Marcus Impudite

Re: Answers & Questions

Q. What when said about a vacuum cleaner and a call girl usually means the end of their careers ?

 

A. Yeah

Q.Tim got that on from Spaceballs, didn't he?

A. "Exellent."

Just in time for Valentine's day, sort of.

A female member of your team (PC or NPC, whichever would be more appropriate) has caught the eye of a villain you regularly cross paths with. Said villain has developed an obsessive attraction to her on par with what Prince Lotor had for Princess Allura in the Voltron series, and though his obsession with her has on occasion been turned to the team's advantage (including a couple of instances in which he's undercut another villain to save her from mortal peril), most of the time it is (at best) creepy and annoying. He shows no signs of ever giving up, no matter how many times she's rejected him in no uncertain terms. WWYCD?

Re: Supervillain Psych Lims: The Reboot

Okay, in the orignial thread (before things went south there) it was said by many that a villain with Irredeamably Evil (Very Common, Total) suffered from "blind spots" in his thinking because of his total commitment to The Darksideâ„¢. Working from that line of reasoning, what Psychological Limitation (or possibly lack thereof) will qualify one to be a card-carrying member of the venerable I'm-Evil-Not-Stupid Club?

Since the original thread has gone so far off course it's not even funny, perhaps it would be best if we start again fresh, whatta ya say?

In the villain write ups (especially mystical bad guys) I often see psych lims like "Irredeamably Evil". So how is that limitating? How can that be used against a character like a "Code of Honor"? Do you have NNDs with the defence being "having a spark of goodness in your soul"? Do you bait traps with puppies hoping your evil target will go out of his/her way to kick it? Do you raid a morgue to bait the cannabil you're trying to capture? If a "Casual Killer" is holding hostages' date=' how is it hazardous to the villain? I was under the impression psych lims are meant to impeed a character but I don't see how that works with evil ones.[/quote']

Re: Dimension Brainstorming: The Dimension Of Lost Stuff

The Nether.

Simple and it's even a Metallica lyric, me likey.

(consider it repped)

The basic concept is thus: Anytime something (or on occasion, someone) in the real world is lost for a significant amount of time (a couple of weeks to a year) it (or he/she) manifests in this "dimension of lost stuff." The longer something remains lost, the more likely it will become a perminent fixture there, and anything that could reasonably be considered "forever lost" in the real world cannot be removed without making a bargain of some kind with the being that rules the dimension (typically this would involve offering him something equally valuable in exchange). The landscape consists of piles and piles of items that get lost in reality all the time: lost car keyes, socks that have gone missing in the dryer, lost eyeglasses and contact lenses, etc. Some areas are even populated by people who have been missing and presumed deceased for a significant period of time in real life, though asking any them what became of them back in RL won't help because they don't remember (whether this is due to those memories being blocked or erased, or because they are infact merely manifestations and not real per se, no one can say with certainty).

The two things I need most are 1) a good name for the dimension, since "The Dimension Of Lost Stuff" becomes quite a mouthful after awhile, and 2) to design an NPC who will be the dimension's lord (not necessarily a full blown write-up, but at least a general discription that includes personality traits, abilities, and alittle bit of background)

Any ideas? Thanks.

Re: The Evil Dating Game

White Witch: Okay Bachelor #3, how about you?

Bachelor #3: I'd be a an ill-tempered, fire-breathing Hellhound, baby.

Re: The Evil Dating Game

I know this is a joke thread (and a funny one at that) but Cole from charmed up there with Flagg and Sauron?

Never underesteemate a demon like Cole, no matter how many times the Charmed Ones have toasted him he keeps coming back.

White Witch: Bachelor #2, same question.

Bachelor #2: I wouldn't be a puppy, I eat puppies for breakfast.

[White Witch smiles and raises an eyebrow]

inspired by this thread

Marcus: Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of The Evil Dating Game. I'm your host Marcus The Impudite. Please give a warm...er, cold welcome for our lovely evil bachlorette. From The Cronicles Of Narnia, say hello to the White Witch Of Naria.

[audience claps]

White Witch: Hi, Marcus.

