WWYCD? Women City Savers Only

[Hermit]

Inspired by the "Kids stuff" episode of JLU, with a different twist.

 

An evil sorceress gets pissed, and casts one heck of a spell on a city, one that banishes all males from Campaign City, and blocking them by an impenetrable (Affects Desolid, Protected against Teleporation, more DEF than you can do body that...see GM plot device) Forcewall all around it that women can just walk in and out of along with whatever they are carrying. All else is blocked.

 

What's more, this sorceress has a pretty sizable group of supervillainesses working with her inside there, acting as her enforcers to protect both the sorceress and whatever magic item is fueling this spell.

 

Naturally, it will be up to the superheroines (Be they PC or NPC) to go in and save the day while the boys twiddle their thumbs...

But...

One retired mystic on the outside says he knows a ritual that will turn men into women (right down to the cell structure) for a full week (and won't end till then). That should provide plenty of time to go in, help save the day, and so forth. There are...side effects. Since magic is often sensitive to the power of belief, both popular concepts of femininity and the superhero's own personal views may influence his...soon to possibly be her behavior slightly. Costumes will magically shift to fit etc etc.

 

So, would your male characters spend a week as a woman so they could save the day? Or stay outside and wait it out while doing what they could beyond the city limits? How would the 'side effects' influence them, and after it was done, would they reconsider any biases they had within they may not have known about, just be glad it was over or what?

 

Would your female characters assure the mystic that the ladies had it covered and didn't need the help (A reasonable assumption, Wonder Woman doesn't sit back and wait for superman to take out the trash, she does it herself)? Or welcome it, and then be tickled, sympathetic, etc? Would they take pictures for blackmail material?

 

Obviously, this won't apply to some characters period. Shapeshifters who can change gender, or those who have VPPs will probably not need the mystic already having more effective means.

[Alverant]

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So what happens if a woman is pregnant with a boy? Will the fetus be banished or will it happen during/after birth?

 

How would aliens be affected?

[Hermit]

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So what happens if a woman is pregnant with a boy? Will the fetus be banished or will it happen during/after birth?

 

How would aliens be affected?

 

How many aliens pregnant with male fetuses do people play? Jk

 

Let's assume the spell either whisks pregnant women outside the barrier as well if the fetus is male, or ... the mother shields the child from the spell and the kid will be fine until delivered and the cord is cut.

 

As for Aliens, it depends. If the species has a definite female gender, then that change would be required. If it doesn't, then they are probably blocked (being part of "all else.")

 

Oh, in case it needs be said, no, a gal can't simply carry a guy across the threshold as if he were carry on luggage.

[Korvar]

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To be honest, some of my characters (and, indeed, I) would be more "Be a woman for a week? That sounds really interesting! ....oh, and saving the world, that too..."

[Lord Mhoram]

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Well the female characters would just go kick butt.

 

By description, the field blocks males, rather than allows females, so Meeb could go in with no difficulty (the character reproduces by mitosis, so no gender chromosomes anyway) se he wouldn't ahve any problems.

 

Smokeater would have no problems at all.

 

Terminal Velocity would thing it interesting, but likely be a little weirded out by the whole thing.

 

Ballisitc would be stuck, unless his powered armor could have alterations to fit his new physiology. But he would have no problems. He likely wouldn't even get out of his powered armor.

[Hermit]

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To be honest' date=' some of my characters (and, indeed, I) would be more "Be a woman for a week? That sounds really interesting! ....oh, and saving the world, that too..."[/quote']

 

Nothing wrong with that.

[Clonus]

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Hellfire will be very uncomfortable with the object of her affection becoming a girl. She wouldn't even be able to look at her for the duration of the spell.

 

Riptide will be sure to try out sex that way. And make sure to take pictures because he's a narcissist.

 

The Wizard of Oz Incorporated won't bother. He'll use telepresence to assist from outside the city.

[Kirby]

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An evil sorceress gets pissed' date=' and casts one heck of a spell on a city, one that banishes all males from Campaign City, and blocking them by an impenetrable (Affects Desolid, Protected against Teleporation, more DEF than you can do body that...see GM plot device).[/quote']It's an OIPD, Obvious Inaccessible Plot Device.

 

So' date=' would your male characters spend a week as a woman so they could save the day? Or stay outside and wait it out while doing what they could beyond the city limits? How would the 'side effects' influence them, and after it was done, would they reconsider any biases they had within they may not have known about, just be glad it was over or what?[/quote']Duo: He would accept the offer, if nothing more than curiousity about the opposite sex. Unfortunately, he'd probably spend the first day or two staring at "herself" in the mirror, exploring and experimenting. Outside intervention could cause him to snap out of it and try to help save the day. "But I've got all week."

 

Foxbatboy: At 5'1" and 200 lbs of overweightedness (Copyrighted, Steven Colbert, my rates are reasonable), he'd probably either let the ladies handle it (and watch from a distance), or if he felt there was a MASTER PLAN stirring, he might agree but get sidetracked going into public restrooms. At his height and weight, he wouldn't exactly be pretty.

