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Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Well I thought "dress him in his dad's stuff" but Balder changed costumes fifty million times. Plus the mini horn helmet always looked a bit goofy. He looked good when he was the helmetless overlord of Asgard or when he thinned up in his mini. Besides, the Black Widow wore multiple variations on featureless pitch black bodystocking, and she was a mainstay And Dane Whitman at one point ditched the helmet and wore a leather jacket over his chainmail, as the pockets let him carry around crap. Beyond that, the silver discs thing basically make it a Thunderstrike style costume. While I'm at it, Excalibur was basically for the longest time (i.e. years and years) a conventional supers team book that had wacky and lighthearted adventures, and Phoenix went around in what amounted to bondage gear. The above desc is comparatively tame.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 So I haven't exactly figured out a costume.. I'm nominally thinking something that concedes to his survivalist impulses while still looking like a costume. Mostly what comes to mind is something that riffs on Macbeth's outfit from Gargoyles, which was a grey duster over form fitting clothes that had padding over the vitals. He doesn't feel very bright shiny costume, or big suit of armour, more pragmatic gear that can generally blend and be useful. Hum. Maybe something that splits the difference. Long duster worn in the place of a tunic with banded steel reinforcement over the shoulders, and Thor style steel discs on each half of the torso of it, worn open over form fitting dark trousers and a shirt, black steeltoed boots, and dark gloved hands. Though that and his face being framed by somewhat wild hair as white as his father's, with errant bangs around the blue eyes makes him /extremely/ bishounen for an Asgardian. Eh, it's the Norn blood *nods*

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Ok.. went with the name Kolbrandr the Brave, rough file should be attatched, added on personality and tactic stuff, and pasted in the background [ATTACH]20380[/ATTACH]

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 That was basically it, yeah. Cap and Iron Man were briefly there, but Thor sent them away.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Weeell.. I'd prefer to still include the Ragnarok stuff, but it didn't have much to do with Crazy Wanda and was starting to go on-ish around the time anywho.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 When it's big flashy stuff that doesn't really amount to anything, it seemed a good way to describe it

