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[Utech]

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Lynn Lofthaven was an aspiring actress for years. Starting in her pre-pubescent "cute as a button" years, moving on to her "teen angel" years, throughout her "hottie" years, and...

 

It's not that Lynn never worked as an actress. She did. She worked all the time. But she never got a starring role. She never got the attention of the press. She was a bridesmaid, an also-ran, a cog in the great Hollywood machine. She wanted more. More! And her youth -- her best years -- had slipped away.

 

And then she met him. And he explained what he could do for her. And the price. And she paid it gladly.

 

Lynn Lofthaven disappeared that night. Her body never found. A new, young, talented, beautiful actress hit the town that night. An actress who seems to get all the breaks. All the success. She has the world at her feet. Oh how many of the nation's young girls jealously dream of being Incarnadine?

 

It's a dream come true, all right. A dream that sometimes turns into a nightmare. When he comes a-callin' and tells her it's time for a payment. A payment that must be made in blood and souls. A payment that cannot be delayed. So Incarnadine makes sure she has plenty of both set aside.

 

She's beautiful. She's charming. She's talented. She's successful. And she's literally Hell on Earth with a knife.

[Chris Goodwin]

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On the geek scale, Matthew Randall fit squarely in the realm of dork. Even the math nerds and the gamer geeks couldn't stand him. Needless to say he was picked on by everyone. When he'd finally had enough, he screamed his anguish to the world, and was answered, by a demon. He begged the demon to help him, to grant him power over those who tormented him.

 

The demon granted his wish. The new Matthew was now 6'2", extremely muscled.... and a 42DD?

 

The demon had turned Matthew into a Succubus. Now, as Randi Matthews, she has power over her former tormentors all right. And part of the demon's "gift" was to irrevocably change all of Randi's memories; while she knows that she used to be male, in every memory she has she was female. However, the subject matter of the memories didn't change; every torment is remembered, including the punches, the wet willies, the Indian burns, the swirlies (in the boys' bathroom!), the towel snaps after gym class...

 

She can change her shape into any female form (including animals), has a high powered Mind Control against men, and has the usual suite of demonic abilities.

 

She hopes to be a male again, but knows that with every male she tempts and takes power over as Succubus, that hope is closer to being dashed. And taking that power is so very easy....

 

To add further insult, no one even seems to notice that Matthew Randall is gone.

[SKJAM!]

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Matique Florentine grew up in a family of (other than her) all men. Her mother had died in childbirth, with Mattie a good ten years younger than her youngest brother. The Florentine family genes produced strong, strapping men, athletically gifted and naturally graceful. All Matique's older brothers went on to become professional athletes. But Matique was the baby of the family, weak and scrawny. Although her father, brothers and uncles loved her, they saw her as something to be protected and coddled. Even when she finally started filling out a bit, Matique was clumsy and had lousy aim. Sure, she could have accepted her fate and found something of her own to be good at, but she wanted to be a top athlete and show up her brothers.

 

Then she found a "manager" who offered her a contract that would make her tops in any field she chose, at a price that seemed trivial. Matique explained that she wanted to be "equal to any man who opposes me." And so it was done. Except, of course, that there was a small catch in the wording. Matique is indeed the equal of any man who opposes her. "Man" being defined as "adult male human", and only so long as they oppose her. While she's opposed by a man, Matique has the exact same characteristics, skills and powers. As soon as he stops opposing her, Matique returns to her scrawny, clumsy self.

 

Nevertheless, Matique now calls herself Sister Superior, in the hopes that it will fool men into thinking she has more power than them. She's scored several victories from men who just refuse to treat her as an equal.

[BoloOfEarth]

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Rita Schmidt had it all. A husband who loved her and whom she loved with all her heart. A beautiful and intelligent son, fast approaching school age, with another child on the way. A career as a respected surgeon. A wonderful home, great friends, loving family.

 

And then the car accident happened.

 

Rita survived, though the damage to her hands spelled the end to her career. But the worst part was that her husband and son, the lights of her life, were snuffed out like candles in the wind, and her injuries also meant she lost her unborn child -- a daughter that was not to be. She was devastated, and started through the stages of grief. Denial. Anger. But when she got to Bargaining, her pleas were answered.

 

The demon offered to not only restore her husband and children -- even her unborn daughter -- but also would grant her the ability to transfer any injury or harm from one person to another, "so that you can continue to protect your family." She readily agreed; too readily, it turns out, because she didn't read all of the clauses in the contract and didn't consider all the implications of losing one's soul.

 

Upon signing her name (in blood, of course), Rita got her first surprise: time changed to make her husband and son survive the crash, and her daughter was delivered (a few weeks premature, but alive), but Rita herself didn't make it. She woke up as a spirit, invisible and intangible. She could see her family, but not communicate with them in any way.

