Hermit Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Actually, it's probably closer to number 10... but heck with it. Your character is on another patrol, where he ends up facing an incredibly dangerous villain with some form of cutting attack (be it laser, or mono sword, or what have you). During the last phase of the battle, you manage to take the bad guy out, but at the same time, the villain lashes out and chops your character's hand off. Your character looks down in shock, rather than seeing a bleeding stump, he/she sees circuits and metal sparking with electricity where there should be cappilaries, muscle, and tendons. What would your character (Who may even doubt that he/she IS his/her self now) do? (Of course, if your character is a cyborg or robot normally, this might just be another day .. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Let's see...first characters I'm currently playing... RED STAR: would freak out, take villain in to authorities, get back with rest of group and try to get Allied scientists to repair him & check out rest of group. Then go out and track down the Nazi and/or mad scientist that's behind this fiendish plot. LEI KUNG: would not believe it, would look around for anybody who looks like an egoist and let them FEEL THE THUNDER OF LEI KUNG, MINISTER OF STORMS!!!! Depending on the team makeup at that time, could be interesting. some other characters... ROBOTMAN: pick up hand to have it reattached later. Think about getting some kind of coating to stop X type of attack. Take villain in. OMEGA: would have stray Star Wars thought that maybe the villain is really his father , then would drag hand and villain over to PRIMUS for investigation of self and incarceration of villain. Start investigating to find biological self, while beginning going over the ethical and spiritual implications. What if he frees the "real" Omega, but is still sentient in this form as well? Will he have a soul? Will he have rights in society as an AI? Will they be able to co-exist? Can he just walk away from the life that he feels is "his" and make way for the "real" Omega? What will he do when this "adventure" is over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Baron von Darien (elder vampire) -- vow to give the sorceror who cast this foul illusion the ass-kicking of the millennium. Starguard -- gape horrifically in shock, and then realize the true reason as to why she can't remember any of her past. Angst about whether or not she's really a person. Worry greatly if she's been programmed by her creator to be some kind of hidden weapon against the superteam she's on. Get on over to Dr. Silverback's and have herself examined for trojan horse programs, maker's marks, serial #'s, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 You evil little Hermit Vanirsson would stare at his stump and severed hand . Cast several spells to detect Mental Powers , Locate Self , and reatach limb . Contact a Cyberneticist or Robotics with UNTIL and seek out the truth ( He's a mage he can handle it ) . Then seek out the Criminal MasterMind HERMIT and restore his conciousness to his rightful body . Then contact a publisher , lawyer , and a ghost writer . Then make my Biography . A best seller for three weeks and buy that ring and house my Lady always wanted . Evil , evil Hermit . I get more GM'ing Adventure ideas from you posts from any other source . Thanks QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 For Quasar and Mind Maiden, it would be the same - go back to headquarters and confer with the other heros. Although Mind Maiden (who is more loaded up with weird mental disadds) would take it MUCH harder. Shadowhunter, being a loaner, would return home and brood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Re: What would your character do? #8 Originally posted by Hermit Actually, it's probably closer to number 10... but heck with it. Your character is on another patrol, where he ends up facing an incredibly dangerous villain with some form of cutting attack (be it laser, or mono sword, or what have you). During the last phase of the battle, you manage to take the bad guy out, but at the same time, the villain lashes out and chops your character's hand off. Your character looks down in shock, rather than seeing a bleeding stump, he/she sees circuits and metal sparking with electricity where there should be cappilaries, muscle, and tendons. What would your character (Who may even doubt that he/she IS his/her self now) do? (Of course, if your character is a cyborg or robot normally, this might just be another day .. ) This is great, I love it and I'm going to use it. Argus PS. My Character would make a Robotics roll to see if he is one of his own creations or someone elses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteryx Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Given that my character already is a robot and his home setting is a couple hundred years in the future, let's reverse the situation. Reflexively clutch the stump in pain (a new reflex for him) as he cries out, then look down and stare stunned and amazed. Then quickly snap out of it as the next shot fired at him and run and hide, since the most obvious implications of his suddenly apparently being human would get almost anyone who might be around gunning for him (to most of the good guys he's a villain, to most of his "family" free will alone is betrayal, and the other major evil faction is all about human genocide). Try to contact the one medic of his family who actually knows biological stuff as well as mechanical stuff (fortunately, s/he's sympathetic to him) and hope and pray s/he isn't ordered to take him in or kill him or the like. Which isn't to say his head wouldn't be spinning through all this... Once he's relatively safe and going through the process of healing, he'd take the time to try to work through what's going on. He'd try his best to get some spiritual answers, for starters; is his soul still there? Did the spirits find the power to do this to him