Marvel Galaxies

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GAME WEEK FIVE: Star Fox, High Evo, Kisa AQM, and Hercules participating

 

The Seekers finish negotiating with Box,

and take the adamant lab equipment from the Canada base in pieces.

 

back at the Egyptian base,

the team is accosted by a Moloid diplomat

He offers them rare crystals, metallic ores,

and other treasures of the deep world.

The players politely decline, realizing that

there will always be strings attached.

Plus they seem to learn that the Moloid Realm

is not as unscathed as they were led to believe

from the Apoc. Wars.

 

 

news from Rocket Raccoon!

Adam Warlock has been sighted! and that's a good good thing.

Nova also came out to meet the Skrulls at Battleworld,

thus honoring the old Earth-Xandar alliance, even if Earth

isnt exactly still in the game.

Star Fox gives his weekly radio address, reassuring the masses,

plus he's upgraded his satellite equipment, so there's even better coverage.

 

then he goes to the men's room.

Over-Skrull* and 12 Skrull Commandoes have infiltrated the base.

and they clobber Starfox from surprise.

 

Huge battle trashes great sections of the Egyptian Base.

Eventually all Skrulls were killed, and Over-Skrull beaten to a regen. paste.

 

PLUS: Kisa Ariah Mephitina aka Quasar, Aka Catgirl, got rooked.

yes its true the GM screwed up. She had manifested her Hippo power,

and it was dancing on Over-Skrull, attempting to mash him into the deck,

when Over-Skrull jetted about 16 hexes away.

Well the Hippo is autofire can continuous, it should have lumbered over

to his new location and attempted to dance on him again,

all she had to do was make the new hit roll, and the damage continues,

but we all forgot and the hippo just sat there glumly, smashing no-one.

 

There was a little blue alien cooperating with the Skrulls,

and he was crawling in and out of the Hi Evo's machinery.

the team had to cooperate to rescue the little guy from Skrull domination.

They named him Kwertie, and he a Blue Zenad, from the Verge Galaxy.

 

He's a mechanically inclined, silicon based life-form, and the Skrulls had been using him as an enslaved science officer.

 

met African Hero Crash

 

 

still Silver Surfer holds Galactus at Bay, who has not approached Earth.

 

The Sphinx Activates. who will protect the northern Nile.

 

 

TRANSMISSION ENDS

 

 

* Over-Skrull is a super-being, empowered similarly to the Super-Skrull, but he has powers derived from the

Shiar

Imperial Guard

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GAME WEEK SIX:

Star Fox, High Evo, and Kisa AQMparticipating

Guest Star: Crash

 

Our heroes made a list of ten hotspots to investigate before they can call the Earth "pacified" . This weeks choice, CHINA. They surveyed the post-apocalyptic wreck where the P.R.China used to be, and found a scraped over, bombed out hell-scape. Only 2 spots seemed to show any civilization, namely Shang-Hai and Taiwan. Both sites scanned the Wunda-Hawk, and they had to guess which one to investigate first.

 

Shang-Hai was run by somebody good with nuclear power, and Taiwan was run by some loud-mouthed old Communist. (what little civ. there is on Earth is warloard style feudalism) so the PCs took a gamble and decided to visit Nuke-land first. Turns out the place was run by Chen-Lu, the Radioactive Man. He received the heroes cordially enough, but came across as aloof and highly skeptical of their efforts. No matter, the Hi Evo still gave him a GEC, but as they're negotiating, a troop-carrying gunship sails over the horizon, and drops a missile on the meeting.

 

Of course this is Mister Man-Chu, the blowhard of Taiwan, and he shows up accusing Chen-Lu of "betraying China", and "consorting with known Avengers." Well, Man-Chu has loyal agents, and so does Chen-Lu, and the PCs are now stuck in the middle of a land war in Asia, and they're dropping nasty attacks on each other.

 

Finally the impromptu team-up of the PCs and Radioactive Man overcomes all of Mister Man-chu's forces, and the celecration begins. But not so fast, if they kill Man-Chu, that makes a power vacuum, so the PCs let him live, but Starfox and Hi Evo work him over, changing his vast hatreds into "truth, justice and the Chinese way".