 

Would your female characters assure the mystic that the ladies had it covered and didn't need the help (A reasonable assumption' date=' Wonder Woman doesn't sit back and wait for superman to take out the trash, she does it herself)? Or welcome it, and then be tickled, sympathetic, etc? Would they take pictures for blackmail material? [/quote']Juggernaut: She'd say the ladies could handle it. With Psych lims of Stubborn, Supreme Confidence, and Thrill Seeker, it'd take a lot (including one heck of a roll) to ask for help from "the guys."

 

Should one of the guys happen to make the transformation anyway, she'd definitely want to take pictures.

[sinanju]

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Hell's Angel would go about fighting the bad guys--uh, girls--as usual. Ditto for Cassandra.

 

Power Man would have a dilemma. See "Power Man" is actually millionaire industrialist Derek Wright...who is actually a woman (Leah Wright) wearing an exo-droid* that makes her look like a man. She could stroll right through the barrier with no problem--but that would raise awkward questions, as would submitting to the gender-changing spell. Power Man would just stay out of sight, busy handling other crises. Yeah, that's it.

 

*A concept stolen from the novel Man-Fac by Martin Caiden (same guy who wrote the novel Cyborg, about Steve Austin). Hey, if comic book scientists can make robots nobody can tell from real people, why not build powered armor that makes you look like a brick instead of a guy in armor? Then you can--if you're Leah Wright--get the fame and fortune you so richly deserve but have been denied solely due to your gender...and also act like an unrepentant male chauvinist in your alter ego, because you're just behaving "like a man would."

 

Yes, Leah has...issues.

[hfergus]

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Olorin, my mad mage could be the mystic mentioned. Being a woman? "Been there, done that, no problem doing that again." And he could be a woman while looking like a man, and help others do the same. Easy solution.

 

Volt would go "Oh my." and do it even if the disguise could not be done. He has a responsibilty of power issue.

 

The group has two women, and both would not wait, but one would need assurance, since she has "insecure about being a super" disad. (Needs help figuring out what to do sometimes.) The experienced hero is Volt or Olorin, the rest are fairly new. No blackmail pictures would be taken, and blackmail would not work anyway.

 

Gem, a female, is in a power suit that hides gender (voice too) and is normally assumed to be male. Not a deep secret, but she likes the mystery. She'd say "Oh crud, the secret's out!")

 

Black tiger would go "Oh ****!" and do it, disguise or not.

[McCoy]

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Iron Will I'm a prepubescent quadroplegic. I'm not exactly writing my name in the snow now. Male or female, what's the difference? Go for it!

 

Millennium and Dolphin will do the switch to rescue the city.

 

Cheeta After the week is up, this NEVER happened! Everyone understand?

[Zed-F]

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Soulbarb is already a woman, and not particularly hung up on sex/gender issues to begin with. If Nocturne were there and wanted to take the plunge, she wouldn't give him grief about it, though she would find the situation more than a little weird.

 

Sylph also is already a woman, and would do her bit to help, but would be quite sensitive and empathetic to the plight of any male heroes who happened to agree to the gender change ritual. She would feel a certain amount of embarrassment by proxy. Things could get a little weird (and wild in bed) for Alaric if he happened to agree to the ritual... but not really any moreso than normal, considering Magnesia's likely around.

[Kevin Schultz]

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Jake the Troll - no problem whatsoever - he's a trollknor part of the time, anyway and could potentially be the mystic flipping the gender switch on the other heroes, if he could figure out how he does it to himself. But then he'd start doing it as a party trick, so maybe that wouldn't be such a good idea...Would give any superhero who went through the change grief about it, but only to ask to do stereotypically girlie things.

 

Icon - Assuming it wouldn't take long, Emma would wait for the guys, as it's better to go in with more force than with less. She'd probably do recon with the other gals from Argus High, as information is important to have before planning a strike. In all, she'd probably take it in stride as "just one of those things" that (soon-to-be) professional superheroes have to deal with at least once in their careers. And yes, she'd take pictures, as at least one of the guys on the team is pretty quietly sexist in a "son of an evil overlord" sort of way.

 

Shinji Miromoto - is a sorcerer, but his schtick doesn't come anywhere NEAR shapeshifting - it's more like something the fey would do, but he only hung around with them for a season or so. But, assuming it was quick and wouldn't mess up his own mana flows, he'd go through with it. Knowing his own feelings on magical girls though, he'd probably end up as some sort of "Dark Princess Kimiko", and would tend to pose dramatically while wearing some sort of stylized schoolgirl outfit. (Much to his later chagrin.)

 

Widower - Like Emma, John would consider this "just another superhero thing", but he'd see it as something funny and kinda sexy when done to a comic book character (he's a fan), but really embarassing when actually put into practice on yourself. But he'd go through with it, as it really isn't a sacrifice in the long run. He'd also be hit with something of a personality change, although due mostly due to the fact that he would likely appear to be an extremely athletic version of his youngest (deceased) daughter, and would probably take the manerisms of her. As a consequence of THAT, he'd probalby end up taking pictures of (her)self, as he has no photographs of his family, and a crummy substitute is better than no substitute.