 

But that didn't bother her as much as she might have expected, because her next surprise was learning that losing one's soul meant losing one's self. She found she no longer cared about her family. In some ways, she resented them for effectively making her give up her own life. She turned away from them, wandering for a time, amusing herself by transferring harms from one random person to another, until she came across Lady Nothing. Lady Nothing was somehow able to see and communicate with her (and Rita remains one of the very few able to see and hear Lady Nothing). Intrigued, the Lady asked Rita to join the Sisters of Blood. Now, as The Shade, she turns injuries against her Sisters onto their foes instead, and idly wonders when, if ever, it will all end.

[death tribble]

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I'm going to go with one we actually encountered.

 

She is called Nightmare and resembles a human sized manta ray while in flight. No-one knows who she is or was as her paranormal ID is her public ID. It is known that she sold her soul for power only to see the evil Warlock make a better deal with the Devil thereafter. She possesses flight, a powerful energy blast and an aura of dread that can sap the courage of even the most valient and send them fleeing if she says 'Boo' (PRE drain).

 

New group 'The Warsaw Pact'. Eastern Europeans of villainous intent.

[Cygnia]

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From Romania, Madame Strigoi is not your typical vampire. Daylight doesn't impede her (imply that she sparkles and she'll tear your throat out). Neither do religious artifacts. Garlic, however, does hold her back. And so does burning hemp. Instead of changing into a bat or a wolf, she turns into a feral black cat. She poses as a "private nurse" for wealthy clients, mesmerizing the rich and the powerful. However, she prefers to take a human form that's of average beauty, thinking this helps throw any suspicion off her.

 

She's trying to recruit Pole-Axe away from the The Cyphers. Given how disgusted he is with Red Meat and W.A.S.P, he's more than likely going to jump ship.

[BoloOfEarth]

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DT: need number of members. Are you going for 8: one from each country in the Pact?

 

The villain known as Pérák claims to be the legendary figure of the same name from World War II. His first known modern appearance was in the city of Prague in Czechoslovakia, where he jumped into a group of police officers outside a station house, severely slashed four men with razor-like claws, then leapt over the rooftops to escape. He dresses as a black-clad chimney sweep with a mask fashioned from a torn sock, and though he has no visible armor, he was apparently unharmed by bullets from several policemen's guns.

 

Unlike his more heroic legend from the 1940s, however, this Pérák does not hesitate to attack authorities of any stripe, though he has yet to explain why. He does hesitate to attack women and children, though men seem fair game. He is very quick, dextrous, and slightly stronger than normal. He has razor-like claws on both hands, and can leap quite prodigious distances with little effort.

[BoloOfEarth]

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She is called Nightmare and resembles a human sized manta ray while in flight.

 

Is there a Storn Cook picture of her? If so, I used her in my campaign as well. (She auditioned for a nasty group called the Ravagers.) Same name, similar powers.

[death tribble]

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Yes there is and I'll add it here later.

 

Also minimum five members. Warsaw Pact would include Russia, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia etc but probabnly not the Russian satillites like Uzbekistan, Georgia and the Ukraine.

[Utech]

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(Continuing the "monstrous" theme -- Can a theme be made out of two data points? I will endeavor to do so.)

 

Born just outside the Black Forest in West Germany in 1901, Wolfram Gerwig contracted lycanthropy as a strapping young lad of 16. The attack unnerved Wolfram and his family. He was sent via Höllentalbahn (the "Hell Valley Railway" constructed by his uncle Robert) to a clinic in Berlin. Wolfram was far beyond their help, of course. One glorious moonlit night, he slaughtered every living soul in the clinic and set out to live on his own. The Grunewald became his home. Berlin became his hunting grounds.

 

Wars came and went. The hunting was always good -- on one side of the wall or the other.

 

And then the wall came down. The heroes sprung up. The hunter became the hunted.

 

Wolfram shortened his name to Wolf and joined the Warsaw Pact looking for safety in numbers. In his mind, the group is more like the Warsaw Pack. Oh, but Wolf isn't sponging off the others. No. They appreciate his experience, his enhanced senses, and there's something just murderously lovely about watching him tear into a throat. Yes, indeed. Wolf loves his work.

[Cygnia]

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Wojtek is a master illusionist. Scorned and despised by women in his native Poland, he took to the dark arts of magic readily. Illusion came so easily to him, he's now convinced he actually is a handsome muscular suave young man instead of the balding, pathetic, over-dramatic piece of work he is now. It hides his self-loathing. Confronting him with his own (real) reflection will cause him to either go berserk or fall into a self-destructive quivering wreck. He supports Madame Strigoi's recruitment efforts of Pole-Axe.

