Highwayman

Re: Legality of masks New York State has a similar law, but it only applies to gatherings of three or more people. I believe it was passed in the ‘20s to stop KKK parades. There’s an exception that covers Halloween parades, costume parties, plays, and such.

Re: [Humour]SciFi TV Quotes More Firefly goodness: Zoe: Preacher -- don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps. River: No power in the 'verse can stop me. [Zoe, Wash, and Jayne burst in on Mal, grappling with a much larger man. Zoe puts her hand up.] Zoe: Jayne. This is something the captain has to do for himself. Mal: No. No, it's not! Zoe: Oh. [Zoe, Wash and Jayne empty their weapons] And, of course: Jayne: I'll be in my bunk.

Re: weird villain concepts Starfish-Hitler? Starfish-Hitler? (And yes, it is a cross between a starfish and Adolph Hitler. Apparently, the Kamen Riders also fought Spider-Napoleon, Ant-Capone, Tiger Nero, and Scorpion-Geronimo Jr.)

Re: Adventure Seeds--Title Tag “Whatever Happened to the Liberty League?†Truth be told, the Liberty Baseball League wasn’t much, just a few minor-league teams of 4-Fs cobbled together to keep the folks entertained on the WWII homefront. That changed when a fleeing Nazi spy tried to hide out on the team bus of the Poughkeepsie Patriots and ended up dousing the entire team with the super-soldier serum he had stolen. The minor superpowers they gained weren’t enough to rate them a spot at the front, but were enough to give them a measure of fame as they traveled the country as the Liberty League, playing exhibition games and collaring mundane criminals and the occasional Axis saboteur. When the war ended, the team faded into obscurity. But recently, bodies have been turning up, very old men who died very unnatural deaths. All of them were members of the League. Who’s killing them, and why? All of their old foes are dead or incapable of killing anyone. Cryptic notes left at the scenes mention a date, a date none of the survivors will talk about. If the murders stick with the pattern, the last member will die on that date. What is their 60-year-old secret, and can the PCs uncover it before the last of the League falls? ‘A Day in the Life of (Hero or Hero Group Name)†“The China Syndrome†“Doomsday Tangoâ€

Re: Adventure Seeds--Title Tag “By the Light of the Silvery Doom†The PCs are called to look into the disappearance of a geologist acquaintance who was investigating the supposed link between the appearance of floating balls of light called “earth lights†and earthquakes. Unfortunately, in this case the lights are a side effect of a villain’s Geo-Resonator. It seems that after the villain discovered his resonator has an unusually strong effect on silver, he bought a played-out silver mine that actually still has large deposits impossible to reach by conventional means. He’s using the resonator to both extract that silver and melt it down for casting into bars. Of course, while it’s doing that it also causes random localized earthquakes and undermines the geological integrity of the entire region, but the money for his next master plan has to come from somewhere, right? I see one of two covers here: 1.) The villain preparing to drop captured heroes into a vat of molten silver, or 2.) The villain’s brick henchman overturning the vat, sending a wave of molten silver toward the onrushing heroes as the villain laughs from the sidelines. "Now, heroes, meet your DOOM!" "He's Not Mechanon, He's My Brother!" "Fist Full of Fear" "Memories of the Minotaur"

Re: Adventure Seeds--Title Tag “Grand Theft Automatron†Black Harlequin (or the toy-themed madman of your choice) has decided to give the people worried about violence in video games something to really worry about. Somewhere in Campaign City there is a Y-Box secretly rigged with a remote control. Every time it’s used to play a certain popular-but-controversial game, it sends a signal which activates robots scattered throughout the city, who proceed to act out the game in the real world. And if the heroes just smash the robots, well, he’s built a couple dozen more. What’s a video game without extra lives, after all? Besides, what fun would the final confrontation be without an army of crime-bots to fight? “Alien Invasion†“Of Mice and Mole-Men†“Make Me an Offerâ€

