Marcus Impudite

Re: Answers & Questions

Q: Michael Jackson, what happened to your nose?

 

A: I was just helping the goat through the fence officer, I swear.

Q: What's MightyBec's Identitifying Quote?

A: Hastert, Hastert, Hastert

Re: Answers & Questions

Q. Don't you think those newly weds should get some privacy before making out like that ?

 

A. It actually says more about the living than the dead

Q: So, how'd you like last night's Six Feet Under?

A: "COME BACK HERE, SO THAT I MAY BRAIN THEE!"

Re: Opinion: EuroStar

Kinda off topic, but did anyone else notice Menton has the Distinctive Features: Mutant disad and Mentalla doesn't? Was this an oversight, or does little sister have some ability to conceal her mutancy that her brother lacks?

As for Mentalla vs. Gravitar, I'd say Isabella's best plan of action would have been to use Pushing and her Power Skill to give her some extra dice of Mental Illusions and create the illusion that Takofanes, Dr. Destroyer, or big bro just happened to show up...

Re: Answers & Questions

Q: Why did you flip the switch before replacing that light bulb?

 

 

 

A: Chocolate-covered aunts

Q: Your mother's sisters were touring the Hersey's factory when it exploded? Are they okay?

A: See, this is exactly why they say "don't try this at home."

Re: Answers & Questions

A: You and whose cronies?

Q: Will you come quietly, Mr. Libby, or do we have to take you by force?

A: "Rocky Mountain High, Colora-" Blam! Blam! Blam! "DIE YOU SON OF A *****!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Champions Jargon

I don't know what's worse. Three heroes simultaneously attacking an agent and obliterating him' date=' or that it happens often enough you have a phrase for it.[/quote']

If you think that's disturbing, it was a female player who gave us the term Cluster F***ed. (thanks for that little chestnet, Alicia) BTW, A CF doesn't necessarily aways result in Tomato Sause.

Re: Champions Jargon

Cigar-box Funneral: burial of the remains of someone who ended up Tomato Sause.

CMANP ("Character Must Acquire New Pants"): Said after one's character is on the recieving end of a VERY effective fear-based PRE Attack.

Re: Champions Jargon

Cluster F***ed: When a character takes such massive STUN/BODY after being hit by three or more different attacks simultaniously they either end up as Tomato Sause or in a Persistent Vegitative State (PVS). Example: "Wow, VIPER agent #2 just got cluster f***ed by Brickboy's haymaker, Zapper's EB, and Slasher's HKA."

Tomato Sause: When a character's BODY goes so far below -30 that they had to have been oblitorated. aka "Red Mist", "Splat!", and "Shower of Entrails"

Persistent Vegitative State (PVS): When a character's STUN goes so far below -30 that it's unlikely he/she will be back above 0 STUN by the time that evening's session is over. see also Sleeping Beauty below.

Sleeping Beauty: A character whose STUN is so far in the negative he/she can't possibly recover enough within one century game time to awaken. Often the result of being Cluster F***ed. Players of such character (female PCs in particular) often whistle "Someday my prince will come" while writing up a new sheet or retrieving an Understudy from their folders.

Redheaded Stepchild: Any character with ridiculously low defenses and/or CV. Said characters often end up as Tomato Sause or Sleeping Beauties.

Understudy: An alternate character perpared just incase current active character killed or ends up in PVS or as a Sleeping Beauty.

Re: WWYCD: The Halloween Party From Hell...

Happy Halloween! :

While raiding a mystic villain's lair, you are trapped in a room with a gilded mirror standing in the center (the doors close and lock tight, and wards have been cast upon the room to prevent more exotic means of escape such as Teleportation, Desolid, etc.). Suddenly, your reflection leaps from mirror with a wicked leer on his/her face (BTW, it's a magical mirror, so for those who might say "my character's a vampire, he/she has no reflection in mirrors" they do in this one). It is then that you are told that you must defeat your doggleganger (he/she has all the same abilities as you but is your polar opposite morally) to get free of this room and, as is often with traps like this one, if your doppleganger defeats you, you will be sealed within the mirror and your doppleganger will be set free to wreck havoc. What tactics do you use to beat your mirror self? Will the fight end with you or your doppleganger going free? WWYCD?

Re: WWYCD: The Halloween Party From Hell...

Boo!

Re: WWYCD: The Halloween Party From Hell...

I got no idea who anybody you talking about is.

 

I know Glarg doesn't understand costumes, and Panweesio doesn't need to wear one. That's all I can say to this WWYCD.

For Amanda and Terror'Khan try this link

Freakshow can be found in the Millennium City book on page 119. If you don't have the book, he's basically a punkrock-looking dude who's obcessed with slasher movies and thinks he's the "avatar of fear".

Devilfire is one of my characters who I reply as on most WWYCD threads.

It's Halloween Night in Campaign City, and your character has been invited to a costume party in the grand ballroom of a fancy hotel downtown. Even though it's Halloween, the evening thus far has been oddly uneventful (usually this is one of those nights when things get "interesting"). When you first arrive at the party, there are no obvious signs of potential trouble, but later in the evening you spot Greg Anderson (civillain ID of quasi-demonic supervillain Devilfire) dancing with his girlfriend Rhea. Greg is wearing a pirate costume and Rhea is dressed as Yeoman Rand from ST:TOS. Over by the refreshment table, a fellow who looks alot like Freakshow (see Millennium City) is clandestinely spiking the punch with a vial of luminesant green liquid while munching on one of those bat-shaped cookies. As if you don't have enough to worry about already, you then bump into Amanda from WWYCD: Bride Of The Shadow Lord dancing with a man who could only be Terror'Khan himself in human guise (Amanda is dressed as a Spanish dancer and His Spookiness is dressed up as Zorro). And on top of it all, there are plenty of innocent costumed guests who could get caught in the crossfire if things suddenly get hairy. WWYCD?