 

Now Hi Evo takes one of the main battle tanks and re-wires it to be a proto-type terrain cleaning vehicle. Well during its test run, it accidentally digs up a concrete block out of an old graveyard, and who should slither up out of the coffin but Morbius the Living Vampire. turns out he had been trapped there years ago when he lost a bad fight with Collective Man. Through Morbius they learn that Doc Strange is truly dead and gone from this dimension and the mantle of Sorc.Supreme has been given to another. But he was grateful for the release, and is now a contact. Morbius flew off towards NYC...

 

So they've helped the planet on this side, earn R-Man as a contact,, and a truce with Mr.M-Chu, plus Morbius, and they turn around to go back to base. Time to chill out on the veranda right? Wrong, when they get back to Aswan Base, there's a message for Kisa, from an unknown source. Its a video-taped personalized invite from the Collector, he'd like Kisa to be on his staff at his museum worlds in the Verge Galaxy. She's given 6 months to report there, which due to travel time only leaves her about 2 weeks to decide. Their 1st theory is that he's after the Quantum Bands, but he's not an idiot, the Bands would never serve him and would actively try to leave him. No, they figure he's after Kisa AQM herself, because she's unique like Spock was in Star Trek, a one-of-a-kind half breed of 2 strong races. So that left everyone in a good mood as the week ended.

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game canceled this week due to Cosmic Backdraft

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GALAXIES WEEK SEVEN

SEEKERS PARTICIPATING

Kisa Ariah - the

Quasar

Hercules

Unbound

Star-Fox

Magnificat

High

Evolutionary

and

Mister

Magnetix

The Seekers travelled to Norway to investigate huge amounts of energy

being expended up there, along with what the sensors described as

"earth-moving equipment" . You see, on the post-apocalyptic earth,

anything major going on needs to be at least observed, if not squashed,

since no-one wants Apocalypse or his ilk to rise again.

 

They fly down and find what appears to be an ancient black basalt castle,

crude but gothic styled, standing in the middle of several hundred acres of

cleaned-up territory. Strangely, their shuttle is struck by lightning, and

Terran Marines come out of the castle to assault the heroes.

 

Pictured below you see a KORG, an alien race that fought THOR way back when. It appears they have returned to earth, trying to find easy pickings since there's a dearth of superheroes these days. They are earth-magic based critters, but thematically they belong in a world of war craft, plus they take slaves. So a unanimous vote came in favor of banishing them or exterminating them. Hercules tunneled into the castle and shock-waved it into collapse. High Evo traded shots with the Korg magicians and destroyed all the foci of the guards. Kisa scouted for everyone, clobbered Heverjenti with the Hippo, and discovered to her dismay that her constructs can be dispelled by skilled energy projectors. Starfox "convinced" many of the Korg to flee, but not until after he had been shot in the face again. His Katana Girls also made a good showing, and pinned down the Korg runt named Outback with their shuriken. During the fight, a one-eyed man with green hair climbed out of the wreckage, but he seemed familiar, and spoke english, so he was not attacked, he introduced himself as Mr. Magnetix; the son of Lorna Dane and Alex Summers.

 

Heverjenti was a Minor Norwegian supervillain who had traitorously sided with the Korg for survival reasons. she was taken pprisoner back to Aswan.

 

Mr. Mags was welcomed as a Seeker, and he had been used as a power battery by the Korg for their earth-rituals.

 

During the post-fight discussion it was realized that Rocket Raccoon should be sent to Tau Ceti, since the Canadian Survivors there might want to go live at the new base at Alkali Lake established last month.

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Galaxies Week Eight

=============== Participants: Kisa Ariah and Hercules

High Evolutionary is Revamping the Aswan base, and working on the Earth Cleansing System.

 

Starfox went on a secret mission to do some negotiating, and then if he lives through that, bring some refugees from Tau Ceti that want to come home to Earth.

 

Mister Magnetix is in training at Aswan Base.

 

Well this week was the Kisa Ariah Mephitina de Quasar Show,

starring Kisa Ariah Mephitina

 

Miss Kisa explored new powers, learned how to drive the shuttle better, talked on the radio a lot with Rocket Raccoon, and took some on-line courses at Aswan Tech.

 

She can now summon Swarms of Killer Bees, A killer Grizzly, a Swarm of Web-Spinners, a Rogue Bull Elepehant, and Swarms of Poison Spiders as well as her usual gauntlet of 12 totemic powers.

