Marcus Impudite

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero "I'm actually just a singing telegram, but I always end up in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Re: The Future of Small Arms How about impact detonated micro-explosive bullets?

Re: Alternate Earth/WWYCD: Rollerball World On the off chance that there's anyone here who's unfamiliar with the movie, click here for the wikipedia article.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: DT, you saved my bacon! How can I ever repay you? A: No, it was two-hundred ton rampaging animal spraying bull snot all over Spain. That's what made me run, you made me stand infront of it.

The world is similiar to the classic movie Rollerball, and your character's counterpart from this dimension is on one of the many teams that competes in the International Rollerball League. There are no superheroes or supervillains per se, and in fact the counterparts of the villains your PCs usually face back in their own worlds are merely players on rival teams here. What would your character's counterpart from this world be like? What would your character do if he/she encountered this dimension and their counterpart during an interdimensional travel arc in the campaign?

Re: Supervillain Psych Lims: The Reboot Okay, how would you all run a villain with a Psych. lim like this: Victorian Notions Of The "Gentleman Villain" (Common, Moderate)

Re: WWYCD? "You are on a path..." As Devilfire is a villain, this is probably one of the shrinks at a superprison after the do gooders captured him. Since DF is co-inhabiting the body of Greg Anderson, I'll provide answers for both. Devilfire: "It winds through a forrest of dead trees, each black and twisted like a demon claw. Thunder and lightening are clashing in the starless night sky." Greg: "It's a gravel road through scenic countryside on a clear spring day." Devilfire: "Ah, a fine looking vessel of silver bearing a fanged, demonic visage on either side. It contains about a pint of blood, virgin's blood judging by the taste. I chug it on down and feel the invigoration." Greg: "It's a Seven-Eleven drink cup that some thoughtless person threw out their car window. I hate litterbugs." Devilfire: "It's one of the keys to the Portals Of Hell™. Looks like God's little mallrat dropped one..." [lurid chuckle] Greg: "Looks like car keys. I look around for the vehicle they go to." Devilfire: "I'm astonished to find something living in such a blighted place. Bears, like most dumb animals, flee from us demons on sight, so no worries there. Hell, I might give it a good look at my 'game face' just for sh*ts and giggles." Greg: "If I'm in the car I found, I honk the horn to frieghten it off. If I'm on foot, I curl up into the fetal position and hope to God it just goes away." Devilfire: "In the center is a black stone alter on which lay a freshly sacrificed virgin. I climb up and freshen my drink." Greg: "I see one of those concrete picnic tables and a barbaque grill like they have at campsites around the lake." Devilfire: "Hee Hee. I'm a fire demon sweet cheeks. I set them ablaze and stroll merrily through the ashes once they're consumed." Greg: "I take a short cut around them." Devilfire: "It's the River Styx, the most foul and poluted river in all of Hell. I go for a dip, but I'll not dumb enough to drink from it." Greg: "A crystal blue lake, with alot of beautiful girls in bikinnis swimming or sun tanning on the shore. And what the hell do you mean by 'do you take a drink from it'? With all those hot chicks around, I think I'd have better things to do than sit around drinking lake water." Devilfire: "Continue on through the woods and see if anything else has been dropped along the path that might come in handy." Greg: "Does the village have any good bars or strip clubs?" :eg::eg: So, anyone want to take a shot at psycho-analyzing Devilfire/Greg?

Re: WWYCD: Vengeance From Duress Okay... Variant Senerio: Your character, after being sent to Duress by Nebula, choses to (temperary) join up with Devilfire and his crew because he had the most viable plan of escape. Free again at last, he/she watches as DF and the others hunt down and capture Nebula as per the original senerio above and --again, as above-- a lottery is held to decide what will be done with the overly officious Andromedian alien and who gets to do the honors. WWYCD?

Inspired by Hermit's WWYCD:The Nebula Affair... Her claims about it's inescapability not withstanding, there's been a massive jailbreak from Nebula's Duress dimension. An army of villains, lead by the infamous quasi-demonic villain Devilfire, have ganged up on Nebula, captured her, and stripped her of the Duress gauntlets and her other gadgets. Your characters follow the swath of chaos and destruction the villains leave in their wake to the place where they're holding Nebula prisoner...and arguing over her fate. Some want to kill her immediately, some want to "have a little fun with her first." (what exactly they mean by that, I leave to your imagination and the general tone of your particular campaign world) Devilfire shouts over the others for order, then declares that they will decide who gets to do what to her and when in the most equitable manner possible: a lottery. DF produces a HUGE jar of marbles, most of which are clear and one of which is blood red. As you might have guessed, whoever gets the red marble gets first crack at Nebula, though they are asked to leave some for everyone else. WWYCD?

Re: WWYCD: The Nebula Affair Devilfire: Would probably be among the villains Nebula sends to Duress, though he would not be as impressed by it, seeing how he's a quasi-demonic being. Assuming he can find a viable means of escape, and can rally enough of his fellow prisoners behind him, Nebula may have just bit off more than she can chew.

Re: Plot Seed: Six Places to Nuke When You’re Serious Assuming it hasn't been mentioned already... The Vatican: Every Christian sect on the planet would go ape sh*t.

