Marcus Impudite

(for once I'm doing one that has nothing to do with demons...) Advisory: Some adult themes, may not be appropriate for all players, characters, and/or campaign settings. It's one of those rare slow days, so with nothing better to do, you stop by to visit with one of your teammates. When you ring the doorbell, he/she comes to the door in a bathrobe and an embarressed/guilty expression on his/her face. As he/she tells you this wasn't a good time to drop by, you glance over his/her shoulder and see- much to your shock- the costume of a superhuman you and the group consider an adversary (pick someone of the appropriate gender and sexual orientation) on the couch. After an awkward silience, your friend confesses that the individual in question is in the bedroom asleep and begins telling you the whole sordid tale: The two of them met on a personals website in Secret ID, and after afew face to face dates, got into an *ahem* "intimate relationship." Only recently did each find out who the other was, and though the fact that they were on opposing sides of law/morality was awkward, they continued seeing each other (yes, the sex was THAT good). Rightly or wrongly so, your colleague sinerely believes he/she can persaude his/her new bedpartner to change sides. WWYCD?

Re: WWYCD?: The PRIMUS Auction Devilfire: (demon half) Doesn't care one way or another. (human half) For the chance to score a computer, stereo, and some new furnature for the apartment dirt cheap; Greg is so there.

Re: "Bag of Holding" Steve Long's got a pretty good write-up of the item you want in the Rules FAQ under the "Reasoning From Effects" section. It consists of two EDMs; one for putting items in, and one for drawing them out.

Just as the title says, what would your character be like if the campaign were set in an Old West-like world with steampunk technology, weird science, etc?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did Clark find in a Luthercorp lab on lastnight's episode of smallville? A: Because Micheal Moore sat on it.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the name of that new Kill Bill Spoof? A: Drew Carey for president in '04.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Dude, haven't you got the new DVD player working yet? A: The Lord Of Onion Rings: Return Of The Burger King

Re: WWYCD #110- Dark Guardian

Note: This one's kind of X-Files-ish and may not work well with some characters. A small child is reported missing after she doesn't come home from school one day, and is believed to have been kidnapped. One night as you and your team are out searching with other volenteers and the police, you see a man run out of an apartment downtown; carrying the girl and screaming in terror. When you confronted the kidnapper- who looks scared out of his mind- he says, "Look, just take the girl and toss me in the slammer, I don't care, just don't let that thing get me!" When questioned- either by you or the police later- the kidnapper says he was about to call the girl's parents with a ransom demand when the shadows in the room coalesced into a humaniod silhouette with demonic looking, glowing red eyes. This being, whatever it was, then threatened to kill him and devour his soul if he didn't let the girl go unharmed. Because certain paraphernalia was found in the man's possession at the time, the cops wrote the story off as a hallucination brought on by drug use. Later, possibly when you visit the girl to see if she's okay, you find her drawing something with her crayons that looks alot like the kidnapper's "shadow demon." When ask about the drawing, she says, "It's my gaurdian angel, Eddie." It is then that you get a creepy feeling like someone is standing right behind you, but when you turn to look, you only see your own shadow on the wall. WWYCD?

Re: Wwycd? #84 Ask the DM what he's been smoking and where I can get some.

Devilfire is a fire using villain who gets his powers from the reminant of a fire demon that has partially possessed his body. A classic Jeckal and Hyde split personality, the demon and human halves of Devilfire are constantly vying for control. During a recent encounter with Devilfire in which he is seriously injuried, you witness his demonic half seperate from his human half and restore itself to a full fledged demon! Weaken by his injuries and the loss of lifeforce when the fire demon abandoned him and fled into the night, DF has lapsed into a coma and is getting weaker by the minute. Assuming someone in the party takes the time to unmask him, you are shocked to find out Devilfire is (or was) Greg Anderson, a college student who works as an assistant manager at a restaurant you (one of your teammates) frequents. how do you handle this?

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #69 Devilfire: (demon half) Would be licking his chops as he leafed through the wealth of blackmail information he just got his hands on. (human half) Greg would wonder how the hell he ended up in a VIPER nest, then try to slink out the back way and get back to his apartment.

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #68 Devilfire: (Demon Half) would consider joining his regime, if it serves the greater evil. (Human Half) Greg would still be shocked and amazed that world leaders would agree to something like this in the first place.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, what happened after the heroes slayed the dragon? A: Side Effects may include: Headache, Nausea, Diareaha, Persistent Rash, Skin Irratation, Rectal Bleeding, Spontanious Human Combustion, and Dry Mouth. Use only as directed.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Hey SS, isn't that one of your kin up there in the sky? A: Because Ray Charles would have wanted it that way.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Man, I just pulled an allnighter and I'm not even tired, what's the deal? A: I should have used Preparation H.

You loaned out your FRED? You're a more trusting person than I.

If you got a character who can hold his own in a fight but doesn't look like much, try something like this: Frequently Underestemated: +3 with Combat, (24 Active Points), Only Versus First Time Opponents (-1/4), Not Versus Characters With Danger Sense (-1/4) Cost: 16-points

Roll the two Limitations together and give it a value of -1/2. Considering the fact that it only takes a Phase to assemble the gun, there can't be that many parts to Keep track of.

Given DEMON their own little cadre of really nasty dark magic-based villains tht they keep in reserve for when the caped do-goods prove to be more than just a nuisance.

Q: Dude, is that a pimple? A: "Crime: Identity Theft... Verdict: Guilty... Sentence: Death By Slow Torture."

I suppose you're right, at $9 a pair you can't expect too much. So you're saying a high-end pair of cuffs like the police use would give a minus on the Lockpicking roll in locked mode? How big a modifier?

Anyway, Roger gets alot of emergency pages from couples in the area who are into the -ahem- kinky stuff and have an uncanny talent for losing or misplacing their keys. On every call he's told me about thus far he always manages to open the cuffs that easy, so if Monolith is right about the restraint mode/locked mode I guess they just don't know how to lock'em properly.

Restraint mode and locked mode? That's interresting, I'll have to ask him about that.

No, I know the -1/2 is the limitation value. I was asking if the Lockpicking roll the limitation calls for gets a positive or negative modifier to open the lock. Considering the fact that my friend popped them open in less than a second (and even taught me how to do it), I would call that a +3 or a +5 and I'm figuring the the limitation value should be more than 1/2; maybe 3/4 or 1. YMMV.