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Re: WWYCD: Hero with "Questionable" Political Views Vitus holds all those views. Anybody else with the same ideas he'ld welcome with open arms. Admittedly he comes from a Bronze-age type culture, hanging onto survival by the skin of its teeth, but he considers Earth to a aggravatingly wealthy civilisation, healthy enough that it can afford to waste time on idiotic ideas like representative democracy, mercy for dangerous felons, etc. At least Vitus would have someone to commiserate with everytime the rest of the party stopped him cutting someone's throat

Re: When Champions Begat Vitus had an adopted son once... his parents had been eaten during the Great Pilgrimage from Heiropolis to Cynidocea. Vitus didn't have much actually time with him, and most recently poor Paki was disemboweled by Scorpia and eaten alive by a monster in front of Vitus's eyes. So Vitus doesn't have a family any more and without some sort of incestous sexchange and cloning arrangement seems unlikely to have any in the future either.

Re: WWYCD for a klondike bar? (humorous please) Vitus - not much - the theobromine content would probably make him desperately ill

Re: WWYCD: The Breakup Let's see, Zero/Truman Golightly - approached by a woman? An actual woman? who actually wants to talk to him? About romantic issues? Once he stops stuttering (let's give him, say, a week) may be persuaded to mindjam the stalker. Into believing, for example, that his lover has jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge rather than be with him a moment longer. Sure, the woman would probably have to change identities, move away, etc, and the rest of The Edge would have to deal with a deluded and griefstricken super who may well blame these superheroes she's been seeing... but a girl actually talked to Zero Vitus on the other hand would add it to his long list of reasons Earthly society is hopelessly demented. What's wrong with this girl? Doesn't she have a father and brothers that can demonstrate to the unwelcome suitor the more emphatic uses for a length of two-by-four? And what's wrong with arranged marriages in the first place? All this guff about choice of partner - marriages arranged thru parent and clan always worked on HIS world... Once he's finished muttering about all this he'd set her up in one of the empty apartments in the Skeleton Crew tenement (no doubt anticipating complaints along the lines of "when did this place become a ****ing refuge shelter?!"), and go have a quiet world with the gentleman concerned. Pointing out that in the absence of any relatives to do the job, he'll be on hand as her protector, executor of her dowry (what is a suitable bride price on Earth, anyway?) and so on. Furthermore, he can't be considered a possible competitor for her affection since she's human, he's a gnoll, and he finds humans a deeply unattractive species, especially naked. Then he'd probably have to subdue an enraged superhuman, and kick him repeatedly in the gonads to ensure that he won't be interested in any sort of mate for a long time. The funny thing is Vitu doesn't consider himself a violent person... it's just that violence is usually the quickest way to get results.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: WWYCD: Lost in a world without Supers; 9/11/2001 Funnily enough I was thinking the last few days, what would be the best way to avert 9-11, given one man (or woman) a wallet-full of cash, and a time machine. I decided a pre-scripted call to everybody remotely concerned, and then various media outlets, would probably deal with it most neatly. especially if the assumed names could be included. in this WWYCD? Vitus is in something of an unenviable position. Blatantly non-human, distinctly threatening in appearence, too ignorant of Earth culture to even recognise the significance of the date without some big hints, and prone to respond with deadly force the first time someones takes a potshot at him (it happens all too often - he arrives somewhere new and the locals panic - he's getting very tired of it but sometimes the survivors are polite enough to apologise for starting it) Once he DOES deign to be lead off into custody (which he'd be happy enough to do if the arresting officers/agents etc are respectful enough) he'ld pass on as much information as he can recall, stress the urgency, and then leave them to it. He'ld certainly assist at the airports if he could, and his spell to stun large crowds, or distingrate metal, would probably come in handy.. but the mere appearence of a 7-foot tall anthropomorphic hyena would probably be causing enough panic already. (It goes without saying that anybody that tries to dissect him is a dead man)

Re: WWYCD - The Night of the Dead Let's see... Truman Golightly would probably be visited by Mother. Which would probably suprise the the rest of The Edge, since he goes on about her enough to imply she's still alive. As opposed, to, for example, sitting mummified in the old house near the motel. Truman would probably spend most of the night babbling that he didn't mean to be a bad boy, or become a superhero, and please don't put knitting needles in my ears, Mommy. Vitus ... poor Vitus... a dead universe behind him, and his path strewn with the bodies of everybody that trusted him and gave their lives to keep him alive. Vitus might be unbelievably arrogant (as Purrdence puts it, "Vitus could run a Pride March of one") but there was more then enough well-buried survivor guilt in his psychology even before he seemed responsible for erasing his homeworld's timeline. Vitus would probably be visited by one of his old comrades... and fry under the weight of their accusing gaze

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... feel free.. it was Truman who said it.

