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Re: WWYCD: The Orb Cyrande would likely be called on to investigate what the alien artifact is. Surprisingly, she would have a fairly good chance to recognize what the artifact does. And when she does... Well, she'll wonder who made it. (Malva in our world having full immersion Holodecks, tazz, and thought reading AIs, this kind of stuff is hardly new to her.) Nox would hardly be called in on her own, though her powers would be helpful for an evac. However, if Diomedes is there, and this does so... Well, the question is whether the unconscious desires would be Nox's... or Shadowstrike(evil spirit she's possessed by). Artemis is surprisingly the most likely to find it, in her world(Hey, full life support, likes to explore, and can shapeshift to anything to survive down there) Of course, given our group, it's likely to end up a time traveling trap... *sighs* Ah, Tuesday.

Re: WWYCD?: The blatant-ening. To note, the original theme was posted, Pendaren posted it in his own words. And he does have a sense of humor, as anyone whose read more then just his posts here. But considering the posts lately used against people lately have stripped me of patience, they've likely done the same to his sense of humor. Perhaps if the people responding to threads would do less "You are a munchkin" whenever someone comes up with something different then what they expected. Given that two of my major characters can survive nukes, I hate being told what they can't do. I can tell you that myself. And quite frankly, I'm a vampire gm, I can come up with tons of no win situations on my own, thank you. I can recognize them quite fine, thank you.

Re: WWYCD: So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish... Artemis: "See, this is another way human gods don't pay any attention to my domain." *sighs, goes to talk to all the creatures, especially whales to figure out what happened.

Re: WWYCD?: The blatant-ening. This doesn't really sound much more far fetched than half the 'realistic choices' WWYCDs people post. It's gotten to the point where too many are just "Do this obvious choice." that it's weakened the concept to mere political and iron age comments on superheros.

Re: WWYCD?: The blatant-ening. I'm reminded of the solution Jonathen Swift made to the Irish problem. Though I do have to admit, it needed more buildup. (Note, for those who haven't read it, it basically takes the "solutions" the English were talking about the Irish problem, and taking it a tiny step further into cannibilism. Simile exists.)

Re: The Ultimate WWYCD: Ninja or Pirate! Cyrande: Pirate, of course. who ever heard of a Ninja Queen? Flamboyant, showy, having fun sailing the skies and seas. Nox: Ninja, of course(Please, shadowmagic and martial arts?). A good Ninja, only going sneakly after the bad guys. Artemis: Lets see, she's a scout, loves changing into small forms to fight, can sneak in almost anywere, and packs more punch then it appears. Poor Thera, she's a ninja again. Amusingly enough, each team split exactly up the middle.

Re: Code vs Killing, in your group? Hmm... interesting. My experience with CvKs has been limited.(I had one character with no CvK, one with total, one at strong,and my current has a zero point reluctent) I don't think people with totals should be penalized for having only non lethal attacks. Heck, I would look very, very askew at a Total CvK having an overtly lethal attack. Of course, I also think most heros should be, at most, Strong CvK. Total CvKers are fanatics about it. And that should be obvious. Heck, my total CvKer nearly had a breakdown about members of her team killing Nazis, in a WWII situation. However, I don't know that having no CvK makes it any better on a team. A mixture can be good, but it can be an explosive one with lots of infighting if the gm isn't careful. One or two people may have to leave, or change drastically if it goes wrong.

Re: [Online Game]New 'Marvel: Next Generation' game Hmm, I wouldn't so much say uncommon as.. quiet. I mean, heck, at least two of the Avenger's foes are heavy magic(Morgan Le Fay and Cthon, with Set being an honorary contender), and *coughs* I certainly count Thor in the "magic" user catagory, along with Black Knight. Or, any of the Midnight Sons stuff or Hellstorm. Heck, even Agatha Harkness... which just gave me an idea for a character, but I won't post it. Hmmm. There's a lot of magic, it's just most of Marvel's magic seems to be items, gods or supernaturals, not spell wielders.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Hmm, I read the first one and liked it... but I got badly burned on the Anita Blake stuff.(Seriously, her first few books were interesting and good, then...) So, can I ask how badly they "level up" the main character? Or does he stay a real person throughout. I know it sounds silly, but... don't want to get burned again.