somehow? Was this meant to be; is he a truer or falser self? He'd then try to test his own free will as well as he can get away with in hiding -- in ways safe not just for him, but his family (as in, no betraying them just to see if he can). Is he still compelled to follow orders? How about to protect his mad scientist father? (He'd actually still want the latter, just not the former...) However, there's a greater complication still in all this: Dr. Landon DeVry, another mad scientist who's obsessed with learning the secret of transferring human consciousness into a wholly robotic mind, and a man so evil it even disgusts my character's "family" of robotic villains (though not their creator). He'd go out of his way to see what DeVry seems to be doing and thinking. He may be responsible or he may have heard about the incident and be hunting my poor character down in order to dissect him. Either way, it would not be good. Then there's the question of whether his old body still exists -- and whether it still seems to be acting like him, which in turn would beg a host of theological questions... not to mention, given the possibility of binding orders, questions of trust. Yeah, this would pretty well turn his life upside-down. -- Pteryx (P.S.: I just remembered another detail. Provided he wasn't feigning human in that fight for some reason, there's also the question of why his technologically-based abilities were working, if they still do, and where they're coming from all of a sudden if so...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted October 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Glad you folks like it, and some of you even want to use it.... (Just don't tell your Players who mentioned this idea to you if you think they hold grudges ) I like the reverse idea Pteryx thought of for those that are normally robots etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost who Walks Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 *Looks at unconcious villain, severed hand* *pulls out cellphone, dials number* (one handed!) "Um...Mom? Uh can I come over? I need to ask you something. Yeah. Its about my mysterious father that I inherited all my powers from that you never want to talk about. Well..yes it is kind of important. I'm sure you can host your meeting of the amateur robotics club later.* *Picks up severed hand, sticks it under jacket so no one will notice* *Walks away, whistling* OOC: Must remember to buy full ambidexterity, for all characters, in the event this situation arises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Calico: Damn. I hate it when that happens and I'm going to have to have a talk with those nanobots. Ice Pirate: "I could sworn the other hand was the robotic one!?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 My character Zl'f would absolutely come unglued. She'd be horrified, and she'd also wonder how long she's been that way. She'd be suspicious of the physicians who've been monitoring her physiological changes over the past five years, and wonder if this is the real reason they'd warned her she'd probably never have children. And she'd wonder if she still had a soul, or if her praying as a machine is mocking the Almighty. I don't know if it would end her career as a superheroine; that would probably depend on several other factors. But it would probably be the most traumatic event of her life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 Anthem drops to her knees and cradles the sparking member in her other hand. This isn't possible, she mutters. As the sirens come closer she's suddenly stricken with the idea that this is a secret that needs to be hidden. She pickes up the severed hand and stalks off into the darkness, frequently trading alleys and crossing rooftops as if she could possibly put distance between herself and the incident that just happened. "Full house, Jacks over treys," Sundown says and scoops up his winnings. The others mutter under their breath but raise no real objections. They've become accustomed to losing, but not to liking it. The door bursts open and Sundown's pistol is in his hand before anyone has time to be alarmed. Sentry remains unfettered by the sudden noise as his innate sense of danger would have told him if there was an issue. "Anna?" Parasite questions. Her silhouette is smallest of their charges and easiest to make out. The girl stumbles into the room. "Are you hurt?" Parasite is up and standing behind her, holding her up by the elbows. He reaches around to where she has her arms crossed in front of her. The look on his face alerts them to a problem, but could not prepare them for what they see next. The hand falls on the tabletop and a small ark temporarily connects between it and the exposed wires of her stump. "Whu.... What am I?..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed-F Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Zed Warg: "S**t. As if I'm not messed up enough already." Wonders if his hand will regrow as flesh or steel, and why anyone would go to the trouble of doing this to him. Goes home to his junkyard to sulk for a while, then puts his "new" body through its paces & sees what it can do. Eventually he might get curious enough to start looking for answers as to how he got that way. Glaive: "I knew the danger pay for this job wasn't high enough. What kind of curse is this, and how do I remove it? Insert employer here is going to pay big-time for this one." After a false start looking for a mage to reverse the condition, eventually clues in that this might have something to do with technology, which just makes her even more uncomfortable. Dynamode: Screams like a little girl in shock and horror. (Of course, she is a little girl.) Jets off to find Daddy to make everything all right, wondering if somehow her armour is taking over her body... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Watcher Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Warp: The first thing he does after getting the villain squared away is conact the team mentalist to make sure this isn't some sort of illusion of some kind. If it is, then it gets dispelled and everything is all right again. If it isn't, then the next thing he does is go to Doctor Silverback to have his hand reattached and find out if whether he's just a human with a cybernetic arm or an actual robot. If the former, he goes back to the team mentalist and has him look for any repressed memories on how he got a cyberarm. If he turns out to be a robot, he'll ask Doctor Silverback to determine whether he's always been a robot and didn't know it or if his consciousness had just been transfered to a robot body without his knowledge (There should be some detectable differences betweened a made-from-scratch AI and an actual human consciousness). If the latter, I'll ask the entire team for help in investigating how and when this could have happened, as well as recommending that the all be checked out too to make sure the same wasn't done to them. If, on the other hand, I found out I had been a robot all along, I go pay a visit to my "father" Franklin Stone, CEO of Advanced Concepts Industries, and demand to know what the hell is going on. Spectrum: Reports what happened to him to his superiors. Since he gained his powers by being transformed by an artifact of the Progenitors, ask them to investigate the possibility that this new state is somehow a new step in the process which the Progenitor Probe used to change him. Mr. Mystic: After making sure it's not an illusion, casts a spell to look into the past and find out what happened. Also casts a spell to heal his hand, and depending on what he sees in the past, turns himself back into a human. Proteus: Reattaches his limb. Does some heavy investigation to figure out when and how such a transformation could have taken place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mightybec Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Crusher: He would be deeply saddened because his social life just got knocked down a notch or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Special Agent Michael Trent, AKA "Agent Orange" (who got telekinetic powers as an involuntary VIPER test subject): 1) curse VIPER, after a moment of shock 2) try to regrow the hand, and see what happens, and then 3) get to a lab and have himself tested Golem (shape-shifter of unknown origin): 1) "What the heck?!" 2) check to see if he can still shape-shift If he can, he'll decide that it's some kind of trick. If he can't, he'd probably get a little "numb", psychologically, not really knowing how he feels about it. He'd probably sit back and let the other members of the team decide how to deal with it. Zeropoint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Originally posted by Mightybec Crusher: He would be deeply saddened because his social life just got knocked down a notch or two. You're a very bad man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 The Amazing Bill (Robotic brick/sonics/stage magician): "Well, I guess I've got nothing up that sleeve." He'd invariably replace it with something odd. Agent 0 / Maru (Martial Brick/Japanophile/Surfer Dude): "Hmm, this explains how that loser was able to cut through my skin. . .Aaaaaaargh! I'm a freaking ROBOT! Dude!" Striker (MA/Super Agent, formerly of SHIELD): "WTF? I am going to talk to someone about this..." He'd then dig around in his arm looking for more tech. Dispatcher (Darkforce/Demonic Holding Cell/Martial Brick): "Interesting." Possibly retaliates against arm remover. The guy's obviously too dangers to let live. Has the team techies go over him for unknown cybernetics. (He's not a cyborg, but once you've had a demon grafted to you, you begin to consider all the options before drawing conclusions.) Thunder Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawk! (Brick/Paragon) He'd quickly adjust his perceptions of reality. He'd have to. He'd very likely grow a cyberware BFG multi-manglement weapon as his costume turned from silver age red, white and blue to black fatiques, and he'd take a tougher fight to the enemy, starting with that scum who just sliced his hand off... Jack (ADRPG Trump...master? Over 90 pts in Trump and a honking big Trump construct) He'd trump the guy into a personal Hell dimension, then investigate the matter via Shadow contacts in higher tech Shadows. Conrad (ADRPG Brick): He'd render the guy unconcious, bind him, and haul him to his favorite uncle...Julius. On the way, he'd consider whether or not he might actually be a robotic replacement of himself, then constantly worry that he'd shut down as he approached Amber. He'd eventually decide to interrogate the guy himself before proceeding further. The more he learned, the more paranoid he'd get, until he was forced down some diabolical path planned by his wiley elders for their own purposes. Kyle (ADRPG Redhead (mentalist/mage)): He'd mindrape the guy, then mind wipe him, then turn him into a meat puppet to set on whoever was behind this turn of events. If the guy doesn't know anything, that wouldn't change his plans for him much. There'd be a fair chance of him mindwiping the guy or killing him inadvertantly, which would mean he might need to call in a specialist associate, causing a huge amount of inconvenience and further paranoia. Helwin (ADRPG Chaos Lord/Shapeshifter): He'd go into full tilt shape shifting to repair the alteration, most likely slip into a primal form in his panic, and wake up in a far shadow, probably altered in ways he hadn't expected or desired. (Slight case of heavy shapeshifting, no higher powers and lots of Bad Stuff) Minor Characters: Merlin Murphy (Randomly rolled MSH flier with electrical projection and luck powers): "Aw, just my luck." Magni (Thorspawn teen with brickishness and sword and shield) : "Undo this foul wizardry or die!" He probably wouldn't kill the guy, though. Golden Eagle (HU Cyborg): "Hope I've got a spare..." Kicks subject. Repeatedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Anthem would realize this was some strange