Re: WWYYCD: The Rally *chokes laughing* the KKK? and Vitus a 7ft tall spellcasting hyena from another universe? oh, this is going to be sweet. Firstly, Vitus wouldn't give a stuff about the politics. Earth culture is insane by his standards. In fact he'ld probably find the situation of walking the edge of the crowd profoundly boring, right up until one of them decides to insult him, on the grounds that he's not Aryan (being a 7ft tall spellcasting hyena from another universe, and all) And Vitus would take a good long look at the culprit, up and down, say something along the lines of "So.. you're a deformed neotenous monkey... you're bald, ugly, and chronically stupid.. your government is all mob rule and appeasement of the lowest common denominator... you worship a loser with a stupid moustache and wear pyjamas in broad daylight.. and you're a superior race how?" Should they, hopefully, take a swing at him, Vitus would then happily and efficiently knee them in the testicles and drag them off to the paddywagon. Truman Golightly would freak - he's paranoically afraid of being found out as a superhero anyway (his late mother told him it wasn't dignified) and he'ld avoid the entire event

Re: Wow....that is a useless power for sure.... Another from Wildcards - Senility Man! able to age at will. Of course, he can't get young again...

Re: Using the Warlord

Re: WWYCD: Mirror Universe Hmm.. interesting question - Vitus is not easily pigeon-holed into moral categories. He's not amoral, per se, but rather (as I've discussed at length elsewhere) moral = whatever feels neccesary at the time Getting back home (well, previous timeline) wouldn't be TOO difficult - he's a fairly accomplished if unwilling planeswalker. Stealing everything he needs wouldn't put his nose out of joint either, especially given any of the following. And he's met alternate versions of himself before, too. One came from an alternate version of his homeworld, where he had chosen to learn enchantments rather than conjuration. Despite having chosen a sphere of magic Vitus Prime despises, and despite only being in Aura Prime to organise the evacuation of a timeline now almost totally overrun by a demonic invasion, this other Vitus seemed to be much happier than 'the real Vitus'. This left him rather disturbed, and plagued with deeply-supressed self-doubt So what is this other Vitus actually up to? Crazed with grief, and on a destructive rampage? Or simply still unaware of the fate of Aura and desperately trying to assemble the requirements (by any means neccesary) for a fool-proof return to to home? If the latter, locate him and break the bad news. If the former, locate him, judge him, and if he seems salvagable, recruit him to the effort of getting home. If he's genetically different he could be useful in my ongoing plan to rebirth the race of gnolls. Or if I find him too dangerous, kill him. Wild mages are too dangerous to live. Quite possibly mid-negotiation. Vitus attempts that fairly often - altho it usually hasn't worked. On the other hand, should they meet again later under different circumstances, he'll happily chat with them over tea and cakes (different circumstances = different course of action). Funnily enough, most of them still bear a grudge, much to Vitus's exasperation.

Re: WWYCD: Evil in Innocence Weld the kid's hands into spell-cutting manacles, chain him to the wall in a suitably prepared pit under the Skeleton Crew's tenement block, throw him the occasional rat to eat, if I remember, and wait 15 years till he reachs the age of majority, THEN kill him. Vitus is not very merciful with evil magic-users. A Mage War was one of the causes of his home universe's devestating dimensional instability.

Re: "Why'd you yell FIRE! when you fell into the chocolate?" hmmm. interesting! "Food of the Gods" indeed...

Re: "Why'd you yell FIRE! when you fell into the chocolate?" Hmm... Vitus would not be happy. Chocolate in fur??? Be worse if he was actually canine as opposed to hyena-based tho (is theobromine poisonous to hyenas as well as dogs, I wonder?)

Re: "Why'd you yell FIRE! when you fell into the chocolate?" Blasphemy! I thought "Happiness Patrol" (the ep in question) was brilliant - also got top marks in my final English exam comparing it to 1984 (altho I admit the Kandyman did spend most of the episodes glued to the floor, when he wasn't killing people with fondant suprise)