Re: Boogiemen that are actually /scary/... Not much details. Basically, they're the new Spider spirits(2.0 has only werewolves as were creatures now), that when they slip through the cracks in the world, take on Spider form. If they can find a human sleeping, who is weak enough and small enough, they coccon them at night, then climb in, starting to eat the brain, becoming grossly fat and taking it over... As they eat more and more of the body, they start taking on spider traits on the outside. Plus, since their main "goal" is more, they try and capture other people to do this too, using the body. Foolish ones use force, elder ones... well, you can imagine if you were the spirit of Spider what webs you could weave.

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Re: Yet ANOTHER WWYCD: Against your team Wow, interesting one. Cyrande: Never actually played this out, but...Warmaster Fielan(mentalist), she's toast against(No MD). Everyone else, she has a small(Horus, Starguard) to very good chance against(Warp, Microman). Then again, it's very unlikely anyone on the team besides Cyrande would be so easily controled to go after the rest. (In case you need the small print, Cyrande's main powers are a 180pt VPP of Quantum Powers, Armor 30/30, a Quantum sense(which would be a nasty surprise to Warp, given she can sense him, his ports and stop them while still being able to blast him) And about 15 pts in MA skills. Then again, her last build was at 800 pts) Nox: Ok, given that the rest of the team just faced her evil self, and that everyone's been prepping for that... given the conditions, most of them are still toast. She'd seperate them, the Diomedes would be the one Nox would take out first(Least Armor, tactician, plus can build something to hurt her), Perigrine next(Darkness field, entangle, then just a plain beatdown), and Mallable Man(basic beatdown.) Then, she'd try and run Valor ragged, see if she could get an entangle to stick and shadowbolt him down, running if she gets too low on End.) (What can I say. Shadowmage, with desolid, darkness, entangles, Clarivoince and teleportation, with an MAs dex and the third best armor in the group. There's a reason evil me can take on the team.)

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Oh, yeah. I actually think this is one of my favorite books by her, though I reread Paladin of Souls more often(Avoid Wild Hunt like the plague. The first outright bad book I've seen from her.) Though, I found it disturbing, which is one reason I don't reread it often. It's much more viscerial then the Miles' books.

Re: How important is presentation... Hmm, I would have told both of them to go back to the drawing board. Or more likely, sat down and found out why they wanted to play "that." Quite frankly, both of those descriptions made my head hurt. Oh, and I can see why the GM wouldn't think the first one "clicked." It feels very jumbled, as if the person is just adding stuff to make his character "cooler". The second... well, like it or not, Superman is an easily grasped archetype for the game. It's not simplier, but it feels simplier. That might be what your gm meant. Sadly, when you're gming, you tend to want simple starts, the players add more then enough complications on their own.

Re: WWYCD: The rest of the world's Supers just changed sex. Cyrande: Doesn't bug her especially. Admittedly, it would very much bother her teammates. Then again, given how much the gender relationships change on Earth... (Cyrande is from Malva. Gender is mostly a preference. And she's already noted in background as culturally bisexual.) Though I can just imagine how Sunguard and Isis are going to take the fact that Cyrande would still be flirting with Isis. Nox- "Just, please, please, tell me you all aren't evil me's harem. I don't want to think of my teammates like that. And how the heck did Shadowstrike possess him when she can only possess females?" A short pause, blush "oh." (The rest of Aegis are male. It looks very different when it's four girls and one guy and the guy is a darkness mage/martial artist.) Lightshow- "Um, I was a guy? I know the light's kind of blinding, but I didn't think it was... Oh, god." Embaressed look at Kolabrandr and Banner "Um, I come in peace? Or what the hell are you supposed to say? I know Captain America would know...oh, geeze." Looks up at the sky "I want to go home."

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I suppose I should list one of the bad ones. Guardian of the Balance, by Irene Radford. It's supossed to be a "desendents of Merlin" type of story... and while technically, it is, it doesn't work well at all. Starting with the overly gratiutious sex scenes(Yes, I know how that sounds, but when the book opens with one even before we know the characters), basically makes Merlin an idiot, user, and an almost general bad guy, I'm not impressed. And trying to make this book insultingly "girl power" is even worse. Nothing happens unless Merlin or one of the females is making it happen. Though, it delights in raping and abusing the female characters. Arthur is treated like an idiot(Which, by the one, is not Uther's son. The person speculates that Merlin was keeping a lot of boys on the string to pick which one would become King), that the best knights were his childhood friends, and various other twistings. And despite all that, it couldn't even hold my interest for more then a few pages. In other words, avoid.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... ... I once ran a game of Demon Hunter X. Never got to play...And the shih are my favorite WW group, bar none. Your's sounds like a great game.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... *whimpers* Oh, I am so envious....