[Marcus smiles and straightens his tie]

Marcus: Well hello yourself sweetie. Anywho, say hello to today's three evil bachlors.

White Witch: Hi guys.

Bachlor #1 (Randell Flagg from The Stand): Hey baby.

Bachlor #2 (Sauron from Lord Of The Rings): Hello.

Bachlor #3 (Cole Turner from Charmed): Hey.

[audience claps]

Marcus: Okay, Let's begin shall we? WW, would you please read your first question?

White Witch (clears her throat): Okay, Bachelor #1, if you were a puppy, what breed would you be?

Re: Answers & Questions

Q. What was Montgomery Scott's derisive retort when confronted with one of the best computers around on a trip into the past ?

 

A. We witness these spirits clad in their own shabby outfits with the same old haircuts and hairstyles never aging, never in search of more comfortable surroundings

Q: So how was your family reunion?

A: The entire audience rushed out of the theatre and retched in the alley.

Re: Answers & Questions

Q: How do you like our new dance, "The Freight Train Stomp"?

 

A: It kept growing until it got completely out of hand.

Q: Dude, your fern is taking up your entire apartment, how the hell did this happen?

A: Damnit, I should have taken the %$#@ blue pill.

As GM, I'm building a Racial Package Deal for Driders in my campaign world. the package will include Extra Limbs (eight spider legs) and Shape Shift (to allow the drider to masquerade as human). If I apply the Inherent advantage to EL, is there any hardfast rule that could gum things up with SS, or would this be a case of "You're the GM, it's your call"? Thanks.

Re: I just thought of an extremely scary relationship.

What if she hooked up with Randall Flagg from The Stand?

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model

Reflexive Dope Slap:

2d6 HA, Triggered (when someone within arm's reach of character says or does something stupid, Automatic Reset, +3/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), (22 Active Points), STUN Only (-0), Hand-to-Hand Attack (-1/2), No STR Bonus (-1/2) Total Cost: 11-points

Re: Single Green Superhero seeks.... (personels for your characters)

Mine's already in my sig

Re: What would you trade for wealth?

I'd trade in all my COM. Sure, I'd be bodaciously ugly, but so what? Next to its cousin power, wealth is the most potent aphrodisiac known to man, and it's a documented fact that a rich guy could be an absolute gargoyle and still be up to his eyeballs in hotties every night.

(I know what your thinking, the above statement is pretty outrageous and shallow. Of course anyone who's interacted with me on this board for very long should know by now that I am shallow. )

Re: WWYCD: Another Run In With Blackthorn...

... I ask the DM if he could possibly have been slightly less obvious re: his source material.

Your absolutely right, the Three Musketeers reference was a bit over the top.

Re: Plot Seeds For Your Characters

I'll happily grant permission for others to write plot seeds for my Devilfire character from the WWYCD threads. It just so happens I'm rewriting him as an NPC and having some plot seeds for him would be handy.

Re: Raiding the Icebox

Any attempt to invade Canada would be perilous for the U.S., especially with that devastating new sonic weapon they developed based on the music of Celine Dion...

(runs away persued by the mob of Celine Dion fans armed with pitch forks and torches)

It's been a couple of weeks since the incident detained in WWYCD?: One Night At The Opera..., you and your associates have be monitoring Ezekiel Blackthorn off and on in that time. This time Blackthorne and his personal assistant/paramour Miss Westlake are in the parking garage of the Blackthorn Enterprises building, leaving for the evening. As they are walking to Ezekiel's black BMW, a man in a trenchcoat with a noticable French accent approaches them, saying "Hold it right there, Blackthorn."

Blackthorn looks at Miss Westlake and says, "Go wait in the car, my dear."

As she does so, Blackthorn looks the stranger in the eye, smiles coldly and says, "D'Artagnan, I had a feeling that was you I sensed."

"Enough small talk," the man snaps as he pulls a rapier from under his coat. "We're not on holy ground this time."

Blackthorn raises an eyebrow. "Very ambitous, coming to face me yourself. It's a pity your old friends aren't still around to see this."

Giving the top of his gentleman's cane a twist, Blackthorn unsheathes a 23" mirror-polished steel blade. The two of them begin to duel. WWYCD?