Re: Adventure Seeds--Title Tag 'The Man Who Praises Poison" Dr. Jonathan North’s dimensional gateway experiment worked perfectly, for a given value of perfect. It opened a gateway, just as he expected. He did not expect there would be Something on the other side, waiting to come through. Now this Thing sits in his lab, giving off weird radiation that is slowly turning all of the food, water, and even air for miles around more and more poisonous. North, his body warped by direct exposure, is immune, and in fact superpowered. His mind shattered, he is now roaming the city, praising his new god for coming to destroy the unworthy and consuming poisoned food to show his status as the Chosen One. He will react violently to anyone attempting to interfere. And, of course, the gate is still open… “Alien Invasion†“Price of No Power†“Downsizing the Deadâ€

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Re: Religious that won't emigrate I lived near an area with a small Amish population for a while. The particular sect that had settled there (and there are several, with all kinds of shades of opinion on modern technology) had no objection to riding in cars, just to owning them. And since farming is their ideal occupation, there's always a need to find land for their children. I could see them going off-planet if the technology was available and affordable.

Re: Plot for Mastermind Maybe his ultimate goal a return to hunting and gathering. “It’s environmentally sustainable and much less stressful than modern life. I should know, right? Why, back when I was your age… anyway, with a few genetic tweaks to prevent disease and the elimination of the majority of the human population, it would be paradise. Of course, one highly qualified person would have to keep some technology. For emergencies. And to maintain social control, that person would have to use that technology to create a worldwide religion, centered on himself…there's no other way for the human race to survive in the long term, really.â€

Re: Plot for Mastermind Some millennia ago, Mastermind set up a self-contained biological habitat in a deep underground cavern and populated it with a variety of genetically-engineered humans. The variant which eventually survives and dominates the habitat will clearly be the correct template for the new human race. Unfortunately, an earthquake/experimental digging machine/Villain X/Hero Y has broken the seals, and his experiments are now loose in the world. Superpowers are simply too destructive to be allowed in the utopia Mastermind’s planning, and he thinks he’s found a way to permanently eliminate them. True, the treatment caused his first test subject’s powers to flare out of control, allowing him to break out of the lab and go on a berserk rampage through the city, but he’s sure he’ll get it right next time.

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Re: Need help with DEMON plot Maybe the local Demonhame goes into overdrive, committing increasing horrible and inhuman acts tailored specifically to get the heroine angry and provoke more and more extreme reactions. Finally, the clues add up, pointing to a New Agey cult as the Demonhame’s cover, and indicating that they’re about to do something truely horrific. That is, of course, a lie. The plan is for the Black Shepherd to show up just as she realizes her anger has caused her to slaughter a room full of innocent people. Bleek is the monkey wrench in this. He’s leaving clues pointing to the setup. He doesn’t kill her outright because he doesn’t know what Black’s ultimate plan is, and is hoping to gain some information by watching the recruiting attempt. After all, he can always kill her later.

Re: Suggest Mayhem For My Game! Or, if you want to move things along, just one of them could appear to the PCs. "My brethren grow impatient with this stain. If the minions of the Enemy still walk the Earth seven days hence, there shall be fire."

Re: TOS Star Trek and The Warp Drive I’m picturing them as the first assignment for a new CIA recruit. “Johnson, we’re putting you on the MILF desk.â€

Re: So I ran my Island of Dr. Destroyer one off... Too bad it's not a campaign. Getting pumped full of experimental drugs and doused in nuclear waste all on the same day screams "future plot development."

Re: What to do with a winged ex-heroine? Maybe after a while in Hell she gets an offer she can’t refuse: They’ll stop with the torment if she’ll agree to get Taurus and the ex-demon PC back. It seems Taurus’ escape and the PC's defection screwed up the mystical balance somehow, and the PC's replacement needs them back for his Big Evil Plan to work. So he binds her soul, infuses her with enough demonic power to get the job done, and sets her loose. The PCs' job in all of this would be to find a way to free her soul so they, Ladyhawke, and Taurus can face down the Big Evil together. Then, in the final confrontation, circumstances force Ladyhawke to go down in a blaze of glory to give the rest of them a chance to win.