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 I think Snake is likely going to pick out of the people that end up posting by Monday or some such.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Ok, the son of Balder bio while I work on Black Knight stats more: There was a time, or so it was whispered, when for once, Balder, noblest son of Asgard, might have ever so briefly reciprocated the affections of Karnilla the Norn Queen before ultimately spurning her for a base nature she could never truly overcome. Gripped in spite, the legends say the jilted Queen concealed the child of that ever brief union, to take a twisted comfort in her heart of having something of Balder's for her own, something he could never have and that if he knew of, would want. To ensure that Balder would not even hear of him, she deigned to have him raised and put forth as the child of one of the warriors of her court. In time her bitterness even festered enough to reveal the boy's heritage to him, as part of an effort to raise him to hate his father, and drive him to slay the God of Light. But Ragnarok of course, carried with it the end of all schemes, and the only future spread before the youth was a life in bleak and shattered ruins, amidst the bleak and shattered remnants of armies of monsters and undead. The fire of his father and mother alike drove him not to go to his end in such wasted land without struggle. That will and the innate gifts of his birth ensured that struggle turned into survival as the boy grew to become a hardened young man, a canny and furtive presence amidst the blasted planes of Asgard. Yet though it was a constant war to be waged, survival eventually was maintained, and for one with a legacy of intellect and drive, it was not enough. Learning as he had near the end of his parentage, the young man combed through the ruins of the Norn kingdom, reconstructing what he could of his mother's magics and making them his own. With them his presence was now not simply established, but feared. Spoken of by the surviving and lingering traces of evil as a ghost of Asgard, wreaking vicious slaughter in the name of retribution. In truth of course, the young man's motivation stemmed from little more than a lack of aught else to do, for growing up amongst monsters and living nearly as an animal cannot help but give a monstrous edge to the soul. And yet, perhaps as a lingering touch of his father, and perhaps that there began to be precious few beasts to vent frustrations upon, such a life was still not enough, and brought him no satisfaction, no sense of peace. He resolved at that to find what commemoration might be left of his father, perhaps the site where his body fell, perhaps even a sword he had wielded or home in which he had lived. If nothing else, it would pass the time. He journeyed through the searing fires of Muspelheim and the biting, scouring cold of Jotunheim. His soul was resilient enough to endure the empty despair of the wasted expanse of Nifelheim. Almost pointlessly epic, the youth traveled through mountain and forest, glacier and sea, until he found himself in the shattered heart of fallen Asgard. There he found a simple stone bier, the air about it almost palpably sacred, and he knew at once that this was where his father's body had rested while all gathered to give tribute unto him for his life and deeds. As he neared, a trembling who's source he could not define taking him over, he saw that Asgard's last defenders had taken to using their moments to carve into it a record of the Brave one's deeds, so that were someone, someday to come by this ruined land, deeds among the worthiest of all might outlive it in legend. The stories themselves played out vividly in the young man's mind as he read, and the force of their valor, and the gesture itself of last lifesblood spent to ensure their recording left him overwhelmed, and left him shamed. His life had been so petty and small, his deeds so cruel and useless. What merit was there to his survival, in the face of such a man? What worth could there be to his life, measured against such nobility? And though for different reasons, like his father had before him in empty desert, the youth cried out in despair, in rage, in pain striking at his soul. And like his father before him, he was answered. For as reality endured, so too did destiny, and so too the weaver Norns that sat over it, that had beheld Thor's decision to end the cycles of Ragnarok, and had graced Balder himself with visions to inspire him back to valor. They brought to the youth his father's shade, to complete his training as a warrior, in tactics, in battle, in command, in honour. To counsel him in finding purpose to his soul, and to tell him the full scope of Asgard's final days. And in such bittersweet reunion was that purpose gained, as the tale was told of Thor granting a final rest to the warriors of Asgard that had been cruelly enslaved to act out Ragnarok as an endless cycling hollow play for those that Lived Above in Shadow. How Thor had gained the strength to obtain that freedom from his time among Midgard, from his life among humanity, from their strength of heart and spirit. From the Earth itself. There was a debt thusly owed from the gods of Asgard to the mortals of Midgard, one that a worthy champion might devote his life to repaying. One that fate had graced the son of Balder with a chance to enact, and one which before departing once more to his rest, his father's spirit offered to him as a purpose to take up in his name. Though the journey was no less harrowing than it had been to Asgard's shattered halls, with the strength of noble and powerful legacies, and through his own innate quality, the journey to Midgard was made. It has been some years since that the young man has spent walking its cities. Fighting the wicked, the monstrous, standing before those that would shatter the world of mortals as the world of immortals had been and battling them back with magic, might, a strong sword arm and an indomitable will. And in such fashion is spent a hero's life. Yet though he has the preternatual beauty and grace of both his parents, and their regal force of personality, his is a more fiercely edged heroism. For he is still the youth that grew and survived in nightmare, and still the young man that knows how fragile a world can be, and how sudden disaster can come. Though he strives to live up to his father's nobility, it is the firey passion within him that compels him to so strive in the first place. He does not simply repay the mortals, he has come to love them for their vibrant lives and struggles, and takes enjoyment in a world that by comparison to much of his life, is a veritable paradise. And so, as the mortals would say, he fights hard, trains hard, and then parties like a rockstar. Such is the life of the son of Balder.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 As I bog down in ways to express the Black Knight's gear satisfactorily, I lean more to the kid of Balder idea, though, to note, for his background I would be using Oeming's whole Ragnarok thing, which wiped out, well.. almost every damn body in Asgard and the connecting planes (Jotunheim and the like), have the char be a kid of Karnilla the Norn Queen and Balder's that grew up on his own in basically post apocalypse Asgard. General base stat buffness, a minor-ish magic pool, some degree of superstrength, and a ton of skills fighting and otherwise would likely be the general shtick.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Hrm.. I'm not sure how exactly you'd express summonable armour..

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 Jeez I missed a lot of posts.. Well, if I'm still considered to be in this thing, the main idea I'm kicking around revolves around Dane Whitman having relocated to Otherworld on behest of its new Lord and Omniversal Whyness, Brian Braddock, to serve as one of his chief agents and champions there (Saturnyne has a tricky habit of suborning the Captain Britain corps now and then), Dane, being in his element has gone on to live a prosperous (if never dull) and storied life there, marrying one of its denizens and (maybe a member of the corps) and raising a kid. His son has since grown and demonstrated much of his father's aptitudes, if with a few extra touches for having an Otherworld parent, and a preferance to have learned magic, instead of science and has clamoured to enter the service of King Brian, got recognized as such, and was sent to dimension 616 as Otherworld's Champion and agent there, His dad having gifted him with his gear (if not the Ebony Blade). And also done things like taken over the Whitman ancestral estate and such, and explored his family's descent from Arthur's court. Basically, point wise, something that might end up looking like a jack of all trades master of none kind of build. Fighting skill, some wierd touches and amplified base stats for being from Otherworld, maybe a magic or gadget pool of some kind, magic armour, a flying horse, a bunch of skill. That's my main idea in rough and without big detailed fancy background, I have a few others. A very nascent alternate thought is one of Balder's kids, built in his style, but not sure if someone firmly wants an Asgardian (Balder the Brave was, basically, Captain Asgardmerica)

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 I wouldn't mind joining if there's yet room, though having looked over Champs Worldwide, I'd actually recommend 575 points or so, since it took about 568 to make the superskilled, connected, wealthy and tricked out with gadgets and knowhow El Dorado. Which is a good benchmark for anyone creating a Black Panther type. And similarly, a whole bunch of Avengers were multitalented and connected and so forth, even the bricks. I mean, Dane Whitman was a master swordsman that could take on seriously enhanced cyborgs and win, a genetic engineering capable scientist what also built lightsabers and skycycles, beloved in Otherworld, and wielded a magical longsword that could parry Wolverine's claws and otherwise cut through anything. And currently ontop of that has magic, energy absorbing and blasting armour that he can summon to him with a command word. And a superhuman flying horse. As an example of the Black Knight. The JLA tended to be noteworthy for being ridonkulous powerhouses (well, outside of Batman), a lot of Avengers by comparison have been diversely talented or powered. Quasar has shield agent hand to hand training that comes up every time he makes a pair of energy nunchuks and uses them with amusing accuracy.

