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i would sugget you create a super-duper international criminal organization bent on taking over the world, and then give them what they need to actually do it! they could even start recruiting/creating/eliminating several world-class villans, taking over small countries, co-opting or out-right taking over major international firms..... hell--why not go full-bore anime and have giant mecha running around!!--the combination of awsome hi-tech, MEGA-villans, and butt-loads of faceless minions should be enough to keep your group busy for a while....

base-boards no really--how about an intruder pacification system?--very useful, especially if the characters don't take appropriate steps to protect themselves.... (mr spock, flood all decks with neuro-zine!!--i mean every deck except this one--oh, crap!!)

ACTUALLY darkwing dark is a (quite hilarious) rip-off of THE SHADOW, as are batman, and numerous others, to some degree...(minus the humor, of course) take equal parts SHADOW, and DOC SAVAGE--and sprinkle in a little of THE PHANTOM (AKA THE GHOST WHO WALKS) for flavor--ay voila! yo have THE BATMAN....

jamie justice (patriotic, post-adolescent, powerpuff girl) 1. she would pound him into the ground like a nail, all the time making comments like the following--"you traitor!!" "you bastard!", "you Scum!" "how could you?!" 2. since jamie has a public id, her bringing the scum in should have been taken as a given--however if it did come up, she'd probably say something along these lines: "honey, i love you, and would never do anything to hurt you, but you knew when we got married that i was a super-person--this is what super-people do!" "i'm sorry that your brother got involved. if i could have waved a magical, pink fairy wand (with a unicorn on the end, and pink ribbons and sparkles) and made this all go away i would have--then i would do the same for all the other brother-in-laws out there--and sister-in-laws, too, if they needed it--and the skunks--especially the skunks, because if anyone needs to know that they're special in the eyes of lord, it's the poor, unloved, misbegotten, skunk." "we will get through this!--as long as we have our love, we can make it through anything--no matter what adversity life may choose to throw at us, we can lick it and make it beg, beg like a skunk at a kissing booth--our love will see us through!!! ....and my billions and billions of dollars won't hurt much on that accord either....!"

how about having to fight someone really dangerous in a room lined floor to ceiling with black powder explosives?--btw, did i mention the kids and puppies trapped in there with him?

and more StarVenger....

more StarVenger....

here's my other character--StarVenger--Intergalactic Agent of Justice!!

