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Your votes for the RIP the Umbrella Draft  

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  1. 1. (Pick Three) Your favorite three ideas are...

    • Black Hole Fun
      4
    • The Cold Sting
      3
    • The Council of Marvels
      5
    • Cthulhu, Interrupted or Fighting Madness With Madness
      5
    • It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
      2
    • Of Mice and Mendacity
      4
    • Vengeance by the Light of the Silvery Moon
      2
    • When the Bough Breaks
      2
    • The Titleless Doom that really has some promising characters picked but don't they all?
      2

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Some amazing ideas flew fast and furious, and if there was a weak link it was the commish of the draft (your truly) needing to clone himself because RL does not respect the draft!

 

We've got ideas marvelous and macabre, mighty and mousey alike...and some music.

 

I'll edit for details shortly, please pick your top three favs.

 

And thanks to everyone who participated. I hope you had some fun! 

Our contestants are...

 

BLACK HOLE FUN

The Starting Point:

Birth date: Oct 31, 1971

Reunion date: July 4th, 1990

Location: Los Angeles Area

The Parent:  The Chief (Dr. Niles Caulder)

 

Adopted Sibling #1:  Kitty Pryde

Adopted Sibling #2:  Tenzil Kem (Matter Eater Lad)

Adopted Sibling #3: Matt Murdock

Adopted Sibling #4: Jamie Madrox

Adopted Sibling #5: Robbie Baldwin (aka Speedball)

Adopted Sibling #6: Helen Parr

Adopted Sibling #7 Theresa Cassidy

Hunter One: Deadshot

Hunter Two: Catman

The Organization: Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M)

Protagonist Support: Barbara Gordon

Apocalypse itself: In the late 80s, AIM was building it's own super-collider in the desert outside Las Vegas. Their goal was the mass acquisition of anti-matter. Their result was actually a black hole! 

Option 1: Giganta

Option 2: Otto Octavius

SOUNDTRACK

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

Big Girls Don't Cry by the Four Seasons

End of the world (Great Big Sea version)

 

The Cold Sting

Starting Point:  January 31, 1936

Reunion:  August 24, 1954

Location: Washington, D.C.

 

Parent:  Britt Reid (The Green Hornet)

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Tandy Bowen

Adopted Sibling #2: Nico Minoru 

Adopted Sibling #3: Xi'an Coy Manh

Adopted Sibling #4:  Colleen Wing

Adopted Sibling #5:  Alice Warner (Meet the Skrulls)

Adopted Sibling #6: Tinya Wazzo (Phantom Girl)

Adopted Sibling #7 : Callisto

Hunter One: Taskmaster

Hunter Two: Deathstroke

The Organization: SCORPIA (Alex Rider)

Protagonist Support: Mary Poppins

Apocalypse itself: Nuclear War

Option 1: Kato

Option 2: Secret Head of SCORPIA:  Cigarette Smoking Man (X-FIles)

Soundtrack

Cold, Cold Heart by Tony Bennet

That Old Black Magic by Frank Sinatra 

Wonderful Wonderful by Johny Mathias

Shake, Rattle, and Roll by Billy Haley and the Comets

World is Waiting for the Sunrise

 

The Council of Marvel

The Starting Point:

Birth date: March 4th, 2001

Reunion date: March 4th, 2019

 Location: Sydney, Australia. 

The Parent:  Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Kamala Khan

Adopted Sibling #2: Mary Marvel

Adopted Sibling #3: Donna Troy

Adopted Sibling #4 M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse.

Adopted Sibling #5:  Big Barda / Barda Free

Adopted Sibling #6: Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn

Adopted Sibling #7 Sue Storm

Hunter One: Granny Goodness

Hunter Two: Black Adam

The Organization: SHIELD

Protagonist Support: Shazam the Wizard.

Apocalypse itself: The destruction of the Rock of Eternity

Option 1: The Rock of Eternity

Option 2: Phyla-Vell

SOUNDTRACK

 

Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster (Remastered)

Adrift in Ether

 

Cthulhu, Interrupted  or  Fighting Madness With Madness 

The Starting Point:

Birthdate: August 24, 1968

Reunion Date: Christmas Eve, 1985

Location: Eastland Boarding School for Girls (and Edna's Edibles)

The Parent: Edna Garret

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Anne Marie LeBeau (Aka Rogue)

Adopted Sibling #2: Jessica Jones

Adopted Sibling #3: Rachel Roth aka Raven

Adopted Sibling #4: Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch

Adopted Sibling #5: Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy

Adopted Sibling #6: Selina Kyle aka Catwoman

Adopted Sibling #7 Jean Grey aka Dark Phoenix

Hunter One: Prof. Hugo Strange

Hunter Two: The Joker

The Organization: The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane

Protagonist Support: Tyler Durden

Apocalypse itself: Cthulhu Awakens, The Outer Gods Return, And The Earth Dies Screaming In Madness