GM dream sequence inspired by too many late night b-movie marathons and proceed to wake up, or conclude the real Anthem was in stasis somewhere and proceed to rescue him. Very cool, two Anthems are better than one. Detect - Odd Plot Anomolies, Instant, At Range 20- KS: Meta-Gaming Concepts Midnight would freak out. He'd really freak out. Then he'd find the person who built him without telling him the sordid truth and freak out on them with his freak-out fu style of martial arts. Then he would narrowly escape the police and guys in white coats and ponder whether or not he should get to the bottom of the matter, check himself into a mental ward, or initiate shut down protocols Pinstripe: After determining 1) who built him, 2) why they built him, 3) whether they met his criteria of 'scum who must die' or not, 4) if they do meet the SWMD criteria disarming their secret control protocols, and 5) terminating them (lets face it, what GM could resist having Mr. Executions newly discovered creator be a bad guy with now disarmed secret control protocols... we know his builder is a badguy) Pinstripe would decide this was extremely cool and proceed to build more Pinstripes. An army of zoot suited triggerhappy vigilante robot hunter killers made in his own image.... what could be cooler than that? Doc Micro - after having constructed an IMPROVED replacement hand - would get to the bottom of the matter (his companions are a 1" tall version of Angel 3 from Hi-Tech Enemies and a robot dog named "dot" (a small spot). Sounds like a good bonding experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneon Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 My character's reaction Freon (yea ice mutant) "..........." some time later "........." Tombstone (demonicly possessed brick) "WTF did you do to me you peace of road kill!" Proceed to pound an answer out of the guy because you know cutting a hand off had to involve some severe body loss. And he enrages at loss of body Eightball (bio-engineered mutant/MA) "Well here I thought they made me with flesh and bones." Go looking for Ballistic to fix him up then maybe run some tests to see what else isn't working as intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayday Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Mayday would initially be shocked and freaked, instantly remembering the time the rest of the team was replaced by robots by P.S.I. and alert American Valor over a private mindlink that there may be a problem. Attempt to complete the fight but be distracted and leave as soon as possible, hiding it as best she could. Seek out answers. Is it her nanite research? Is it her entire body? Is it an illusion? Are there any memory gaps? Strange lumps or energy emissions from her? Her ultimate goal would be to find the real Mayday and rescue her, and apologize. If this IS the real Mayday she'd begin preparing for the future. She needs to have an heir at some point and so cloning may be her only option, Cloning her grandfather (her only living relative) if there is nothing left of her own genetics. Learn about herself (and reattach the hand). A grimmer Mayday all around. ShadowCross Continue kicking butt and table it for later. Not one for introspection but would prefer to know what is going on lest someone try to control her through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 This is a really cool question, but I must confess I'm really surprised at how many players think their characters would just shrug and go on with their superheroing after being turned into a machine (With possibly a slight detour to pummel the miscreant who did it). Now admittedly some supers essentially lose their humanity during whatever event made them a super, but I find it hard to believe so many of them would be so blasé about it. People have a hard enough time dealing with losing a limb; I can't believe replacing all your body parts with robotics would be such a non-event for most characters. I would think it would be tremendously traumatic for many if not most characters. Not to play up the overdone angst of comicdom, but the comics are full of characters who regard their superpowers as a mixed blessing. How much worse would be finding out your closest relative is a laptop computer rather than your mom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Well, in my case: The reason Baron von Darien wouldn't freak is because a) as an 1100-year-old master vampire, he simply wouldn't *believe* it and he's got an EGO of 45. Victor von Doom-class willpower. The reason Starguard wouldn't freak... well, actually, she would. But she's had a nagging doubt as to whether or not she's human *anyway*, seeing as how she can't remember a damn thing about her past, so it wouldn't be quite as totally traumatic as it would be for Zl'f. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Hey, I realize that there are probably characters out there who in such a circumstance would roll their eyes and shout "I've been turned into a robot? Aw, jeez! Not again!" My surprise was just at how many seemed to regard being turned into a robot as routine or unremarkable. Sure, they'll beat up the badguy who did it when they catch him. But they'll beat up the mook who knocked off the local convenience store with just as much enthusiasm. I would think losing one's humanity would be a tough thing for most characters, especially characters who are already afraid their powers have already made them less than human. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Iron Will: If I'm a robot, why am I a quadroplegic? Being a robot would greatly simplify my life. Dolphin: Apparently machines can have a Buddah nature. Take THAT, Roger Penrose! Millennium: This is a new one. I don't recall that any of the previous incarnations were robots. Cheeta: OK, where's the camera? How did you guys set this up? Snow Leopard: *Destroys everything in a hundred meter radius* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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