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Highwayman

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  1. Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question)
  2. Re: Things You'd See in a World Full of Supers... Did anyone see supermutt do it? If not, what are they going to do, send the "material" to the crime lab for analysis? I don't think that you can get much usefull for Identification from poo. I think you could get DNA off of that. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it would be pretty low on the crime lab's list of priorities. On the third hand, trickle-down superscience could mean the lab could do CSI-style 60-second DNA tests and get through that list a lot faster.
  3. Re: Things You'd See in a World Full of Supers...
  4. Re: Three Villians, one picture, no ideas.. One Contest... Wow, lots of good ideas here. Here's what came to my mind. God, the Devil, and Dr. Bob Most people who meet Dr. Robert Zinn ("Please, call me Bob.") come away thinking of him as somewhat intense but otherwise friendly and dedicated psychiatrist. Of course, any psychiatrist will tell you sociopaths make the best liars. He was always good at convincing people to do what he wanted, and his psychological training only made him better. He had a good thing going for a while scamming rich neurotics, but all good things must come to a review board, and it took all of his skills and most of his money to keep his license and land a new job in a state hospital. If his new patients didn't have money, he could at least take kickbacks to test experimental drugs on them. And if two of them happened to have interesting reactions, well, now there was something he could really use. If his methods are no longer particularly subtle, it's just the nature of the tools he has to work with. Besides, who could blame a man in his situation for looking for a little catharsis? Jeffrey Wade's delusions of godhood certainly weren't helped when he developed some serious telekinetic power. He finds Dr. Bob's prayers pleasing, and what he's being humbly petitioned can't be wrong, because them by definition he couldn't do it, right? His wardrobe consists of a wide selection of clerical outfits (After all, who is better entitled to wear them?) and the expression of one who can do no wrong. Dennis Schafer, on the other hand, has been an extremely unhappy soul since the day he realized he was Satan. In fact, he hates the idea. Oh, he agrees with Dr. Bob that as the embodiment of all evil he should be out stealing and destroying, but he's miserable the whole time. It doesn't help that the destructive sonic blasts he generates become more destructive the more upset he becomes over the destruction he is causing. He made his Devil suit because he had to, not because he wanted to, and it shows.
  5. Re: What if Dr. Destroyer.... I see him the world conquest game solely for ego gratification. As a ruler, I picture this guy, turned up to 11, with superscience. You can't swing a cat without hitting a giant gold statue. (Hitting such a statue with a cat is, of course, punishable by death) Sure, the hungry will be fed and diseases will be cured (assuming this doesn't cut to deep into the giant gold statue and deathbot budgets), but first and formost as a way to demonstrate the genius and munificence of Destroyer. Every TV channel will be more than happy to tell you about it, as will Destroyer himself on the holographic talking labels of the food and vaccine packages. He wouldn't encourage cults, since such religious nonsense is foolish and unscientific, but if the weak-minded find some comfort in worshiping him, who is he to object? In most places, the old rulers are still in place, with obedience enforced by brainwashing, hostages, cortex bombs, or what have you. Ex-VIPER troopers, War Machine deserters, and assorted opportunists and collaborators garrison the major cities, backed by the afformentioned deathbots. The fanatic core of his troops guard vital installations and sereve as a strike force against rebellions. If he can't figure out a way around the aging thing, I see him eventually going the way of the Emperor in Warhammer 40K, kept just barely technically alive by massive machines as his minions work to conquor the universe in his name.
  6. Re: Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac Master Mind claims to have planted a series of stolen Soviet nukes in and around the Canary Islands. Unless he is paid an insane ransom, he will detonate the nukes, setting off massive landslides and creating a devestating tsunami. He has, of course, anticipated some heroes will try to intervene, and has some supervillian minions and carefully-crafted deathtraps waiting for them...
  7. Re: Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac What happens when meglomaniacs cooporate? Dr. Noah has been working on a contagious transformation retrovirus, but can't quite get it right. Dr. Anthrax wants the samples in a top-secret biowarfare lab, but can't find human minions with the special abilities needed to penetate the security...
  8. Re: The Champions Universe Without The Champions. How Hard Can It Be? Or you could assume the team broke up just before the PCs appeared. Nightwing's already gone. Like Tom said, it would be easy to picture Sapphire getting pulled away by her career and Witchcraft choosing to concentrate on the mystic side of things. Ironclad could join another team or just fade into the background. And maybe some crisis hits HI, and Defender has to drop the superhero thing to run the company full-time. End result, no Champions, but a potential team sponsor with a nice big empty potential HQ.