Over the course of a few months, you and your associates have been recieving anonymous tips over the phone that have helped you systematically dismantle a major criminal organization in your campaign city, leaving only the big boss and his inner circle at large. Finally, the tipster came through with the location of their safe house and the bust goes down without a hitch, but one thing still sticks out in your mind. When the question of the tipster's identity came up in the phone converstation, his only reply was to laugh bitterly and say, "When you see that no good snake, give him a message for me: tell him his old pal Nick said this is payback for Bangkok and that I'll see him in Hell. He'll know what your talking about." The tipster then hung up.

After the bust, you find out the crime boss in question did at one time have a partner by the name of Nick, who disappeared 10 years ago in Bangkok and was beleived to have met with foul play, though nothing was ever proven. Tracing the call leads you to a payphone downtown, and the member of your group with the appropriate sensory abilities tells you he/she is sensing a residue of ectoplasm on the phone's handset and keypad. As if you need further proof, a check of surveillance footage from a nearby store's security camera shows no one entering or leaving the phone booth during the aproximate time the call took place. WWYCD?

Re: Tomb Raider Hero

Thanks again to all who posted.

The alarm goes off a the [insert Campaign City Here] Metropolitan Museum. You and your party arrive just in time to find the Egyptology exhibit has been robbed, though strangely enough the theives passed on an assortment of exceptionally valuable artifacts (all of which would have fetched top dollar and been easily fenced on the blackmarket) to steal a mummy--sarcophagus and all. Acording to the currator, little is known about this particular mummy other than the fact that it was buried unceremoniously in an unmarked tomb deep in a seldom-traveled part of the Egyptian desert and the x-rays taken at the university showed it to be the remains of a female. After about a week, during which the same theives/cultists appeared to be gathering spell components for a necromantic ritual, a new supervillainess makes her debut--weilding powerful, Egyptian-themed black magic (think Tekofanes, only a smokin' hot chick). WWYCD?

Re: What Would Your Character's City Be Like?

Devilfire's city would be much like Sunnydale (a.k.a. "Sunny-Hell") from the Buffyverse; sunny and superficially peaceful during the daytime, and a hotbed of bizarre and dangerous supernatural activatity at night.

Re: WWYCD: Foxbat The Mighty!

Go home and acquire new pants.

Re: Tomb Raider Hero

Thanks nolgroth, I'd have a look at the file and let you know.

Re: Tomb Raider Hero

So Marcus' date=' do you have HERO Desinger? I could post what I've come up with. I could also export into the VBasic code and post here to the message thread. Let me know.[/quote']

 

Not yet, but the guy at the shop says he has it on order for me (knock on wood). If possible, a .doc will work in the meantime. Thanks.

Re: The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés

Original linky no worky?

Ask Tharkazog about it. Unless I'm mistaken, the site the list was on belonged to him.

Re: Tomb Raider Hero

Mostly I'm dumbfounded by some of the genre conventions. Lara Croft eats food she finds on the floor. How gross is that? I mean' date=' she keeps that adventurous(?) figure by eating old discarded candy bars?[/quote']

 

Simple enough, she does alot of cardio.

 

Anywho, just off the cuff, I imagine she has 13-15 STR, 18 DEX, maybe 15 CON, not sure about BODY, at least 15 INT and EGO, 15 PRE, 18-20 COM, at least 5 PD/ED, 4 SPD, maybe 6 REC, and roughly 30 END and STUN. I'll have to do some research for her skills and stuff, but obviously she has the Filthy Rich perk, SS: Archeology (sp?), a boat load of AKs, CKs, and KSs; tons of Agility Skills, and WF: Common Melee and Small Arms at a minimum.

 

Comments? Contributions?

Anyone here ever write up stats for Lara Croft? If so, please post them. If not, I'm planning to do the job myself and I'll greatly appreciate any and all suggestions.

BTW, it's good to see the boards back up at last.

Re: WWYCD: Omelas

Devilfire: (Demon half) A demon remnant is hardly going to care about the child's plight, however seeing an opportunity to destroy a utopia, even a faux utopia like this, would make him chortle with glee. (Human half) Greg would genuinely sympathize with the kid and try to help him/her anyway he can regardless of what the villagers might try to do to him as a result. The irony of a quasi-demonic villain saving the kid from a hellish existance would not be lost on either of them.

A company in your campaign world that manufactures deodorant and other hygene products has started marketing a pheromonally-enhanced body spray for both sexes. Over the course of a week, as people purchase and try out the spray, it appears to not only work much the way their rather risque tv ads suggest, but seems to work a little too well. All around your campaign city, men and women are doing things in the streets that would be better done behind closed doors (and in the case of some of them, definately with the lights out). Things get way out of hand as people are soon too busy *ahem* "getting friendly with each other" to do anything else. Meanwhile, several teams of individuals clad in haz-mat suits are fanning out through the city cleaning out stores and banks with little or no resistance. WWYCD?