Re: Answers & Questions

Q: What constitutes a kinky night for you?

 

A: Hand over your money to someone else.

Q: Dude, a cadre of IRS auditors is on their way to my house, what the Hell am I going to do now?

A: Of course it'll work, I saw this on an episode of NUMB3RS last week.

Re: WWYCD?: One Night At The Opera...

Keeping things fresh:

Further investigation of Ezekiel Blackthorn and his background turns up a very old newspaper clipping with a photograph of his great grandfather, Ezra Blackthorn, from the year he founded Blackthorn Enterprises (chose a date appropriate to your campaign timelime). One of your party remarks about the "striking family resemblance." Indeed, other than the minor differences in clothing and hair style, the two are identical and you are taken aback when you notice that Ezra and Ezekiel Blackthorn both have the exact same tiny scar just above the right eye brow.

A performance of The Phantom Of The Opera is scheduled for tonight at the campaign city opera house (insert appropriate reason for your character being there or nearby, or if your character is the sort to jump into action quickly, all of the following is on a surveillance video he/she is being shown after the fact). Most of the city's luminaries are in attendance, most notably Ezekiel Blackthorn, President and CEO of the British multinational Blackthorn Enterprises and heir of the company's founder, Ezra Blackthorn. Tall, athletic, and handsome in a sinister sort of way, there are many rumors circulating that Blackthorn is the true identity of an apex level "big bad" in the campaign world, though a number of his friends and business rivals have baulked at the idea, saying that Ezekiel's worst sins are nothing more than having some creative accounting done for him during tax season and carrying on an ill appropriate relationship with his nubile personal assistant, Miss Westlake.

As the evening's performance concludes, Blackthorn and the lovely Miss Westlake are walking to his limo when a thug with a .38 snub nose springs out from the nearby alley and accosts them.

"Alright rich boy, fork over your wallet and the lady's little pretties," He gestures with the gun at expensive jewelry Miss Westlake is wearing. "And I might not have to put a bullet in ya."

Blackthorn says, "Be gone, or I'll make you rue the day your questionable parentage begot you."

The thug sneers, "Why you tea sucking little prick, I oughta..."

Before the thug can react, Blackthorn grabs his forearm and squeezes hard, digging in his fingertips. The would-be robber drops his weapon with a yelp and a grimace of agony. Blackthorn, leaning in almost nose to nose with the thug, then says, "What is it you Americans say at a time like this? Oh yes, I remember now: 'go play in traffic.'"

Still trembling as Blackthorn lets go of his arm, and having visibly wet himself, the thug turns and runs. Without looking, he darts out into the street right in front of an oncoming bus, with messy results. Miss Westlake gasps and faints, Ezekiel picks her up with an eerily nonchalant expression and carries her to the limo. WWYCD?

(for those with the sensory abilities, Blackthorn has an aura of power far greater than what any mortal man would have, even a corporate CEO)

Say you got a character who maintains a Secret Identity but who is also of such a high power level (i.e. HUGE total character cost) that, while being outed would still be horribly inconvient for him, it would not be so bad that it merits the Major level of severity. Would it be reasonable to take the Social Limitation at a 10-point value (Frequently, Minor) or would that be a trifle cheesy?

For some time, you and your team had to contend with a demon you knew by the name of Russel. You and the others had tangled with him on and off over the course of a year, always thwarting his evil schemes but never quite suceeding in capturing/destroying him--Ol' Russ was usually smart enough to know when to cut and run. Unfortunately for Russel, he eventually got into fight with a demon far more powerful (not to mention far more evil) than himself and was destroyed, though before he went down he managed to weaken the other demon enough that you and your team finished it off in short order.

Or at least, you thought he had been destroyed. About a week later, you are startled to find what appears to be Russel sprawled unconscious on the doorstep of the team's base (or if you don't have a team base, some other appropriate location). A team member with the requisite sensory abilities is able to confirm that it's him, but something is different. Although he still has the same personality, memories, and knowledge, his powers are gone and he no longer even reads as a demon. It's like his demonic nature had somehow been stripped away, and indeed, he now registers as fully human. WWYCD?