Marcus Impudite

Cost Powers 40 Christmas-Themed Arsenal: Multipower, 60-points reserve; OIF (multiple OAFs; -½) 1u 1) Candy Cane: HA +4d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +½); OAF (-1), Hand-to-Hand Attack (-½) 1u 2) Snowflake-Shaped Shuriken: RKA 1d6+1, Autofire (3 shot; +¼) 12 Recoverable Charges (+¼); OAF (-1), Range Based On STR (-¼) 2u 3) Festive Holiday Wrappings: Entangle 6d6, 6 DEF; OAF (-1), Range Based On STR (-¼), 6 Charges (-¾) 2u 4) Snowman-Shaped Concussive Grenades: EB 8d6, Explosion (+½); OAF (-1), Range Based On STR (-¼), 6 Charges (-¾) 2u 5) Holiday Ornament-Shaped Fragmentary Grenades: RKA 2½d6, Explosion (+½); OAF (-1), Range Based On STR (-¼), 6 Charges (-¾) 2u 6) Yule Log-Shaped Incendiary Grenades: RKA 2d6, Armor Piercing (+½), Explosion (+½); OAF (-1), Range Based On STR (-¼), 6 Charges (-¾) Total Cost: 50-points. A must to have with you when doing your Black Friday "shopping"...

Usually in the family jewels... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tBMNNOA18

To me it all depends. For one thing, if you chose to have a Hunted Disad on your sheet and it expressly says they're out to capture you, then you should be expecting them to at least attempt it (successfully or otherwise) whenever they make an appearance during game time. If they don't, the Hunter isn't doing their job.

(Happy Halloween to all WWYCD readers.) Once again, it's Halloween night. As usual, kids are out trick or treating, some people are having costume parties, and some houses are getting egged or TPed. As the midnight hour is close at hand, a strange green mist is blanketing Campaign City, and people in monster costumes are suddenly being transformed into actual monsters. The city is now being overrun with vampires, mummies, zombies, werewolves, demons, and assorted other creatures of darkness. WWYCD?

Q: Why are you guys attempting to build a Hot Tub Time Machine? A: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads...

Just made this one:

One thing in BTTF2 always made me raise an eyebrow: Biff has a grandson named Griff. A grandson. So somewhere out there was a woman who had such low standards that she actually had sex with Biff? And gave birth to his child? And that child grew up and had a son? The flying cars and Mr. Fusion seem more plausible.

Hermit's The People Of Campaign City thread (Click Here to check it out) brought this back to mind as I was reading it. If Harold existed in your game world, how would your characters most likely interact with him?

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Another list I'm compiling, figured it would be right at home here on the Star HERO forums: Marcus The Impudite's List Of Preposterously Dangerous Design Flaws Starfleet Vessels Should Never Have Been Allowed To Leave Spacedock With: 1) Lack Of Seatbelts: Yes, Starfleet ships come equipped with Inertia Dampeners; but if I has a nickel for every damned time they've been knocked offline and the crew has been jostled around like the balls in a Bingo hopper, I'd be independently wealthy. Cars have seatbelts. Airplanes and helicopters have seatbelts. The frickin' space shuttle had seatbelts. It's a tried and true safety technology, so it's highly illogical for starships to not have them. 2) Holodecks And Holodeck Characters That Can Go Lethally Haywire: As cool as the concept of a Holodeck is, who in their right mind would put such technology on the market knowing it was possible for it to kill someone? In real life, it would be a class action lawsuit waiting to happen, and the manufacturer's CEO would be doing the perp walk shortly after the first time a child gets eaten by Barney The Dinosaur. Honestly, you'd be better off just buying every member of the crew their own Play Station. 3) An Astonishing Lack Of Surge Protection: Some remote part of the ship takes a hit during combat and immediately a console on the bridge erupts into a fountain of sparks and the person manning said console is blown backwards about 2 meters. That makes about as much sense as your laptop violently exploding whenever someone hits your WiFi hotspot with a tack hammer. 4) Holding Cells In The Brig Only Have Force Fields To Keep Prisoners Contained: Brilliant idea, now every power outage we might have in that part of the ship is a potential jailbreak (the Thin Lizzy song of the same name, entirely optional).