Re: 50 Word Superhero Stories! The Next Best Revenge Grey walls, floor, and light. Dull sounds of fear and incarceration. My fur is blackened, still seared by my fury. I can still smell burning meat. They tell me I was extreme. Perhaps, on this world, a pimp does not deserve to die. But finally, I can feel at peace.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... More Vitus interviews - The Skeleton Crew are in something of a bad odour with the press and public at the moment - mostly due to the 200ft wide chunk of city that went missing along with 60 Primus agents and 20 cops, when Vitus pulled off his stunt with the Keystone. Vanishing for a couple of days whilst they dealt with ARPA, Telieos, and the Amazing Clone Woman didn't help either. All that and Vitus's tendency to froth at the mouth anytime somebody brings up Eurostar means the Playgirl article has been held back a few months too... First the media-pack asked him what happened to all the missing officers. "Same thing that I did to the rest of us. They could be anywhere. Or anywhen." Vitus TRIED to tell the press that there's a good chance the missing persons are still alive. "No, it's not if they'll be in Deep Space or Venus or anywhere like that - even uncontrolled dimensional gates will drop you somewhere where you can survive. For a while." Damn his honest nature. "No, that doesn't mean they're going to die. They could already be back! Temporal distortion effects might have got them back here two hundred years ago. They could arrive in the post any day now!" Vitus was starting to get a bit upset by this point. Especially when he was asked what on Earth possessed him to do something so dangerous, in the first place? Does he have any words for the relatives of the missing? "Do I feel guilty??? Missing? Only 80 casualties and you ask me if I'm guilty??? Eighty dead would be a small price to pay to destroy those *starting to froth* ***ing ******s. I'll see that Whore of Satan dead at any price - she killed my son!!!! *becoming incoherent with rage at being reminded of Scorpia and is dragged off by his teammates before he can answer any more questions* Apparently the Whore of Satan line got a lot of coverage in Hard Copy that night. Vitus has been informed that that he will never speak to the press again without a prepared statement - prepared by somebody else - and if he deviates from that statement he won't be allowed to talk to anybody again, ever.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Weldun's campaign, hunting technology thieves in the Utility Tunnels. my Mentalist, Truman Golightly - "Don't they have cameras down here?" Sundog's character Terminus - "What for?" Truman - "to film the turtles?" Terminus - "what turtles?" Barbara's Chaos Mage - "I think he means the alligators" Avatar of the Sun - "You have ALLIGATORS in your sewers?" Chaos Mage - "No no no... we've got CROCODILES" Terminus - "But they're not even native to this continent!" Chaos Mage - "Yeah, but they keep the rats down" Avatar of the Sun - "But what do the rats eat?" Chaos Mage - "They eat the alligators" Truman - "What happened to the turtles?" Chaos Mage - "The alligators eat them" Truman - "....You bought me down here with alligators?" Terminus - "No no no - you only have to watch out for the aliens" Truman - ".... aliens..." Chaos Mage - "yeah, but you only have to outrun the aliens" Truman and Chaos Mage together - "Lessee.. you've got armour... you can fly.. you can teleport..." Truman - "You BASTARDS, you brought me down here as bait!" Chaos Mage - "Yeah, you're right, you are screwed"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Vitus, veering left from suicidal depression, bloody vengeance and spiteful destruction, into the calm if temporary waters of mild equimanity , and having rescued young Shiarie from the clutches of Telieos, the Perfect Man "So, how was your day?" Shiarie - "how was my DAY??? I get kidnapped by a maniac, told I'm a clone, and my sister is going to be his unwilling girlfriend? How do you think my day was?" Vitus - "Ah. My only lover was beheaded, my adopted son mutiliated and murdered in front of me, and my entire home universe erased from existance." Shiarie - "..." The Spectre - "..." The Spectre - "well, that beats my story" Shiarie - "jeez, you really hate to lose, don't you?"

Re: "Down-to-Earth" special powers cool beans!

Re: Suggest a Name? Why give away the source of your powers at all? pick a totally misleading name. Chibi Princess Aoki perhaps. The villains will be boggling to hard to fight back.

Re: WWYCD: Crisis of Champions! Despair and anger, to start off with. Vitus has already lost his entire home universe (and there is some evidence that he was indirectly responsible). Up to discovering that, his entire life revolved around healing his homeworld, or getting back to it as quickly as possible. And now he's going to die saving a world he has next to no compassion for? He'ld look on the bright side eventually - he can be as brutally and bloodily efficient as he likes, as he won't be around afterwards anyway.

Re: WWYCD: Bodyparts Away! If it was his hands or arms, Vitus would be screwed. All his spells require gestures. Even his teammates have made him quite helpless by glueing him to a wall with whale vomit. Of course, it didn't do his temper any good and neither would chasing down the Hairy Paw of Magical Doom. Gods help anybody that gets in the way...

Re: WWYCD: Fundamentalist against non-tech supers. Vitus (hyena-man mage from another universe) would have no patience with the ***hole at all. He has, after all, worked for gods; met them and their servants; thwarted the plans of others; located and most definately avoided Eldar Gods; promoted his own religion with himself as Alchemical Prophet (for very good reasons too); willingly given up his role as hierarch to someone better suited to take the Cult of Usimagarus onto bigger and better things; died 3 times and come back from the dead; led pilgramages and religious uprisings; been crucified (he still has the scars); and been to hell more times then he cares to remember. Once he served as bar-staff. On his most recent visit, his only ever lover and his adopted son were both mutilated and murdered in front of him. "I have BEEN to your Hell, preacher man - you have only read about it" Vitus would very likely be going down for flagrant murder on live TV.