Re: Hypothetical Axis Amerika 2005 It might be a dramatic possibility for the PCs to come in just as the wheels are coming off. It would be easy to imagine that by 2005 both the Third Reich and Japanese Empire would be overextended militarily and collapsing economically. (Not that you’d know that if you believed the propaganda, which nobody does anymore, although no one would be crazy enough to admit that in public.) They’ve stripped Europe and Asia bare, and their armies are stretched too thin to do the same to Africa and South America. That just leaves their American occupied territories to squeeze, and they’re starting to squeeze hard. Life was OK for a while (if your ancestry passed muster), but now it’s getting much worse. The Resistance is getting new recruits for the first time in decades. Maybe things are one dramatic event away from the beginnings of a revolution…

Re: I need a certain type of catastrophe I might be getting this wrong, but I'd think solar activity powerful enough to fry electronics on the ground would also drown out any radio or TV broadcast, even if you rebuilt the transmitters and receivers with tubes.

Re: Hypothetical Axis Amerika 2005 I'd say the first thing the Nazis would have their puppet government do is shut down all nuclear and areospace reseach, so they can maintain their advantage. Also, I have trouble seeing the Germans and the Japanese getting along for more than five minutes after the Allies are defeated. The smart thing for the Germans to do would be sic their new American "allies" on Japan. Maybe that's how the western U.S. gets a Japanese occupation, with the Germans considering that a fair tradeoff for conquering India and Siberia. And since this is a comic book universe, of course there would be a Resistance, made up of the people who cannot or will not submit to authority. In other words, the people who were villians in the original universe. Maybe the heroic fighters of VIPER are trying to cobble together a superweapon to counter the Nazi ICBMs...

Re: You called Animal Control??? I think standard procedure for exotic animals would be to call the local zoo for an expert opinion on how to handle the situation. I would assume said expert would be very much in favor of keeping them alive for study, even without knowing they can talk.

Re: I Have In My Hand A List... Real world, not too much changes, I think. A few movies get made, a few people have easier lives. Maybe there’s a slight change in the tone of politics. If McCarthy’s not calling people “Commies†in the ‘50s, then maybe liberals aren’t calling people “fascists†in the ‘60s, and conservatives aren’t calling people “traitors†now. Comic book world, as much change as you want. If Ultra Man isn’t drummed out of the hero biz, he could stop the Chinese in Korea, save Kennedy, whatever you want him to do. Or he could go back to fighting Dr. Malicious, like he did before, and history rolls on unchanged. Of course, if your history had superheroes showing up in the ‘30s, like most do, the next generation would be taking over in the late ‘50s-early ‘60s anyway.

Re: Team: The Vaudevillains! Perhaps My Lovely Assistant is outwardly normal, no particular skills or talents, but unconsciously manipulates reality to make those around her more talented and powerful. When she’s around, the Human Computer really can think as fast as a computer, El Mysterio can pull off serious magic, and the Guru’s flexibility becomes inhuman. She's the key to the whole team, and doesn't know it. Could make it interesting if, after the Vaudevillians are taken care of, a serious villain deduces what her power is, or if she figures it out for herself.

Re: Super Agencies of Other Countries in CU I figure the USSR would have had a PRIMUS-equivalent, both as backup for their superteam and to make sure they didn't try anything funny. It probably would have gone out of business with the rest of the Soviet Union, likely flooding the black market with blasters and the mercenary world with agents and technicians. Russia probably has some kind of superhuman response force, but they have to make do with conventional weapons.

Re: Superman for President? A villain with a billionaire industrialist secret ID (and there always has to be one of them, right?) might back Paragon in the hopes of winning his trust and landing the contract for the big supers defense project, which he would them subvert to his own ends. A villain might also do some dirty tricks to get Paragon elected, then try and blackmail him later with forged evidence that he knew about it and approved.