Speedball

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
I'll be happy to post mine as soon as I get it typed onto my new machine.

Re: journal of a hero
 
Entry #7, dated July 30, 2004
Who the Hell was I fooling? Lucy will be here in an hour.

[Editor’s note: the following are the contents of Simon Cooper Windsor’s journal; Windsor was a meta-human who emerged in the first wave, exhibiting super-human strength, resilience, and various wind-based powers. Windsor’s identity as a costumed hero was initially kept secret, though his position as a public figure in his civilian identity lead him to be under consistent scrutiny in both aspects of his double life. It is this editor’s contention that Windsor’s journal provides the historian of meta-human society a unique perspective. His insights, while sometimes profound, are mixed with entries that discuss what we might otherwise describe as the bland, everyday concerns of a normal (if very, very wealthy) young man.]

Re: journal of a hero
 
Thanks, Battlestaff. More:
 
Entry #4, dated July 27, 2004
Egypt now: in the harbor at Alexandria. I had the urge to go somewhere really, truly old to get some perspective on what’s happening. No sign of Margaret—she must’ve flown to see her friend Charlotte in the States. The girl knows how to use her summer breaks, sure. I can’t even remember the last time we spent more than a couple of days in the same house.
Well, of course I can: the funeral. That reminds me—Owens gave me granddad’s old journal from the war; he told me dad wanted him to give it to me at the right time. I remember dad talking about what it was like knowing his dad was fighting the Germans up in the air, protecting London in his Hurricane. Other boys at Ashdown House had fathers in the service, of course, though mostly in the Navy. I’m glad that dad didn’t donate everything to the Imperial War Museum; it’s good to have a few things left for the family.
Found this in the journal: “The other Group-Captains were all sitting down to tea, discussing the word that our Hurricanes would be swapped out for Spitfires. I told them all to go to Hades. I’ve flown the Spitfire. She’s a fine plane—a real thoroughbred; Fighting’s no job for a thoroughbred, though. What we need is a shire horse—and the Hurricane’s it. She’s as sturdy as Albion herself and capable of bringing down as many bombers as Jerry wants to throw at us.”
I’m wandering. I’m forgetting to write down what I picked up this journal to get down. I finally found something I couldn’t lift, for God’s sake. Last night, late, after dinner and an evening wandering from one café to the next, I came back to the Saint George [Windsor’s boat—ed.] and made sure the crew knew I was aboard. I waited a few more minutes, grabbed my rucksack and flew off due South. In the dark I hovered over Alexandria a while, listening to the wind carry people’s conversations upwards, like prayers. I could smell the late dinners cooking—or maybe early breakfasts—and then I set off for the Valley of the Kings. I finally found something heavy enough that I can’t lift it: the pyramids. So that puts my strength somewhere between train-car-lifting (Crete was quite an adventure: my God, the women!) and pyramid-lifting. I wonder how much a train weighs, anyway…

Re: journal of a hero
 
Entry #3, dated July 20, 2004
I flew. I actually flew.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
whoops. I had made the low resolution jpeg before the changes you requested and then never made another low resolution gal.
 
Anyways, two more, this time Black Widow and Ironclad for lluthor
 
Also, since this is my thread, I might as well use it to plug a great website on modern occult/horror campaign. My GM got this up in the last couple of weeks ago. A bit of art is up. It is called 4 aces and all our adventures for the last couple of years are written up. This weekend is another installment.
 
If you run a modern campaign, I don't care if it is NYC, supers, horror, White Wolf like, or pulp noir detectives, if you are the GM, you have to check out the reference link section. This GM is nutso for research and it shows. But a great source of ideas for y'all out there.
 
http://www.wwnet.net/~alcatia/fouraces/index.html
 
And yet another game that I'm in, but fairly rarely, is a Legends of the 5 Rings game. Another excellent site.
 
http://webpages.charter.net/houseoffun/l5r/index.htm