Re: WWYCD: framed Have they also conveniently removed any trace of one's approach through the city that could be gathered to contradict the cameras' timeline as part of this railroading hose job? Which apparently includes accepting bags being handed to you by Viper agents instead of having the option to sensibly tell them to put them on the floor?

Re: The White Knight defense he actually has more defense than that from a bit ago, as an idle note.

Re: Who's the most nearly-invulnerable... just a quick clarify on Horus, the weakness is against darkness/shadow powers, not black magic with the darkness special effect, and the effect of the weakness is that his absorptions don't work and his DR falls to 50%, not 25%. He can also use the VPP to counteract the weakness on his DR, though that means his STR is fairly limited in fights like that for what he can do with it (no added effects to it, stays at 80, etc.). Among other things his VPP is good for is buffing existing powers with things, like his defenses, which is potentially relevant against the penetrating thing. If for some reason he was just going to burn the VPP to pure defense raising/enhancing (though that reaaaallly, reaaallllly limits his capabilities overall), he'd probably be a bit tougher than usual at that.

Re: Most Embarassing Champions Moment that was a slightly inaccurate account of the fight, it was a 6th sabbat archbishop and her entire inner cluster of henchmen that I took out in one round. And then the Gangrel... It was like Superfriends, and I was Superman, and everybody gave the Gangrel kryptonite. For the entire campaign.

Re: What would your character do? #71 going by the chart of ages, Horus is actually older than the Turakian. Annnd.. the temptation is not "fix the world" The temptation is "warn Dad and make it so that he doesn't have to die this time".

Re: Schmucks? and certainly Destroyer, with all the people always looking for him to bring him down, doesn't have anything like countermeasures on that kind of deal, nor are his base's security anything but laughably penetrated by all comers. Those are plot gimmes, or uses of powers in laughably against what's generally considered fair and allowable in the games sorts of ways. What, does he use his power pool to create a power called auto sense the location of Doc Destroyer? Aren't you the person who decries the "broken" uses of Takofanes' power pool?

Re: Schmucks? that's a suprising number of plot gimmes they need there, barring the statistics discussion.

Re: Schmucks? While taking a moment to wonder how only one group of people are getting branded as "personally insulting extremists" in view of statements phrased like these, I'll also point wayy up in this thread to the listing of the various wildly varying villain point totals in that particular campaign continuity.

Re: Schmucks? except that no powerless portrayal of Reed has /ever/ assumed that. Or depictions of Reed where he's become some kind of floating brain thing in the future, or etc. Exiles to me is the benchmark of this, in that all it's alt Reeds, whoever they might be, are supergeniuses on standard Reed's levels, yet will often be completely powerless.

Re: Schmucks? well, more usually the "cosmic rays" are taken to be something other than everyday space radiation really, FF/X-men was also where faked journals were created to make Reed and co suspect he had intentionally so exposed them, ruminations like Ben's forget they weren't just hit with standard radiation.

Re: Schmucks? that really depends on how you want to read it, lots of people have used it as far as Reed being a notch better scientist than Doom and Doom being unable to accept that.

Re: Schmucks? in college, before the powers, Reed was pointing out flaws in Doom's dimension piercing machine, i.e. he could have built a better one. Reed's make himself smarter trick, if you're referring to the one that is canon, was when he needed to make himself smarter than even his normal supergenius levels for a specific thing, it's not something he routinely does. He is normally the guy who is just smart enough to build supertech, whether with a lab, or Macguyvering it from tech stuff he can get in the field. edit: whenever they do "What Ifs?" of alt Reeds, he's always a supergenius, regardless of his powers. Hell, in Exiles a totally powerless Reed was by himself taking his people from medieval tech all the way into the 1950's, then intuitively understanding alien Skrulltech to the point of making use of it to fight Galactus.

Re: Schmucks? considering the Reed without doing that trick has jigged up functional time platforms and dimension crossing spaceships... I'm aware of the mini where he did it, it's just not very relevant, it's not like without doing that he isn't the guy who invents devices to consult with alternate reality versions of himself to get second opinions on things. edit: or the guy who on being tossed unfamilliar technology at him by Doom to fight him with in a duel, mastered the use of it in seconds to the point where he had Doom on the defensive as far as the terms of said duel. or whipped up a supervillain locating tracking device on demand when he realized he didn't have one, or...