Thank you for your interest in the Power Brigade Super Hero team, please fill out this form to the best of your ability. Should you require special equipment (Heat proof pencils, etc) in order to complete this form, it will be provided. The Power Brigade does not share this information with any other civilian source, but maybe required to share it with certain govt ones (at risk of losing our tax exempt status). Please be as honest as you can. Super Hero Name:JAMIE JUSTICE (Optional)Secret Idenity/Alternate Name:JAMIE J JUSTICE--the "J" is for "Jemima," which is what my daddy named me, on account of how much he loves pancakes, his favorite kind being "Mrs. Butterworth's," but "Jamie Mrs. Butterworth's Justice" was a little to much to ask folks to recollect.... (Optional)Ethnic Group/Species:100% RED-BLOODED AMERICAN--although I can't say as I've met any Americans whose blood weren't red, and now that I think about it, I don't know if I would really like too.... Place of Birth:America Date of Birth: On my birthday, silly!! (I swear this is the silliest old computerated formula I've ever had to fill out!!) Question 1. How did you hear about the Power Brigade team? Well, that's an interesting story--I was on the intrernet, looking to see if any of the villans I had fought had posted any more of those pictures of me, you know, like the ones those VIPER agents took of me that time I got captured--the ones with the tennis balls, jumper cables and dancing widget-people.... ....Anyway, I was looking for some more of THOSE pictures, when I stumbled onto your cute little site and decided to fill out your intrernet-formula-thingy.... Question 2. What do you feel you can offer (Both in Super heroic powers/gifts and your knowledges) to the Power Brigade team? Well, first of all, I am a very nice person--I always do my best to be bright and cheerful--helpful and kind to those less fortunate, and rich than I am. I make frequent public appearances at charity functions and wrestling matches. I also like to help out the team by buying them things, as I have a lot of money. I also have many wonderful (and patriotic) costumes that I am always wearing to help instiltify a sense of love and appreciation for the beauty of America (which I am always trying to represent) I can also fly and pick up a tank and bullets and stuff bounce off me.... and I'm really, really nice Question 3. Why do you wish to join our team, and what do you hope for if you join? I don't really want to join your team--I just wanted to talk and make friends, 'cause like my daddy's always told me, he says," Sport!(That's me!!)--A man can never have too many friends in this world...." And even though I am not a man, I think that rule still applies.... And I'll tell you what, if he's said that to me once, he's said that to me a MILLION times!--Why if i had a dollar for every time I've heard hism say it, I'd have almost as much money as I do now.... Question 4. Have you ever been on a super hero team before? If so, which one(s) and why are you no longer a member? Well, for a little while before we officially formed S.U.P.A--"Super-people United to Protect Anybody"--originally, we were --"Super-people United to Protect AMERICA, " but a few of us was worried that some of those that were not Americans, "per se," would not let us protect them--so we changed the name.... Anyway, my friends THE MOIDELIZER, and MS TRIVET and I worked together--I wouldn't really call it a team, however, as MS TRIVET spent most of that time trying to escape, or turning herself into vegetables--but we did managed to capture a very dangerous criminal made of CLAY-DO ®, before his other toy friends came and got him.... But anyway, as I said before--I'm not lookin' to quit S.U.P.A.--I'm just "putting my breast foot forward," in terms of networkitizing with other members of the super-person community.... Question 5. Are you a supervillain, govt agent, law enforcement official, media person, or anyone else who is attempting to infilitrate the Power Brigade? No--i'm not a villan-person, as that would mean that I was not very nice--which as anyone can see, i am. I am a government law enforcementator, and media personality. I have appeared on the covers of MAXIM, FHM, STUFF, ESQUIRE (they called me their favorite patriotic super-heroine, and said something about how I "....aroused strong feelings towards America in every male who saw me--red-blooded American or not....") FORBES and BUSINESS WEEKLY. The BUSINESS WEEKLY cover was especially nice, in that on it I was lying naked in a pile of money--kinda like that other girl did in that movie--which I didn't actually see, so I don't know for sure what the name of it was, but I DO know that the word "American" was in the title, so I'm sure it was full of wholesome, family values....) And as for that last thing--I'm not even really sure what insul...infer....I'm not even really sure what that word you said means.... Question 6. How often will you be availible to fight crime and save the world? What schedule would be best for you? I'm always fighting crime!! Either that, or shopping! Or watching my new favoritest movie, "Lilo and Stitch...." Question 7: Do you have some disability, ailment, or other situation (Occasional Demonic possession, intense allergy to space rocks, etc) that our scientists, doctors, and mystics should take into account? I'm not sure what it is you're trying to ask me....? One situation that comes up a lot is where someone tries to stuff something in my mouth. Sometimes it's something big and round, like a tennis ball, sometimes it's the opposite.... I'm not too sure why it happens so much, but it does! Alot!--especially when I make appearances at comic or sci/fi conventions. It also happens a lot with my teamates--well, not all of my teamates--mostly only COUGAR, but SHARKEY says he likes to watch.... Question 8. To what degree do you comply with the law? Are you registered? I believe in doing everything legal, that I can, as it is our laws that make this country great! Oh, and the people, too!--All those Americans also help make America great!!--And Disney, 'cause they make "Lilo and Stich," and "Lilo," and "Stich" are both great....! They are also both great Americans....!! Question 9. Will you be able to provide your own transporation to and from the Power Brigade HQ? Yes--I can fly and have access to jets and things like that, which also fly.... I also have lots of money, so I can afford to take a cab if I have too.... Question 10. What are your feelings on death and property damage? They are opposites--'cause one I would not like to make happen, and the other I make happen A LOT!! (All on account of the flying and punching and lifting of heavy things I do in my role as a super-person....) Question 11. Are you willing to wear our team Logo? Is it patriotic? Question 12. How may we contact you should we be interested in having you join? (Phone, mystic mirror, large signal, etc) Like I said before, I really don't want to join your group, but If you need me to help you beat up on some villan-people, or if you'd just like to make arragements for my group to meet your group, then you can call me at S.U.P.A HQ in NY, or at your local branch office of Justice Energy Technologies, and someone there will get a message to me--or you could call my cell phone, which is 1-800-JUSTICE.... Please include any additional notes about yourself you feel are relevant below: I am sending you a picture of me in the hope that seeing me in my costume will serve as an inspiritational moment for you and your teammates--one the will inspire you to love America, and to love Justice! Love, Kisses, and Ohana, Jamie Thank you for your interest in the Power Brigade. All aplications will be reviewed, if no response in 4-6 weeks, it is likely the team is currently filled. J

i should also probaly qualify my statement for the sake accuracy--i don't think that all super-heroes should wear spandex!--i DO think that a super-hero should be readily identifiable by their form of dress.... whether you are wearing spandex tights or leather body armor, people should be able to look at you and immediately say, 'SUPER ON DECK!!"--eventually they should be able to look at you and say, "LOOK--IT'S CAPT. ONION!!" also--this dress code is for SUPER-HEROES and not all people-with-powers--not everyone differentiates between the two types of characters, but i do.... ....if your group wants to play a bunch of stylisly dressed, tragically hip, genetically altered, teen-fashion models-fighting-to-protect-a-world-that-hates-and-fears-them (because they don't eat), and you want to dress in the latest fashions, go for it!!--have fun!!--do, you!! but if you're a super-hero, stand up, stand tall, try not to stand on your cape....!

