Drhoz Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 The other campaign we play in every fortnight - run by Weldun. Edge City was founded in 2002, midway between San Francisco answered Los Angeles. This 'San Angeles' neopolis was designed to be a self-sufficient City of the Future, complete with ground-breaking industrial research, and a dedicated commercial fusion reactor. Unfortunately this dream went completely to hell when the reactor was revealed as a plot by the alien Dominator to crack open the dimensional walls between his world and ours, incidentally sterilising the West Coast and dropping California into the sea. Luckily for the world, multiple superteams, aided by a half-dozen VIPER cells and Doctor Destroyer himself (after all, if anybody is going to wipe clean large areas of the map, it's going to be him), stormed the complex just in time to prevent the disaster. Destroyer rewired the containment fields into an Electrogravitic drive and launched the reactor into orbit, where it burned like a second sun for days. Forced to buy their power and other utilities from the Californian grid, industry abandoned the city to decay and lawsuits, and it now limps under the weight of a frightened police force and multiple super-gangs. Not the least of which are those formed from the ranks of the creatures that escaped from Genosys Corp during the confusion - animals that were, at the very least, subject to *highly ill-advised* genetic engineering. Thus Edge City is a bankrupt town, irradiated with strange dimensional energies, and home to some very much inhuman residents. **** Amongst the gengineered inhabitants of Freaktown - an alcoholic ursine altered to have an eidetic memory ( so he could tell stories to kids); a gang of ursine criminals, with thought-control powers ( we called them the Scare Bears ); and a telepathic dolphin rebuilt as a supercavitating hypersonic torpedo. I'm not even going to elaborate on the Furbynators or the villains that stole the plot of the GI Joe movie and launched intercontinental ballistic mushrooms. You have to wonder what was in the coffee at Genosys. The Velociraptor jazz quartet aren't genetically engineered. They just moved to Freaktown from another dimension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Re: City on the Edge sonds like dark champions with low power supers cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adventus Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Re: City on the Edge I would suggest you look at Century Station by Palladium Books. And its Supplement Gramercy Island. Similar history and everything. It is one the best things to come out of Palladium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted July 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Re: City on the Edge the GM has a big stack of Palladium stuff, so the similarities don't surprise me at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireleaper Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Re: City on the Edge When the reactor was jettisoned into space the sun noticed. Needing to determine why there was a disruption with the music of the sphere's it launched a solar flare towards Earth. In the time it took for the flare to reach Earth it had coalesced into a sentient entity. This entity was known as the Fiery Avatar of the Sun. When the Edge formed Avatar was one of the signatories. Admittedly it is reasonably well known that Avatar has the mentality of a child, and gets treated as such by the rest of the Edge. This was not helped by incidents such as Terminus comming back from a military base; Avatar: So tell me what it was like? Terminus: Military Avatar: Sooo; whats military like? Terminus: Like military Avatar: But what is it like!? Zero: well military is war and war comes from mars... Avatar: OK (zooms off to mars , 20 minutes later) Avatar: I'm back, didn't find any military but I found this nice shiny rock. The Edge: Recently after ramming the energy broadcast machine that was germinating the Asparagus (not mushroom) shaped missiles carrying a mutagenic plague from low orbit. Avatar was subject to an assassination attempt by eclipse, who stole the nice shiny rock to project her own power into Avatar. The day was saved by Miss Chaos who blasted the rock with chaotic energy causing it to invert on itself. The resultant energies teleported the Edge into Nightlands Earth (Yes the palladium setting) and also triggered an apotheosis in Avatar who then became the Radiant Avatar Of The Sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted July 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Re: City on the Edge Yes, your dealing with the swarm of asparagus-shaped fungal missiles was certainly a Great Character Moment. The missiles in high orbit, splitting open, the spores cloud spreading, doing you best to burn them all away, but without knowing the whereabouts of the mutagenic masers you couldn't stop the imminent toxic rain... until the masers opened fire, neatly illuminating the crowd and marking a nice neat line all the way back down to the ground. Which you then accelerated towards at a good fraction of the speed of light. Bang. Goodbye masers. Goodbye mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Re: City on the Edge The Velociraptor jazz quartet aren't genetically engineered. They just moved to Freaktown from another dimension.T-rex's actually. ...Asparagus (not mushroom) shaped missiles...Many mushrooms are asparagus-shaped. sonds like dark champions with low power supers coolPost-Iron-Age actually. I call it, "rusted age" due to the heavy elements of corporate dystopia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Re: City on the Edge I have and like those particular Palladium books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Re: City on the Edge I have and like those particular Palladium books.As do I. Along with Mutant Underground. I also have almost all the TMNT books as well (just missing Avalon and Orbit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Re: City on the Edge Avatar was subject to an assassination attempt by Eclipse' date=' who stole the nice shiny rock to project her own power into Avatar. The day was saved by Miss Chaos who blasted the rock with chaotic energy causing it to invert on itself. The resultant energies teleported the Edge into Nightlands Earth (Yes the palladium setting) and also triggered an apotheosis in Avatar who then became the Radiant Avatar Of The Sun. [/quote']I should point out that this was all a part of the Black Paladin's Xanatos Gambit to open a breach into another dimension and thus help him fullfill a certain prophesy. He's already learned the hard way that sometimes things aren't what they seem. The Line "And the Dark One shall claim the Sword of Glory" would seem to be obvious. Except that Avatar is the only brightly coloured member of the team. Terminus runs around in what can only be described as Black and Grey Stormtrooper Armour, complete with Jack-Boots. Miss Chaos wears a dark grey hooded robe. Zero wears a black hooded robe (making it somewhat difficult to follow certain directions to find him when he's flying at night. Over the Pacific ocean.). The Stentorian and Trawler both wear dark blue and black costumes. Hell, the Edge City Police wear black Body Armour (Pic). So, Miss Chaos wasn't surprised at all when Zero turned out to be the one to claim the Sword of Glory. ***** Well, now they're in the next universe which happens to be populated by a race of Humanoid Hyenadons. And they land in an Egypt who, along with it's rival the Holy Roman Empire, have achieved an impressive level of technology, mastering engineering, astronomy and many other sciences. Basically they're pre-gunpowder, but give it another century and they'll be lobbing 8lb balls of iron at each other. The Holy Roman Empire is ruled by Empress Constantia III, who by all reports, depises the Egyptians and they're ruler, Pharaoh Tausret-Amun VI, in particular. The only things the Egyptians and the Romans have ever agreed upon was when a certain Warmistress called Genghis Khan lead her horde out of the east, the two great empires agreed that the pint-sized runts needed to be kicked back to where they came from. Any other ideas or details people can think of to help me out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted August 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Re: City on the Edge I imagine Empress Constansia is going to be a bit irritated when her prophesy of a "Dark One shall come out Egypt" turns out to be the entire Set (bdum-tish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Re: City on the Edge Mwahahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Re: City on the Edge Mwahahaha! is DISHONEST JOHN in town? lets see who gets the refference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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