Option 1: Gremlins

Option 2: Shoggoths

SOUNDTRACK

People are strange by the Doors

Insane in the Brain by Cypress HIlls

Suicidal Tendencies--Institutionalized

 

It's the End of the World as we Know it ,and I feel fine

The Starting Point: Birthdate 1990

Reunion Now

The Parent: Lex Luthor

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Nightwing aka Dick Grayson (Unpowered spot taken)

Adopted Sibling #2: Kara Danvers

Adopted Sibling #3: Roy Harper (who generates Arrows)

Adopted Sibling #4: Wally West

Adopted Sibling #5: Kyle Rayner (He don't need no ring)

Adopted Sibling #6: Laurel Lance

Adopted Sibling #7 Orion

Hunter One:  Parademons

Hunter Two: Steppenwolf

The Organization: Darkseid

Protagonist Support: Dr. Doom

Apocalypse itself: Darkseid closes the world to the source, destroying it

Option 1: The Tesseract 

Option 2:

Music 'It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)' by REM

 

Of Mice and Mendacity

Birth date: 30 April 1945

Reunion date: 13 August 1961 (16 years, 4 months, 13 days later)

Location: Berlin, Germany

The Parent: Professor Ludwig Von Drake

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Mighty Mouse

Adopted Sibling #2: Speedy Gonzalez 

Adopted Sibling #3: Atomic Mouse

Adopted Sibling #4 The Brain

Sibling 5: Rocket J Squirrel

Sibling 6: Harvey

Sibling 7: Tippy-Toe

 

Hunter One: Greebo (from Discworld)

Hunter Two: Rat on a Stick vendors worldwide

The Organization: The Galactic Civil Service, who manifest on Earth in the form of the Vogons. Amending Douglas Adams's source material for our story, it seems that the Galaxy has added some annoying bits to the Galactic Code so that you cannot destroy a planet while any life remains on it. So the Vogon Constructor Fleet must, as a prerequisite for destroying Earth to make way for the bypass, ascertain that there is no life here, and the easiest way to do that is to kill it all. Rodents being the most numerous type of the dominant biological class on Earth, turning all the rodents into brain-controlled zombie killing machines seems like a way of making that happen while allowing the Vogons to have plausible deniability with respect to the extirpation.

 

Protagonist Support: Mr. Ping (From Kungfu Panda)

Apocalypse itself: Remote gene control turns all rodents ... including the Siblings, it seems ... into zombie hunt-everything killers

Option 1: Squirrel Girl

Option 2: Bronze Rat

THEME MUSIC: Back Into Hell from Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II. (More music will be selected.)

Eye of the Zombie, title cut from an album by John Fogerty

Brain Damage, from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Animal Rights from deadmau5's 4×4=12 disk, completing the utter ambiguity of who the good guys and bad guys are (and what role Squirrel Girl plays) in this movie/comic/story/whatever, and

* Prince of Darkness from the Indigo Girls' eponymous album, which again leads into the theme of combating monstrous evil which manifests in a billion broken fragments of misery but leaves no clear target of an enemy to strike at

Vengeance by the Light of the Silvery Moon

The Starting Point: 

Birth date: March 4th, 2001

Reunion date: March 4th, 2019

Location: New York City

The Parent: Parent: Marc Spector (deceased)

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Imra Ardeen (in another life, saturn girl)

Adopted Sibling #2: Courtney Whitmore

Adopted Sibling #3: Richard Rider

Adopted Sibling #4: Kevin Conner 

Adopted Sibling #5: Lunella Lafayette (Who in this version turns INTO the  dinosaur)

Adopted Sibling #6: Roberto Da Costa 

Adopted Sibling #7: Thaddeus Bach (in another world, Space Ghost)

Hunter One: Luciphage Starbreaker

Hunter Two: Proxima Midnight

The Organization: The Cult of the Dragon of the Moon

Protagonist Support: Maria Hill

Apocalypse itself: The Moon is in danger!