 

Kisa used her Pigeon Power for the first time, to send a politely worded rebuff to the Collector regarding his offer of employment. She sent the poor little bird off 3 times, recalling it twice to reword and soften the message, deciding to actually be diplomatic to an Elder of the Universe. There was no obvious reaction or reply as of yet.

 

 

Hercules Activated the Sphinx: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzqpmkt_398gbzbc4dv

[Egyptoid]

Stay tuned

 

GALAXIES WEAK EIGHT

 

 

Only Miss Kisa Showed up this week, along with a tired and sweaty Hercules.

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Great writeups everyone !

[Egyptoid]

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Full house Finally: STARFOX, HIGH EVO, HERCULES, Mr.MAGNETIX, KISA de QUASAR all there.

 

in one-shot special, StarFox jets off without the team with Akani of the Katana Girls to post-apocalyptic San Francisco, just to settle a bet. They want to look though the wreckage of the old emporium in China-Town where the Katana Girls used to hang out. If the Black-Box is still intact, it may contain data from before the Apocalypse War. They run into a local rad-shaman, who has a beautiful girl hostage. But while they investigate him, they are blindsided by Tombstone, who in this future, is more truly undead and has some necro-mental powers. StarFox and Akani eventually defeat him. The shaman and hostage ran from the fight. Tombstone is slowly regenerating, so they take him up into orbit and toss his body out the airlock towards the sun. They recover the black box and take it back to High Evo so he can decode.

 

 

High Evo botches the computer job and the data decoding. Frustrated, he just TRANSFORMS the box into a sub-module of the base computer, so that anyone can look at the data. The goal was to look at the security camera footage, which was all encoded somewhere in the memory of the black box, which fortunately the High Evo did not erase in his bungling, rare as it is he fumbles skill checks. Most of the recordings are boring day to day transactions, but then at the end, during the Apocalypse war, the team sees specifics they did not gather during their earlier investigations. Apparently one of the great fighters towards the end of Apoc. was an aerial hero called Dragon-Fly, who was a well-built handsome man with large dragon wings, and a familiar face.

 

This stuns the Seekers team into silence. This implies they are on Earth-7712 instead of their home timeline.

 

Their studies are interrupted. the Fallen One attacks, out of the clear blue sky. Eventually he's defeated. There's unidentified energy on the Fallen One, and the High Evo does retro-cognition on his body to find out where it came from. They get interesting info from that, but the odd thing is they here a voice from the past, its male, with a Jamaican accent, and its reciting crude magickal litanies. Only one person fits that description, and its Brother Voodoo.

 

Fallen One was sent in revenge for meddling with Brother Voodoo's other servant, Tombstone.

 

On his morning radio show, Star-Fox works in a coded apology that hopefully will get to Brother Voodoo.

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BROTHER VOODOO

 

LINKAGE

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Game Cancelled Due To Sickness

 

Kisa Ariah Mephitina de Quasar

Only Child of Hepzibah of the Star-Jammers

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Roster: High Evo, Hercules, Kisa, Mr.Magnetix. and Qwerty!

 

Our heroes, officially named Seekers of the New Earth,

(yet no-one seems to call them that)

were going to investigate another hot-spot on the world,

this time Germany. On their way, they got a radio distress call

from a group calling themselves the Knights of Camelot,

and could they get some help, up in old England?

 

Out heroes flew down and found some Skrulls assaulting a bunker.

Specifically they were being led by the Power-Skrull, the meta-skrull

who recreates the powers of the X-Men. Named Paibok...

Luckily, the hero group achieved surprise on the Skrulls, and

dropped a bomb on them from the shuttle, as well as

combined teamwork attacks from the super-heroes,

and they mopped up the Attack squad right quick.

 

The survivors in the bunker were English men who had been listening

to Radio Free Starfox, and they believed in the ideal of the new earth,

and had tried to set up their own utopia, and they had made power armor

in the image of the High Evolutionary. They had set up their own clean area,

trying to make a go of it. Now they communicated with the Hi Evo,

decided to manage England for the good, and they got a Garden of Eden

creation kit from him. Plus they were quite concerned about genetic purity.

 

then off to Post-Apocalyptic Germany to search out some rumors.

 

they are met at the border by Morbius again, who reminds them

they are now working at the whim of Brother Voodoo, really.

 

they find a huge restored area that's been cleaned up from being a wasteland.

the onboard nav-computer bleeps, telling them the clean area matches an old map.

In fact, the clean area follows the old borders of Upper Bavaria.

