be given a stalker. She has described the type of stalker she wants as a little bit scary, but cool, and with possible romantic overtones. The description has me thinking she wants something like Lotor from the Voltron Series.

The setting is one where approximately one in one hundred people have some sort of mutant ability, though most have minor and or non-combat abilities. The PCs are moderately powerful and work for the city government of Denver as the Denver superhero team. The tone is primarily silver age.

The PC in question is playing a mentalist named Asia. Prior to gaining her powers, Asia had lived in Japan and was being trained as a Geisha. She gained her powers after her virginity had been sold (at a higher than average price) but before the contract could be fulfilled. Asia would have been more than willing to fulfill the contract and was perfectly happy being a geisha, but as a side effect of gaining her powers, she gained an unusual and occasionally disturbing marking on her face. Her geisha house reacted badly, kicking her out and leaving the contract unfulfilled. Asia still has an incredibly low self esteem and is convinced she is ugly, though she really is quite beautiful. The player has also mentioned more than once that she’d like for the person who bought her virginity to come looking for her. So I’ve decided to combine the two and have the stalker be the person who had bought her virginity back in Japan and who is rather upset about the fact that he didn’t receive it.

I’ve already decided that the stalker has mirror related powers which includes the ability to teleport between mirrors, to use mirrors as scrying devices, and access to a mirror realm. I’ve not yet determined the full extent of his powers or provided him with a name. I’m thinking that he probably sells his abilities as a mercenary and possibly as an assassin.

So far he has done the following:

1. Given Asia an attractive antique mirror, which was specially prepared to enable him to use it to enter her room/the base and get around the protections in place. (The PC currently doesn’t have any suspicions about the mirror at all.)

2. Watched Asia though various mirrors, leaving her with a feeling of being watched and occasionally triggering her danger sense.

3. When Asia was astral projecting, caused her to end up in the mirror realm rather than where she was actually going. She eventually made her way out through the mirror he gave her. Dealing with all the mirrors upset the character quite a bit, since she has major self image issues. (The PC doesn’t realize the stalker was responsible for this)

4. Entered her room, via the mirror, and covered her bed with dark crimson rose petals. He didn’t trigger any of the base security devices while doing so. (The PCs rooms have less monitoring and no cameras in them).

Ultimately, he will probably end up kidnapping her leading to scenes where she gets to talk/reason with him and a scene where her PC boyfriend rescues her. (I’m fairly certain she’d prefer to be rescued than to rescue herself.)

But I’d like to build a bit more suspense and have a bit more happen before the kidnapping and would appreciate ideas and suggestions. One of the main problems is that Asia is a very good mentalist and is able to use psychometry on objects, and places. So far, I’ve been lucky, her dice have rolled badly for all of her attempts to track the stalker. But, I don’t expect for her to keep failing rolls in the future.

Any other suggestions about how to make the stalker more interesting, what the story climax should be, etc. are welcome as well.

Checkmate · March 17, 2007