[SKJAM!]

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Soviet scientists officially named the project "Chernobog", an attempt to create a gigantic demonic-looking monster that would terrify the superstitious capitalists. But the thing apparently died of a heart attack shortly after being brought to life. The project's funds were cut, the titanic corpse abandoned in the underground hangar and the entire site covered in concrete.

 

But the creature was not entirely dead. A smaller version of itself--much smaller--slowly ate its way out of the greater mass, and then dug out of the concrete covering. Two decades later, the remnant of the Chernobog project stood in the open air. It sought to fulfill its original purpose, attacking the Western nations, but its now diminuitive size gave the creature the derisive name of Gremlin From the Kremlin. Too weak to gain its revenge alone, the Gremlin joined Warsaw Pact.

 

Standing about two feet tall, the Gremlin is a demonic looking figure with leathery wings, sharp horns, wicked teeth and deadly claws. It has the ability to make machines malfunction (or work better) simply by sitting near them. Little know is the Gremlin's ability to suddenly expand to nine feet tall and proportionally massive. Since this takes most of its energy, the Gremlin saves this trick for sucker punches.

 

Edit: Next team--Gaia's Vengeance: Four powerful beings bent on destroying a significant portion of humanity in the name of ecoterrorism.

[BoloOfEarth]

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Lilane Karanja grew up in a small, impoverished village in Sudan. Located in the Sahara Desert, the village was blessed with a well that provided just enough water to sustain a few small farms and keep the villagers' throats from getting too parched. Lilane and her family may not have had all they wanted, but they had all they needed. At least, until Doxxon Oil started drilling a handful of miles away.

 

Within a month, the well had pretty much dried up and most of the villagers moved away. Despite the nearly dry well, Lilane's family decided to stay and try to eke out an existence. Over the next few years, the Karanjas began to slowly die from thirst and starvation. And when it seemed that things couldn't get worse, they did. The long-running Sudanese civil war reached to the dying village when members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the "militia" known as the People's Defense Forces (PDF) clashed over the Doxxon oil drilling facility. All of Lilane's family died in the battle, and Lilane (a young teen) was taken as a slave by the PDF. It was during this time that she discovered her powers to cause water to evaporate (including water inside the human body).

 

After a few years (that she refuses to talk about), Lilane managed to use her powers to escape. She swore she would have vengeance for the deaths of her family and friends. Her wrath is not just directed at either the northern or southern Sudanese, but at the entire world that she sees as completely indifferent to the plight of her family and friends. Now, as Drought, she will show all of humanity what it means to do without precious, life-giving water.

[Cygnia]

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The agent of the Dark Druid was proud of himself. The legends were true! Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror existed. Smiling to himself, the agent didn't recognize the irony of the fact that this ancient Mayan temple would never have been discovered if those idiots with their clear-cutting machines hadn't entired this Belizian rain forest. His hands were already stained with blood of innocent workers just trying to make a living. A fitting sacrifice, the agent thought, to the hungry jaguar sun god. This god's power would certainly be useful to the Cry of Gaia. He reached out for the jade headpiece and the obsidian knife...

 

...in a split second, the agent was no more, overwhelmed by the rage of the sun god. Picking apart the agent's mind, Tezcatlipoca was enraged at what humanity had done to what had once been his mighty empire. The gifts he had given them had been squandered! And this so-called "Cry of Gaia"? They DARED to think they spoke for the earth? No, no...more petty humans seeking to bend nature to their will, that's all. Humanity -- ALL humanity -- was a blight that needed to be culled.

 

The Smoking Mirror prefers to satiate his bloodlust in the form of a giant jaguar. However, he can take a human form if the situation calls for it. He can summon powerful earthquakes if given enough time or fire deadly solar blasts in the meantime. Anyone who reveals themselves to be a follower of Quetzalcoatl will earn his hateful wrath.

 

 

Figured since we had an eco-terrorist theme earlier, I'd give a reason as to why these two teams probably wouldn't get along...

 

[Utech]

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Despite her name Sympathy has none for the human race. Her alliance is firmly and forever with Gaia. Not that Gaia speaks to Sympathy or anything like that. Well. Not directly. But from the time she was a little girl, Sympathy has felt the pain humanity inflicts upon the planet. Low-level anxiety when passing a gas-guzzling SUV. Bone-splitting agony near a coal-fired power plant. Far too much for her to bear mentally as well as physically.