 

Sure enough, there's dirty work afoot, and the ruler of this area is Necrodamus,

an old Avengers villain ,who had set up a castle and was using

the local peasants as a base to amass power.

Well Hercules infiltrated, and the team got him into a power duel,

and he put up quite a fight.

 

Kisa had the elephant shove him out the back wall of the castle,

Hercules tossed a tower onto him, Magnetix tossed the rest of the wall onto him

after a high speed maneuver, and Qwerty manned the big gun.

After Necrodamus fell down, he started yelling, and Kisa's area effect

spiders crawled down his mouth, so that was about it for him.

 

Inside the remains fo the castle, Hercules kills all the dementors

and wights, who could only come out at nights.

 

And they find the secret power source that Necrodamus was getting his

mojo from: Luke Cage trapped in a power cell... The group rescues

Power Man from a stasic prison.

also they found a vial full of live steam...

 

Next Week: Dinner with Brother Voodoo...

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SEEKERS THIS WEEK :

Mister Magnetix, High Evo, Starfox and Kisa

plus special guest star Luke Cage

 

First the High Evo set up his cleaning Devices HERE

and test fired them. He cleaned up Tanzania for a trial run.

 

Kisa will loan power from the Quantum Bands for the full scale operation.

The team has investigate NYC, Chicago and Haiti before they are ready to say go on that.

 

Hercules offered (via cellphone) that perhaps we don't want to clean the planet yet until we're certain the Skrulls won't trash it again. There is an interstellar war going on you know...

 

 

So all travel to Haiti for Dinner with the Sorceror Supreme

and they find an island paradise. Brother Voodoo cast spells each

solstice and equinox to cleanse the Caribbean locale.

 

his servants show each member to their own bungalow, and say dinner is at five. While each one is washing up, BV comes in the back door of their little place, and confronts each one, saying he must take their measure...

 

He uses his Conversation to learn about them, and then he uses his mental powers to read their thoughts, and lectures them on their peculiar Psych Disads.

 

Kisa he advised to let the past go, not hate the Shiar so...

 

High Evo he advised to look up from his workbench now and then....

 

Starfox fared the best, and basically just conversed with BV.

and eventually he remembered to apologize for offing his servant Tombstone.

 

Magnetix he offered that hating evil may not be a good thing....

 

Power Man he advised to use his third chance on life wisely...

 

The Katana Girls he did not lecture, since their only vice is gambling....

Twice BV's disads kicked in, and a ghost showed up to rifle through

Kisa's bedroom, and then later BV seemed to be in 2 places at once,

quite distracted.

 

Dinner went nicely. BV acknowledges all the new heroes, and they can work together. The cuisine was all strange, lots of seafood and coconut and mangies, but passable.

Morbius the Living Vampire interrupts dinner, and says he's found the Living Robot. But cannot rescue it by himself.

 

 

Later, Rocket Raccoon sends a message from Canada, saying he's brought the Canuck portion of the refugees back from Tau Ceti that wanted to live with Box at Alkali Lake. Starfox notices that one of the passengers is weird, and sends coded messages to Box and Rocket they may have a stowaway. (Skrulls?)

 

Hercules is attemptin to awaken a Gold Dragon to be the Guardian of Asia....

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the Seekers explore the bombed out ruins of New York City....

Kisa, High Evo, Star-Fox, Mister Magnetix,

and Hercules was fading in and out because of the Haitian booze last week.

 

as the GM I had a huge map of the Greater NYC metro area prepared,

with all the hotspots and nit-noid details of the Marvel Universe scribed on it.

 

So I expected the heros to scout around, figure out where to start, maybe

recon a little to get the lay of the land. NOPE.

 

"we zoom right in, land in Central Park, and then walk over to Avengers HQ"

and the High Evolutionary whips out his nanites, and has them start rebuilding it.

 

High Evo can transform 120 Body per minute, and that allows him to form a skyscraper in around 3 hours. So he engaged in some wanton acts of random rebuilding without a license.

 

they met some of the scavvies wandering around NYC. these are people who are not mutants (re: plague) but who have something that gives them an edge to survive in the hell-hole ruins of the metropolis.

 

 

At the remains of the Hell-Fire club they encountered a descendant called Marty Shaw, and he was a real winner, and then the team defeated a demon of darkness who was claiming the building as her own, something to do with a postponed curse on all activities at the Club...