[Powerhouse]

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Here's hoping this city in question is LA, where then Angels (an all female team) calls home! Between them, hometown avenger Angel of the Night, and Star Knight (she lives in San Francisco), this wizardress would be in BIG trouble!

[Wormhole]

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What about the digitized consciousness of a human male scientist who can control any one of a small selection of combat robots and androids at any given time (usually all males, but he decides to construct a female avatar from scratch just for this particular occasion)?

[Lord Mhoram]

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*A concept stolen from the novel Man-Fac by Martin Caiden (same guy who wrote the novel Cyborg, about Steve Austin).

 

Yes, Leah has...issues.

 

Did she have a mountain fall on her too?

 

Big fan of the book.

[Pariah]

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Jack Diamond wouldn't have that big a problem with it. He had cosmetic and pyschic surgery once to infiltrate a villain group. This is just another disguise, right?

 

Pariah (with an INT roll) remembers that his old Order had a spell for this kind of transformation. Once he figures it out, he's in.

 

Thunderstrike is a little weirded out by the idea of becoming a woman, even for a short period of time. Given that his role models are Black Cat and Gibraltar, there's a part of him that thinks being a superheroine means being aggressive, domineering, and/or cranky all the time. Can you blame him for being hesitant?

 

Wild Card dives right in. He's got 3d6 of Luck, what's the worst that could happen?

 

Onyx looks at it as a research opportunity. Not only does he get to beat up a new group of villains, he gets to see the entire experience from an entirely different point of view. He'll probably take notes along the way and spend two full days afterward writing it up.

 

Fang has no problems with it. He's been living as a reluctant werewolf for the past several years, so he's already got the whole moon cycle thing down.

 

Magnetite, Amethyst, Morningstar, and ColdFire, already being female, proceed to move in and start kicking butt. ColdFire really hopes that fetus she's carrying won't be a problem....

[Kirby]

You know you're an RPG geek when...

 

An evil sorceress gets pissed, and casts one heck of a spell on a city, one that banishes all males from Campaign City, and blocking them by an impenetrable (Affects Desolid, Protected against Teleporation, more DEF than you can do body that...see GM plot device) Forcewall all around it that women can just walk in and out of along with whatever they are carrying. All else is blocked.

 

[...]

 

So, would your male characters spend a week as a woman so they could save the day?

So what happens if a woman is pregnant with a boy? Will the fetus be banished or will it happen during/after birth?

 

How would aliens be affected?

What about the digitized consciousness of a human male scientist who can control any one of a small selection of combat robots and androids at any given time (usually all males' date=' but he decides to construct a female avatar from scratch just for this particular occasion)?[/quote']They say "the devil is in the details," but really, it's just geekdom.

[Kirby]

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Wild Card dives right in. He's got 3d6 of Luck' date=' what's the worst that could happen?[/quote']A menstrual cycle?

 

"Gosh Wild Card, if you hadn't bent over with those cramps right then, that death ray would have killed you!"

[Brandi]

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Irving is a statue that looks male, but would he really be male for the purposes of the field? (It's mystical, rather than some sort of super-tech bioscanner, so... maybe). If he *can* go through the field, he'll help to the best of his abilities, and maybe spend some off-time pondering the implications.

[Brandi]

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A menstrual cycle?

 

How about the Pangs of Ulster?

[Steel Legs]

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Wow, I haven't played a male charrie in halfway to forever. An' he was a strutting, bragging, posing MCP. He'd NEVER let that happen to him! I mean, he wouldn't like say "Oh no, not cooties!" but that's what he'd be thinking even if in different words.

 

The team I'm in is all women, so it wouldn't come up. Fun idea tho, thanks for telling us it.

[sinanju]

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Did she have a mountain fall on her too?

 

Big fan of the book.

 

Nope, no mountain. She just concluded that as a woman she'd never get the respect her genius deserved--so she created the exo-droid so she could pretend to be a man.

 

Yeah, I like that book too.

[Arkham]

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Bingo would hop on in. But no funny business, this is serious work. Even for a mystically trans-gendered clown.

 

Satire would be reluctant, but would go with it to save the day. But spend the rest of the week keeping people from seeing him. And anyone taking pictures gets a broken camera and bloodied nose...

 

Senor Mysterio would refuse. His machismo wouldn't allow it. But he respects the skills of the Luchadoras ( and exoticas ) enough to get the job done without him.

 

Javaman would go in, thinking he could spend the rest of the week with 'himself', but then it'd turn awkward as Fidgit went too. There'd be a lot of 'Dude, don't look at me' and gay jokes.

[Pariah]

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A menstrual cycle?

 

"Gosh Wild Card, if you hadn't bent over with those cramps right then, that death ray would have killed you!"

Yeah, that's pretty much how it'd work.

 

Rep for the laugh, by the way.