JmOz Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Okay I am working on a story idea here: So rough bones, I have an electric hero in the group. Viper is trying to capture the hero Reason they want to drain the electric hero to use his energy in a resurection prossess of a super soldier villain. Essentialy I see a mad scientist resurecting Zombies, and Viper agents... Help me flush it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateMousje Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 ... so what makes using the hero's electrical power superior to regular and more easily accessible sources of power? Other than for fun, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superskrull Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 When in doubt, pile on cheese... The Mad Doctor Klaus Von Klankenhaussen recently unearthed the unique and long-thought wholly imaginary notebooks of Dr Frankenstien. Chortling with glee, the bad doctor has contacted VIPER and arranged to kill two birds with one stone for them. His experiments with the legendary electrical techniques in his possession has shown that the "electricity of life" needed to create his new minions (and a date for Saturday night) requires the powers of biologically generated electricity to do more than create a shambling husk of a man. Elelctric eels being in short supply, he has recently hired third tier supervillain, Zapmaster J and drained the poor sod dry of every last erg he could muster. Sadly, while this has proved insufficient to create more than a few superzombies, he has proof of his skills and VIPER is more than willing to point him towards our unsuspecting heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Drawing heavily on Superskrull's idea, bio-electricity is needed to make a resurrection permanent. Other sources of electricity allow temporary resurrection with extremely limited intelligence and base motivations. The "mad scientist" creates short-term zombies to perfect the resurrection process, then (as Superskrull suggested) uses a low-power electical supervillain to create stronger minions. Unfortunately, the supervillain used is an alien or man/animal hybrid, so the process isn't to the scientist's satisfaction. He needs a bio-electrical source closer to the deceased supersoldier's DNA to make the process work on that supersoldier. That is why he needs that hero. (Perhaps the hero can learn he is a distant relation to the supersoldier; VIPER doesn't know this, but a sample of the hero's blood collected after a prior battle revealed DNA similarities.) The scientist might even surmise that the hero is in some way related to the supersoldier and send agents to investigate the supersoldier's family tree hoping to figure out the hero's secret identity. This allows preliminary encounters (the normal zombies), some investigation (into VIPER breaking into family members' houses and stealing address books, geneology papers, etc.), building up to the climactic battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayday Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 I like their ideas very much, but on a technical level you could say using machine generated power would be a technomancer which Frankenstein II being a necromancer, well, he just cant do it. Wasn't what he was taught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Previously this was attempted through use of other BIO-ELECTRIC sources, like eels, but they could never generate enough of a charge nor for long enough. So they turned to our hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost who Walks Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 (One of the NPC's IMC) Dr. Francis Stein: Physician, surgeon, and Humanitarian. Is it his faukt that his creator made him nearly 200 years ago, and he requires organs and skin from the recently deceased to disguise his undead state. Of course not...he works with disabled children, and is a great guy. Too bad about his divorce... Only problm is, VIPER has uncovered part of his secret, and is blackmailing him to bring numerous old VIPER villains back to life. Of course the revived corpses will have no knowledge of their former lives. Dr. Stein secretly installs a microcomputer in each revived corpse, to provide basic morals and knowledge. The hero is captured, and used to revive the zombies...whose side will they be on when Dr. Stein frees the hero and helps him escape? So far as why use the Hero? Because if they try and get the ammounts of power they need from the electric company, the local power plant will get suspicious. You don't want to piss off the utilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superskrull Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 See! Electricity + corpses = hours of gaming fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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