 

Magnetix smashed her with blocks of stone, but what he learned was that he should have scraped her back into the area of effect of Kisa's various powers for some potentially vicious team play.

 

 

At Avengers HQ they ran into another legacy, Evan Jones, also a winner (everyone they've met in NYC so far has had a real 5h1++y attitude, so I as the GM derive no joy in role-playing them). Now Evan had a briefcase full of old papers and seems to have some pipe dream that he will hold title to any future Avengers enterprises. Big laughs all around.

 

The team finally did some scouting. the Grav-FX radar showed some really stange rock strata underneath Avenue J. this corresponed to where Morbius thought Johnny Storm might be held prisoner. Sure enough, Herc tunneled down and rescued the Man-Droid.

 

They also determined the epicenter for Apocalpse was up on Graymalkin Lane in Westchester, so that's where they have to do the Cleanse-Planet routine, when they;ve got NYC pacified.

 

Now the one thing everyone they met in NYC had was a healthy respect for the subway system. So the team had to butt in down there also. Now you'd expect the underground of a ruined city to be blasted, wrecked, radioactive, full of Morlocks or whatever. but No, the tubes were clean and neat , and relatively free from all plague influences.

 

Eventually the Seekers found out why: the Big Brain.

Yes, the most powerful telepath on the planet, Reed Richards.

He scoots around all five boroughs of NYC, from Jersey to X-Men HQ.

So the entire underground is safe and clean. But not to be entered lightly,

Reed's been though a lot, lost it all, and is a tad edgy. Perhaps off his twig a little.

 

Plus the team never ever bothered to explore who shot at them from Rykers Island.

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Players: High Evo, Magnetix, Kisa, Starfox, and finally Silver Surfer...

 

As the players dig up and revive Johnny Storm the living Man-Droid,

he mutters something depressing about "I killed myself for a reason..."

 

then out of the jungles of Brooklyn come rushing up the Ape-Squad, with a dozen ape body guards with rifles.

 

huge fight. very funny.

 

Magnetix starts whacking monkeys with stop-light poles.

 

Silver Surfer zapped several apes.

 

Starfox was rooked, Apes had the Animal class of minds.

 

Kisa trapped, zapped, and slapped a lot of apes around

 

Katana Girls fought Etrigangutan, the most Oni-like of the apes.

 

The team rescued Johnny Storm from his earthen prison, he seemed severely depressed.

[SSgt Baloo]

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thanks guys for the suggestions, but the new players seems to be immune to the power of suggestion...

 

anyways here's ye campaign map

 

Nice to see the Starbucks franchise still going strong in the new universe. Or were they banished to that one location midway between the Milky Way and the Black Galaxy?

[Egyptoid]

Thank You SSgt.Baloo

 

game cancelled this week due to Extreme Cancellation

[Egyptoid]

Call it: Time of death 15nov08-22:59

 

HAIL and FAREWELL

 

Last episodes of the Seekers, as Marvel Galaxies draws to a close.

 

As the group investigates New York City, squads fo salvage robots show up and begin digging up the special minerals in which Johnny Storm had been imprisoned.

 

They are determined to be minions of Galactus, and just then Star-Fox's black-berry bleeps, letting him know that some of his satellites have been eaten. Star-Dust the herald shows up to take issue with the heroes.

 

Big fight ensues, and the only one in the party who can touch Star-Dust is Mister Magnetix, with his cosmic energy SFX.

 

They manage to slag the robots, and KO Star-Dust, but Galactus's worldship starts bombarding the area, and the group scatters.

 

==================

 

the group rendezvous at Coney Island. they try various tactics.

they arrange for END to give to Galactus.

 

Finally Starfox contacts Galactus mentally, and Surprise! persuades him to be friends.

 

They persuade Galactus to eat Pluto, instead of earth, and the colony and strange native life there dies screaming. Also he drains all of Starfox's EGO, PRE, and END, leaving him a vegetable for several weeks.

 

Had he eaten Titan , that would have killed Circe and her resistance movment there.

 

They spy out his World-Ship with Kisa's owl.

 

They let Galactus go, and then they clean up the earth finally.

 

The group would have been killed assaulting Galactus, because they were forgetting to call in their favors and contacts to Help....

 

Well done, a fun campaign, but it was too big, too much, too many headaches. But I've always wanted to run Galactic Champions...