 

And then she learned to turn it out. To take the pain and give it to others. And that's what she does. Sympathy "helps" humanity by sharing with them any pain humanity is inflicting on Gaia. Stick her in the high mountains of Papua New Guinea and she's very happy and nearly powerless. Drop her in the middle of a major city and she's very upset and quite dangerous indeed. Get her too close to a superfund site and she'll be snapping bones, turning blood to poison, and inflicting enough pain to drop Dr. Destroyer to his knees.

[csyphrett]

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Buck Link used to be a hunter for zoos and wildlife preserves. He enjoyed moving animals out of the way of humans so they would be safe. He was bitten by a strange snake on an expedition in the outback. Ever since then, he has urged the animal kingdom to revolt against humanity.

 

If you have snakes on a plane, crocodiles in the pool, or too many birds divebombing your car, chances are the Zoolander is on the attack.

CES

[SKJAM!]

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And that's four, what's the next theme, csyphrett?

[csyphrett]

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Mars and Athena Puzo are super genuises who hate each other. They have opposed each other for decades. Now at the point of their lives where their actions have taken a toll on each other, they have decided to fight a proxy war against each other.

 

Mars created the Vultures of Naples to fight his war.

 

The Vultures of Naples are seven villains based on cartoons like GiJoe.

[Cygnia]

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Cavalier seems the unlikeliest of men to be a villain. Honorable, cares about the agents who serve under him, doesn't like to take stupid or life-threatening risks. It was for these very reasons Mars hired him actually. That, and Mars made the offer first. When it comes to battle tactics, few are his equal. Likewise, he's exceptionally skilled in a wide variety of weaponry and martial arts. He refuses to make a decision without weighing every variable. The depths his twin sister Zealot will sink to frighten him and he prays there's a way to neutralize her without killing her...

[csyphrett]

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Lightning Felinus was created with the strengths and weaknesses of various cats. He has accumulated equipment to bolster his cat powers, but his greatest weapon is the sword of O-Man. This sword cuts through anything, signals his whereabouts, and returns to his hand when he throws it at an enemy.

CES

[BoloOfEarth]

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[With apologies to Steven King for stealing borrowing this idea]

 

Nobody knows where the wooden footlocker came from – or if they do, they aren’t saying. It simply arrived one day, addressed to Mars Puzo, and at first he thought it was a trap or some kind of wicked surprise from his sister. The stenciling on the top, in the style of old WWII Army footlockers, read simply “Soldiers of Fortune.” Careful x-rays and other scans of the box revealed that inside were hundreds of fairly standard-looking molded plastic Army men (the green plastic kind that stand about 1” tall) along with a few molded-plastic tanks, boats, and helicopters. It appeared to be a harmless joke, at least until Mars opened the footlocker.

 

The Army men came streaming out of the box, rolling out their vehicles and quickly setting up a base camp in Mars’ living room. One of the Army men (an officer, by the look of him) scribbled a note on a scrap of paper, saluted Mars, and handed him the paper. It read simply, “Your orders, General?”. With a little experimentation, Mars discovered that the soldiers' weapons fired actual (incredigly tiny) bullets and missiles; it's like getting stung by a swarm of hornets.

 

Amused but still suspicious, Mars turned the Soldiers of Fortune over to Cavalier to assist the Vultures in their crimes. He still keeps a careful eye on them, but the Soldiers appear to not only be completely autonomous, but also devoted to helping the Vultures defeat the Owls. I guess time will tell.

 

The real shame is that Mars never looked at the other side of the scrap of paper, didn’t notice the typed words on it:

 

 

“Special Bonus: This box of Soldiers of Fortune contains its own imitation Nuclear Bomb!”

 

[Chris Goodwin]

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Lord Darkke, upon hearing that his arch-foe Lupus Northstar had been recruited by Athena Puzo, offered his services to Mars. Constantly flanked by his twin ravendragons Agrippus and Falthor, he seeks to destroy Lupus Northstar and all he holds dear. Lord Darkke comes complete with his own spacefighter, the Lasher-1; accompanying him are his doomtroops in their own Sublashers.

[csyphrett]

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"By the power of a gray skull" is the phrase that allows Adam Eterna to become Key Man. He is the stealth and entry expert for the Vulcans. There is no facility that he can't penetrate with his ability to open doors anywhere.

CES

[Mr. R]

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I love this thread also.

[Cygnia]

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"I MADE her, Mister Puzo! And THIS is the thanks I get -- especially after the accident?! Without me she'd be NOTHING!"

 

Jessalyn Albright, enraged that she was dumped by her superstar client Krystal, wants revenge badly. Armed with a sonic cannon, an expert in computers and taking on the name Dischordia, she'll stop at nothing to "expose that [bLEEP] for the [bLEEP]ing fake she is!"

 

 

Jessalyn made Krystal all right -- the hologram was based on HER thought patterns! An overload at a small nightclub gave Krystal "life".