Re: NAZI Villians Dr. Destroyer had some ties to the Nazis in his background, though I don't remember off hand if he was officially a Nazi. I'm not sure about any others either, though someone like Teleios (sp?) might easily be embraced by a particularly twisted Neo-Nazi group based on both his appearance (an aryan posterchild if there ever was one) and his ideals.

Re: WWYCD: Daughter Of The Shadow Lord... Thread Necromancy

Re: WWYCD: Daughter Of The Shadow Lord... LOL

Re: WWYCD: Daughter Of The Shadow Lord... Your second assumption was the correct one.

Note to all WWYCD regulars: this will be the last WWYCD thread I create featuring the character of Terror'Khan until this coming Halloween (it will probably take me that long to come up with new material for him, and besides I wouldn't want you all to get too jaded ) A bunch of cultists recently abducted two students from a posh private school in the campaign city. One of the kids they took was the child of one of your PC's friends or some other appropriate NPC. The other, a girl by the name of Amy, was a new student whom little is known about. Your character and his/her associates track the cultists to their hideout and burst in to thwart whatever foul doings they have planned. Just as the fight is about to begin, Amy gets free, reachs into the collar of her shirt and produces an all too familiar object: a Shadow Gem pendant! Sure enough, Terror'Khan appears and Amy calls out to him, "Daddy!" After doing one hell of PRE Attack on the entire room, Khan folds his arms, scowls, and says to the cultists, "Gentlemen, and I do use that term loosely, would you kindly explain to me just what your intentions were towards my daughter?" The cult leader gasps and immediatley begins groveling, "Please forgive us, Oh Darkest of Dark Lords, we did not know the girl was one of your progeny. I assure you we intented no disrespect." Indeed, Amy looks just like her mother, Amanda, though you imagine she had to have gone through quite an acellerated maturation process to have reached her present life stage in the short span of time there would have been for her to be sired. For those with the appropriate sensory powers, Amy reads as just an ordinary human child, though it is concievable that Khan has merely mask his daughter's true signature somehow. WWYCD?

Re: The Things I Learned Playing A Villain... Ah yes, just like what Prince Lotor (one of my all time favorite villains) did to dear ol' daddy. Keep a cadre of ubercompetent lawyers on retainer at all times. Even if you and your minions practically never get arrested, you can still use them to mess with the do-gooders in other ways.

Re: WWYCD: Unholy Matrimony... It's also possible Terror'Khan could have thouroughly corrupted her (short of deflowering her, of course) in the short time she's been with him. Think of her as the Nadine Cross to his Randall Flagg if it helps.

Re: The Things I Learned Playing A Villain... Which is why the "advice" in my opening post was just stuff anyone with half a lick of sense would already know anyway. All the valuable information I really learned from playing a villain will be published in my New York Times bestselling self-help book.

In the spirit of the previous threads in the series, yadda, yadda... If you ever need to parley with the do gooders for any reason, always arrange the meeting at a time and place where there will be plenty of innocent bystanders to get caught in the crossfire should they decide they're not content just to talk things over. As an added bonus, you get to enjoy watching the team leader sweat bullets as he and the others try to keep the team hothead from making a mess of things. There really is NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES.

This is for a master villian I'm working on, an ancient dark lord who's been known by many names down through the centuries. On of those names is supposed to loosely translate as "Darkness Walks As A Man" in Latin, because he often masquaraded as a human when it served his purposes. Anyone here got something to fit the bill? Thanks.

Re: WWYCD: Unholy Matrimony... Just went back and fixed some typos and stuff. Serves me right for posting after a couple shots of Captain Morgan.

Re: Prepaid Wireless (aka Tracfones) Although it might be amusing to see those Poser Mobile guys from the T Mobile To Go commercials run afoul of ol' Takofanes.

Re: WWYCD: Unholy Matrimony... You just found out from your usual source on stuff like this. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

Click here for relevent infomation from a previous WWYCD thread. The Winter Solstice is tonight. You hear from your usual sourse on the supernatural thatTerror'Khan, infamous Lord of the Shadow Wraiths, is going forward with a key part of his long tern plan to turn the entire universe into one vast realm of absolute darkness. It turns out the reason he save the would-be virgin sacrifice, Amanda, from the Doom cultists was because he plans to perform a ceremony that will transform her into the Shadow Queen, a female Shadow Wraith possessing dark power second only to her husband. According to ancient prophecies, the combined dark mystical might of the Shadow Lord and the Shadow Queen would be more than enough to crush the strongest opposition your campaign could possibly muster; be they good, evil, or indifferent (IOW, the universe is in deep **** if Khan pulls this off). To make Amanda his Shadow Queen, His Evilness must wed her in an elaborate ceremony at midnight during the Solstice and infuse her with a portion of his dark essense via kiss at the conclussion. If the Shadow Lord and his new Shadow Queen are then allowed to consumate their relationship, the transformation will be irreversable short of destroying Terror'Khan himself (easier said than done). If the ceremony is disrupted, Khan will have to wait a full century to try again (and obviously have to find another virgin bride). The unholy marriage is to take place at a ruined church in a rundown part of the campaign city and Khan is going all out to make sure everything goes as planned. He will have thirteen of his most powerful Shadow Wraith lueitenants on hand to deal with any meddlers, and they are joined by a cadre of mystical villains who all owe the Shadow Lord favors. The Shadow Lord has also had his cultists set up some truely nasty mystical traps to prevent interlopers from getting into the chapel during the ceremony. WWYCD?