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Re: Best Iron Age titles? Hooray for Marshal Law - Vietnam, American politics, superhero comics, the Mars Attacks cards, the Great San Francisco Earhquake and John Pilger makes for a pretty heady mix. A great, morally ambigous, and damn funny script by Pat Mills. And for wonderfully anarchic violence Kevin O'Neill has yet to be topped.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat tell him De Beers want a word about that coal-into-diamond trick NT : Top Three Surprising Uses For Squid

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat nowhere, I just like making people feel inadequate

Re: WWYCS: "Why Shouldn't I Kill Him?" another compromise. "fine, let him go. From the top of that office block onto his head is good. He'll have a good 15 seconds to learn how to fly"

Re: WWYCS: "Why Shouldn't I Kill Him?" nah.. no chance at all

Re: WWYCD: Alternate Identities Vitus? Give up his cherished identity and name. not a bloody chance. being a 7-foot tall anthro hyena wouldn't make it easy anyway. Zero could change identities easily enough,. if he needs to. He prefers not to be noticed tho, so inconspicous would still be best. Hell, he could just take his costume off and no-one would recognise him.

Re: WWYCS: "Why Shouldn't I Kill Him?"

Re: WWYCD: Merchandising Hell Been there, done that - where the rest of his team-mates were happy to stick him upsidedown to a wall with whale vomit and hand him over to Eurostar, Vitus's other colleague The Storm Lord instead used his alter ego's financial nous to get a range of Vitus Action Figures into production. Action figures as insulting and foul-mouthed as possible. Vitus is aware of them, but hasn't realised they're supposed to be insulting yet.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... indeed. But when even the supervillians interrupt you have to think that the universe is out to get you. It wasn't the first time either - the first night he actually got to spend with 3 in his apartment, his neighbours Felicity, Shiarie, and several hundred gestalt-intelligent rats came in to watch. and thanks for the rep

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Vitus is currently enjoying some 'quality time' with his concubine 3, for the first time in ages. First they're interupted by the Spectre, who wants to show off the latest magazine coverage of the group. Vitus is unimpressed. Seethingly so. this is promptly followed by more coitus interruptus when Void teleports in with an urgent message. Vitus's response "WHAT????!! The coathanger is on the door!!!" which is when Firewing burns his way in thru the wall. Vitus is now apoplectic. "What is WRONG with you people????" At least Firewing had the decency to apologise and back out.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... sadly, they're usually right to do so

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... One of the others complained that he always seems to be the only responsible one in the party. I protested "Excuse me - Vitus is always responsible. [pause] Or should that be culpable?"

Re: The Ultimate WWYCD: Ninja or Pirate! hmmm. Truman might make a very average ninja accountant. But Vitus? Pirate. Ruthless, bloody, treasure-gathering pirate. And godhelp anybody that tried to get in his way, or follow him back to his island.

Re: Richest Man in the World Disease Truman/Zero gets by. But then, he's a quite powerful telepath who spends his lunchbreaks outside the stock exchange, etc. Most of the funds hethen acculmulates go into his collection of 50's Americana. The Skeleton Crew have a base now? Great! more room to store and display his stuff. Vitus, on the otherhand, has zero income. The small quantity of material he carries with him in case of fiscal emergency aren't legal tender on Earth, and the barter system hasn't been used in a long time. Even his attempts at exchanging magic lessons for local currency earned him nothing more than a migraine headache. Celebrity = cash is a concept that has so far eluded him completely. He considered special effects work, but of course, he's not a member of the union... So he's currently living on the charity of a local teammate he can't stand.

Re: WWYCD: It's time for the Megaman KidZ Show! *boggles* Vitus in a kid's cartoon? A man who regularly, even without making a big deal of it, drops drug-dealers off the Republican River Bridge head first? Who was not merely unconcerned when his new "elephant prod" spell set a VIPER thug and his literally cardboard armour on fire, but was happily skipping towards the next one when his teammates held him down? Are they talking to the right guy? must be part of the Storm Lord's revenge... and the Storm Lord is a TEAM MEMBER

Re: How does a world die? i did wonder what long-term effect that superflare would have had on the climate - especially when everything flammable on half the planet just went up in smoke. The phytoplankton over the same area would have been cooked alive, too...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... *blushes* thankyou

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Vitus D'rhazz ul Kashrak ur R'rasschd has never assumed a 'superhero name' He's proud of who he is (very proud). That hasn't stopped his teammates calling him Gloryhound, after the Gravitar media-pack incident, or Whorehound now he's hanging around with his concubine 3

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... close - *second* favourite concubine. No doubt they're some interesting political reason why she hasn't got more status in the Tanashim culture than she does, and why they (and she) prefer to use her for entertaining (and spying on) VIP guests, but Vitus hasn't bothered to ask and 3 isn't saying She'll be so flattered not as busy as she'ld like. And she's not so pleased with having to cook, either. SERVING food, on the other hand - but there are supposed to be other slaves to do the dirty work.

A New Name For 3 - Innuendo Lass Vitus picked up a reward for saving a world recently. This reward is 3, a skilled courtesan and concubine. Returning to Earth Vitus embarks on months of research, and 3's player pipes up with. "I help! I get to hold his pencil!" She then blushed very pink when she realised why we were laughing at her. Her mere presence degenerates every game into this sort of thing, but whatthehey, it's still fun

Re: GM Help: Supervillainous Death Rarity doesn't stop support groups. Hell, Tachyon's death could become a cause celebre for groups all over the political spectrum. And the conspiracy nuts, too, especially with that assassin's involvement.

Re: WWYD - Marvel's Civil War Hmm. Truman Golightly/Zero would freak and flee the country. He's already upset enough that the government knows who he is, and more so that it wa a teammate that secretly recorded his identity and passed it on. Vitus D'rhazz ul Kashrak ur R'raschd would consider the implications & events they unfold, and then gleefully sign on, for the oppurtunity to beat the living crap out of 'other' supers, with official backing. Have I mentioned his resentment of those who get their abilities thru mutation or machinery, as opposed to hard work?

Re: GM Help: Supervillainous Death You've said that the DA doesn't WANT to prosecute - but what if he isn't given a choice? Political pressue from an anti-super politician, or an insurance company, or a Kelvarite-Victim Disability Group... and cliched as it is , Tachyon coming back as a energy being (Speedo Ghost? any 2000AD readers out there?) is reasonable...

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero *falls over laughing* You have the win!

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero "Because my team mates will protect me when Dr Destroyer comes looking for revenge"