Q: What's it say in the first chapter of the NSA's new interrogation manual? A: This could only be an evil plot of Satin and his rouge angles.

As loony as Foxbat is, I doubt it's in-character for him to do something that could endanger people's lives; children's lives doubly so.

To everyone who has ever said 9 out of 10 cops are good: Okay fine, I'll give you that for the sake of argument. That, however, is not an excuse to let the 1 out of 10 who are sh*tbags just run amok without suffering any meaningful consequences for their misdeeds. Don't kid yourselves; bad cops, if left unchecked, will endanger the lives of good cops as well as the those of citizens. Bank on it.

Q: Why is that entire flock of sheep running away in terror? (JK) A: And the jailer man, and Sailor Sam were searching everyone...

Friendly Foxy's Pizza is a pizzeria similar to Chuck E Cheese's. Recently the owner of Friendly Foxy's hired Charlie, a robotics/engineering student from Campaign City University (and an acquaintance of one of the PCs), to build five animatronic characters for the pizzeria, including their mascot Felisha The Fox. The animatronics were a hit with the kids and there were no problems with them until, one Saturday evening during a birthday party, Felisha jumped down off the stage, menaced everyone in the dining room, and would have savagely attacked a pizzeria employee had the manager not used the emergency shut off Charlie provided him with. Thankfully, no one was physically harmed in the incident, and the the people from the birthday party were ultimately convince not to sue. In the meantime, Charlie has shut down the animatronics and removed their battery packs. After telling the manager to consider the animatronics out of service for the time being, Charlie took Felisha The Fox back to the university lab and ran full diagnostics on both her hardware and software. Said diagnostics found nothing that would explain the sudden strange behavior, but he did find one thing that dumbfounded him: someone appears to have vandalized the inside of Felisha's maintenance access panel. Whoever it was drew, in what he assumes is red marker, some kind of weird looking symbol. On a hunch, he checked the others and found they had had the same symbol drawn inside them as well. Research into the pizzeria's past turned up one former employee who had claimed he was wrongfully fired, but records show he died in a car accident back in 1996. WWYCD?

Consider it a blessing; Windows 10 is just one big piece of spyware masquarading as an operating system, and Cortana is just a cheap gimmick to trick all the fools out there into accepting the spyware. I must admit, Megalosoft played (nearly) everyone like a harp from Hell.

These two idiots:

A truth told with the darkest of intent, beats every lie a devil could invent... No one is entirely sure who or what the entity known as "The Whisper" actually is, only that whatever it's up to can't be good. The first reported incident involving it was a murder-suicide back in 1983. An accountant walked in on his cheating wife and her lover in a cheap motel, fatally shot both of them, and finally turned the gun on himself. In the accountant's personal journal, the last entries went into detail about how he heard a whisper in his ear that told him everything about his spouse's infidelity; who she was cheating on him with, where they would meet each other, and how she was lying to cover up the affair. At first, he dismissed it as his stressed out mind playing tricks on him, until one day when it told him to look in his wife's purse. He found receipts from the aforementioned motel, a box of condoms, and a letter she received from her paramour. The rest is history. In every case, the Whisper operates by whispering just the right information in just the right ear to set tragic events in motion. Though its motives are far from benevolent, it is notable that it never lies; everything it tells people can be confirmed to be 100% true. How it knows the things it knows is not yet understood, though the prevailing theory is that it is an entirely intangible entity and could thus be eavesdropping on a person and their activities anytime and anywhere; the Whisper could be in the same room with you and you would never be the wiser unless it chose make itself known to you (usually by whispering to you) or if you have extremely sharp psychic and/or mystical senses. It will usually flee the area at the first sign that someone can sense its presence. Discussions of game mechanics I'll save for another time. Instead, my question to you is this: if you, as GM, were using the Whisper in your campaign, who or what would you have it turn out to be in the big reveal?

A while ago, I built an NPC who has Life Support (Immunity: Sexually-Transmitted Diseases) on his sheet. I chose to price it at 5 points at the time since that's what seemed reasonable based on the section in FRED on the Life Support power. Is 5 points a fair price? Should it be higher? Lower?. Your thoughts?

Q: Is Michael singing in the shower again? A: Two bad tastes that taste absolutely awful together.

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