i'm not questioning their taste in clothing--i run "jamie justice" for pete's sake--what i'm questioning is the lack of insight expressed by some gamers (btw--your group is an example of the exact opposite of what i'm talking about--there's an actual in game rationale for their choice of 'non-traditional' dress....) what i'm whining about is the fact that some gamers don't see that the idea of running around in spandex is uncool because it's reflective of the real world where we live, not the fictional world in which the characters exist.... ....in super-hero worlds super-heroes dress like super-heroes--it's normal and expected, and for a hero not to do so doesn't make him or her hip or cool, it makes them weird--'cool' heroes have 'cool' looking or functioning costumes, or at least stylish forms of dress that are evocative of who the hero or heroine is--it just looks weird to us because nobody (nobody outside of an anime, gaming or comic convention, at least) does things like that where we live.... think of the scene from the movie "mystery men," where the "blue rajah," and "mr furious" are chiding "the disco boys" gang for kicking their asses using regular tire chains instead of the more thematically correct GOLD tire chains (DISCO boys--get it?) ....it's funny and ironic to us watching the movie, but a reasonable critiscism from the point of view of the characters. the same principles applies to supers that act like supers but don't want to look like supers.... ...and yet these same gamers that refuse to have their characters dress like supers cause spandex costumes are 'lame' would probaly run a fantasy character that looked like they were caught in an explosion at a renaissance festival, and not even bat an eyelash.... boogles my mind, anyway....

i have never understood gamers who get all hi and mighty about not having their super-hero characters dress like super-heroes.... it's one thing if you're in a game where your characters are the first "supers," either to exist or of a new generation, but in games using the CU or the like, it just SILLY!!!--people have been doing it for years! capes and tights are THE NORM for super powered vigilantes, so much so that people are more likely to be upset about you NOT going out in colors... ....it's like deciding to be a street cop, but refusing to wear the uniform, or ride around in cool car with the flashing lights, but still running around shooting people....

my character is a psuedo celebrity--as well as being an icon of truth and justice.... and like many of today's young, female, media icons, she chooses to parade around in next to nothing, inspiring people with her protruding breasts..... the truth be told, she's really a sweet girl, just a little confused....

monstrosities i have encountered while playing champions: 1--fairly heavy duty entangles that block the senses; 2--entangles based on ego; 3--hefty area effect nnd's versus life support; 4--martial artists with absurdly high combat values and double AP/penetrating HKA's; 5--a 600pt archmage/vampirelord; 6--doorways crisscrossed with electrified (effects desolid) monofilament fibers....

an update....

this one's a WIP-- i like it though....

another of "jamie justice" in her latest costume....

thanx--here's a couple more.... as per numerous suggestions i reduced her breast size--i like this version of her and will probably keep this as one of her "default" costumes....

the dc universe version of stronghold--the slab--IS in antartica.... it got moved there last summer after the joker, thinking he had a terminal disease, doused everyone in the old location with a diluted version of joker-venom (driving them insane, and giving them joker faces) and arranged for a massive jailbreak.... transport to and from the facility is regulated by JLA teleporter technology.... i don't know what they do about foci, though....

no reddy kilowatt??

....scarlet thunderbolt? ....crimson thunderbolt? ....watt woman? ....lady lightning? ....lady blitzkrieg ....thunderclap? ....lightningstrike? ....scarlet blitzkrieg? ....blood fury? ....scarlet dynamo? ....reddy kilowatt?!?!?!?! her powers come from alien artifacts, which either were bequiethed to her ( like "nova") or she adapted to give her super power (ALA "the mandarin")

not too long ago our gm had monopole doing surveilance on our group in his civilian id--we caught on because one of the pc's character has a suseptibility of intense magnetic fields, and monopole was giving her a rash....

once played in a campaign where our party came up against "the slug" as he was attempting to resurrect his masters aka the elder wyrm--man was it brutal!! the gm tricked him up so that he had this "sensory deprivation" entangle--i still have nightmares....

the quill: a wolverine-esque teen-aged mutant that looked like a porquepine. with a "spiny" damage shield, several HTHKA's and a continuous, uncontrolled, ranged, double AP killing attack known as, "the dancing quill...." the player went out of his way to get on as many nerves, and step on as many toes as possible.... oh yeah--his battle cry was "the quill kills!!!" was one hell of a character in a fight, though.... another player who was notorious for going out of his way to build characters designed to be unstoppable by any means, in any circumstance came up with this doozy.... talos--the strongest man in the world: a 225 strength 7ft tall cyborg (with healing) that looked like a giant robotic toy, his only weakness being a psychological disavantage that "he liked kids" and would do anything for them.... ....then someone pointed all that all it would take to beat him was for some crazed scientist to create a bunch of kid androids with bombs inside, then send them out into dangerous situations, so that when talos showed up to save them--BOOM!!! soon after that talos gained the power to "detect kid...."

i posed this question to some of the folks i game with tonight--and the general consensus was that no one wanted to purchase a module in .pdf format because no one wanted to be bothered with printing the thing out, and no one had a laptop. there was much more interest in purchasing a bound product--i pulled out my new copy of the millenium city source book, and most folks took a look--one guy even asked if anyone new where to find a copy of ultimate martial artist, and since no one could knew where to find one, said he would probably buy one on-line....