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Well, reply to my PM. Honestly, I'm slightly wondering if I should have put the force wall power in now. I don't mind spending my first action sheilding people, but it may be more then that... or at least, spend some of that saved xp to take concentration off it. It does free up some of the rest of the team, but I'd like to fight too... and keeping that up long means I cant. Or actually... I need a better Rec. Hmm... *takes more notes*

Re: WWYCD - a deal with the devil ...I really, really hope this isn't someone pulling a trick. Nox wouldn't even listen. She already accidently made one deal with a devil(She was dying, someone offered to help her... she later found out it's an evil spirit trying to come back into the world through her.) Cyrande, on the other hand.... Ok, one, she's a Malvan princess, she's watched what would be worse then the most horrendous atrocities on Earth as court entertainment. So if it's a "human" devil, she's likely laugh in his face. Humans, evil? Oh, of course some are, but the race is fairly close to angels from her persective. And if it's someone showing up as a "Malvan" devil.... congratulations, you just called all her team in, as either it's a King of Edom or a Elder Worm. And Cyrande's reaction to that, is well "Die now, foul being, before you can spread your foulness any further." to the worm, and if it's a King of Edom... well, that's what Malvan battlefleets are for.

Re: WWYCD: Lost in a world without Supers; 9/11/2001 Cyrande is an alien princess who would consider it a "nice gesture*" to stop the planes. And she is quite capable of doing so(She's got a 180pt No Endurance Quantum Power VPP). Afterwards, she'd likely try and use her celebrity to focus on her first objective, seeing if humanity can be "uplifted" to the stars. In fact, this world makes a better subject then the Champions one.... *IE, she's doing it because the very idea pisses her off, but she comes from a world with no heros. So, she uses her old vocabulary. Nox, on the other hand, plays hell with the terrorists. Blackouts the Boston Airport, turns the terrorists over to the cops babbling everything they know.(*coughs* 60+ Presence for Intimidation), then nearly killing herself porting to the other airports, which she likely would have called in bomb threats while she was in boston waiting. And if she was late... well, she can't do anything while the planes are in the air, but hope. In all likelyhood, would go into hiding after this, waiting for the rest of Aegis to show up, and tries to figure things out in this strange future world.(She's from 1993. Plus, Nox and Sherry(her human form) are completely different, other then both being female.) If they don't... Sherry will live the rest of her life out, just trying to make a difference. That's what heroes do.

Re: WWYCD: The Vanishing!!!??!!! Cyrande would sigh, turn to the rest of the team, and go "I'm sorry, Father must have been a little more interested then I thought. I'll go see what he did." (Hey, when you're the Crown Princess of Malva, you expect your father to pull stunts like this.) If it wasn't him... then it would get interesting. Nox would be... stunned(By the way, Nox is set a year after Detriot got destroyed) First thing she'd think is a supervillian or master mage got carried away with a plan. She'd try and use her Postcognition to "see" what happened. Then she and her team would go from there.(Surprisingly, her team would scale up well to higher levels, if needed.)

Re: WWYCD: "Dude, you stole my shtick!" Cyrande would be furiuos, looking to kill the person in the shortest time possible. Who would dare claim the name and position of the Crown Princess of Malva? Nox would probably go and check them out. *shrugs* her name is hardly origional, after all, and she'd enjoy meeting another darkness manipulator. If they're a villian though... well, that's what teams are for.

Re: WWYCD: Flipside eek Crown Princess Cyrande would go from being a paranoid, but decent person to someone who's open about herself, hates Malva and says so, and has the moral sense of Paris Hilton. Oh, and if Flipside is handsome, he's getting bedded... unless Horus is there, in which case he's the one getting dragged off. Nox... I feel sorry for Flipside. And sorry for anyone else around. (20pt Code vs Killing, 15pt Believes Good will win, and a few others that support it) Reverse all of those... and Nox becomes a villian who truly supports evil for it's own sake, for about 6 or so days before her possessor takes her over.(And given Nox is a Shadowmage/MA, with Desoliod, teleportation, and a whole host of other darkness tricks, it's going to be very tough to stop her.)