  9. Re: What comic book villains would make cool heroes, and vice versa? Well, he could have followed the example of the other DC character I can think of who was a normal criminal until a botched chemical plant robbery...
  10. Re: Alien Mysteries of the Champions Universe
  11. Re: Some questions about Stronghold As far as "one-size-fits-all" supressor fields, it occurs to me that most powers that aren't plain old magic are justified with technology, psychic powers, access to other dimensions, or grossly misinterpreted quantum mechanics. A technology supression field isn't completely implausible, and it's been established the CU has mechanical mental shields, so an anti-psi field could work. If you combined the first two with some kind of handwavium-generated field that nullified the last two, you'd shut down the majority of powers.
  12. Re: Alien Mysteries of the Champions Universe And then there's Dr. Destroyer's never-explained super-brainwashing technique, and the fact immunity to it seems to run in families... Of course, it may not be a matter of using Elder Worm technology so much as exploiting a backdoor the Elder Worms left in human brains. Which is not to say overuse might have some interesting effects.
  13. Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Very nice, but the link didn't work for me. I found it here: http://www.iniciative.com.br/edu/heroomatic/index.html I take it that it's a work in progress, since two of the five models they have on the front page don't show up as selections.
  14. Re: DEMON plot help (Warning: Spoilers) Nice, very nice. Of course, the question is how do the PCs fit into all of this? Maybe it could go like this. The Liber can summon souls to the mortal plane and either free them or control them. Van der Beek and the Hierarchy want to control Devil Dog's soul, of course. The PCs would presumably have different ideas, assuming they had previously encountered Devil Dog and figured out who he really is. Then it's a matter of tracking Van der Beek as he gathers the mystic artifacts he needs to forge the crown, presumably ending in a climatic battle with hordes of demonic minions for the new Crown Of Lucifier, with the soul of a hero in the balance...
  15. Re: Ground Zero Build My idea for a Fusion character was five nuclear technicians accidentially fused into one tough, superstrong being, with the five personalities taking turns controling the body. Most of them are violently unhappy with the situation. In combat, one mind fights while the others observe and plan. Brings five brains' worth of nuclear science and technical know-how to the party.
  16. Re: How long does tech last after The End? Sounds like his best bet is to become god-king of the local cavemen and get them to build his dams, mine his metals, and do the rest of the grunt work. Then all he has to do is lead them to some hidden valley or Hollow Earth pocket or somesuch that was unknown to the world at large when he left, tell them "stay put until I come back," and step out of his time machine in the 21st century into a hidden high-tech civilization that worships him as a god...
  17. Re: Hanging monastaries of the world At least according to one of the signs in the photos, the first one is guarded by giant wasps.
  18. Re: Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues
  19. Re: Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues
  20. Re: Luthor's Lair I like the details on the henchladies. I owe you some sexy rep.
  21. Re: Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World Yeah. Everything I've heard about this guy just screamed "supervillain," but that picture sealed the deal. It's like he was trying to make his own Latveria, except without the competence.
  22. Re: Istvatha V'han - why can't she conquer Earth? Nah, it's because mystics have a bad habit of dealing in extradimensional forces and gates. It's bad for dimensional security and infringes on V'han's job description. If you're caught, you get a choice between signing up with the offical Mystic Corps or exile to a magic-nullifying dimension.
  23. Re: After DEMON wins... I’d suggest it would be more survivable if the PCs arrive after the Kings have moved on. There’s no reason they (or Black, now that he’s one of them) would stick around Earth when they’ve got a whole universe to play in. They used the world like we would use a paper cup; drink it dry, crumple it, and throw it aside. Now the skies are red, the oceans are gone, and the cities look like a Dali painting. Only a few unlucky humans are still alive, unmutated, and sane enough to notice the new landscape. They live in tiny improvised strongholds and try to hold off the lesser things that are creeping through the shattered barrier between the Kings’ world and ours. Time and space themselves are behaving oddly, and it’s getting worse. Either the Earth is falling into the Kings’ world or the Kings’ world is taking over our universe, but either way the Sun’s getting dimmer and the meteors falling from the shattered Moon are screaming in a more disturbing way every day…
  24. Re: [WhatIf] Mechanon took control of the Minute Man VII Robots? Heck, just turn up the sensitivity of the mutant detectors until anyone with even a slight variance off theoretical "pure human" genes registers as a mutant. It's simple, effective, and you you get the see the look on the IHA meatbags' faces when their own robots start hunting them down as "mutants."
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