Option 1: Knonshu, Egyptian God of the Moon

Option 2: Heather Douglas

THEME MUSIC

Introductory music: Clair de Lune as interpreted by Isao Tomita

Bad Moon Rising, by Credence Clearwater Revival

 

When the Bough Breaks

 

The Starting Point: Smallville Kansas, 

1986 is the birth date. The reunion date is 2016

The Parent:  Clark Kent, Superman

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Kon-El, Superboy

Adopted Sibling #2: Validus

Adopted Sibling #3: Karen Starr (aka powergirl)

Adopted Sibling #4: Mon-El

Adopted Sibling #5: Kevin Green (aka PRIME)

Adopted Sibling #6: Jo Nah (aka Ultraboy)

Adopted Sibling #7 Cassie Sandmark

Hunter One: Agent K

Hunter Two: Agent J

The Organization: Legion of Super Villains

Protagonist Support: Rick Dicker

Apocalypse itself: Time Travel troubles , Validus from baby to rampage

Option 1: Fatal Five

Option 2: Rond Vidar

 

The Titleless Doom that really has some promising characters picked but don't they all?

The Starting Point:

Birthdate: 2/21/1977

Reunion Date: 08/17/1996

Location:  Santa Clara, California 

Parent: Lottery Winner, Inventor,  and amateur Avengers Villain, Fabian Stankowicz

 

Adopted Sibling #1: Meagan Puceanu

Adopted Sibling #2: Doug Ramsey

Adopted Sibling #3:  Kahina Eskandari

Adopted Sibling #4 Maya Lopez 

Adopted Sibling #5 : Piotr Nickolaievitch Rasputin

Adopted Sibling #6 Llywelyn Lambert (name given by Enforcer) aka Scattermane

Adopted Sibling #7: Hisako Ichiki (Armor)

Hunter One:

Hunter Two:

The Organization:

Protagonist Support:

Apocalypse itself:

Option 1:

Option 2:

 

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5 minutes ago, Pariah said:

Thanks for running this, Hermit. Your sacrifice and diligence are appreciated!  :thumbup: 

 

Thanks, but in truth I meant to do more. I'm a bit in awe at some of the choices made by folks and will be ripping off..err.. homaging such choices later in some games I think

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So my idea is this. introducing The Council of Marvel. 

 

In the year 2050, the Rock of Eternity was attacked by an unknown enemy. Of the Council of Eternity (these guys) only Shazam the Wizard escaped.

 

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Shazam arrived on Earth in the distant past. He had some mild amnesia. 

 

During WW2, Shazam & Granny Goodness we’re part of a ultra top secret SHIELD project involving xenobiology. We are talking aliens (Kree, martians), Inhumans, Amazons, and New Gods. 

 

Carol Danvers followed Shazam and joined SHIELD  and rose up the ranks. Now we don’t know if Shazam is Carol’s father, grandfather or great grandfather or ancestor, but they are related somehow. By the same token, we don’t know if Granny is Carol’s mother, or any sibling  relationship Carol has with Black Adam, if any. 

 

Both Granny Goodness and Black Adam are Agents of SHIELD. 

 

As of the reunion, Carol and Shazam, are no longer part of SHIELD. The split was acrimonious and it seems it was due to the children. 

 

And that leaves the children: Kamala, Mary, Donna, Megan, Barda, Harleen, Sue and Phyla. Shazam suspects the kids are the reincarnated souls of the Council of Eternity but is keeping this a secret. 

 

The kids meanwhile and started to call themselves “The Council of Marvel”. 

 

We still don’t know what Granny’s connections to Barda, or if Mary Marvel is the daughter or granddaughter to Shazam. It’s all part of the intrigue. Was Granny or Black Adam previously members of the Council of Eternity and reborn into their present identities? 

 

What stake does SHIELD has in this? How do they benefit from the destruction of the Rock of Eternity in the year 2050? 

 

Stay tuned...

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And as we have another Superdraft rolling, and warning was given, I hereby declare the 'Rip the Umbrella' Superdraft done...

and the Winner is... (Pulls out Envelope) "What's this? Ladies and gents, with the addition of one more day, we have a TIE... this has never happened before in all the history of..."

 

*Whisper from assistant*

 

"It has? Plenty of times now eh? Oh.. well, that's a buzzkill" Ahem "The CO Winners for first place are... OLD MAN for his work on "Cthulhu, Interrupted" aka "Fighting Madness With Madness""

 

"And Bazza, for his 'Council of Marvels' They both get to fight to the death over this nebulously shaped statuette that might be real, might be Mabelline!" 

 

*Another whisper* "No death duel? Well these awards just suck and... oh right.. Runners up include "Black Hole Fun" by Logan, and "Of Mice and Mendacity" by Cancer. Five dollar coupons off any Slurm product is being sent to them in the mail maybe but probably not. Remember, SLURM, it's the drink that ain't what you think and a proud sponsor of these events"

 

Seriously though, some good work from everyone going just a bit wild but still having some fantastic themes and plans... or in some cases concepts. Thank you all for participating, and all those who voted.

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