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Re: Order of the Stick Belkar is such a softie... for a homicidal sociopath that is

Re: Create a Hero Theme Team! Oh.. .new team concept time... Team Name: Malefactors Number of members: 6 Concept: Heroes in villains guise... The Malefactors appear to be a standard group of supervillains who sometimes put themselves out for hire, and other times loot and rob on their own. The truth is each one of them is a superhero who uses the bad guy facade to get close to groups like VIPER in order to deliberately bungle their plans, get intel on supervillains to tip off to the Federal Authorities annoymously, and bring to light crooked agents/cops/etc all in the name of supervillainy. Unfortunately, only three folks outside of the team know of their real mission and cannot yet tell (If anything happens to those three, the pardons the Malefactors will need will be very hard to get) so sometimes the Malefactors find themselves facing PRIMUS agents or even other superheroes! Naturally, they do their very best not to hurt said folks...after all, they're on the same side, even if not everyone knows it.

Re: Create a Hero Theme Team! Sling is the team metamorph. He stretches, but is quiet and withdrawn by nature instead of the sterotypical funny guy. He hardly talks, and when he does it is in a low whisper. No one can complain about his results, however. He can sling random objects at high velocity by snapping them forward, he's able to bind up two or three goons at a time.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! "Pathetic humans! Scavengers of the bones of my people! You shall pay, you shall know fear.... the world shall be reclaimed and cleansed, falling into a new day of Saurian supremacy! Thus swears Tri-Terror-Tops!!" A creation of The infamous Doctor Moreau's experiements into science, Tri-Terror-Tops (or 3T to his friends) is a highly evolved (And more humanoid than he enjoys anyone mentioning) Triceratops! Having escaped VIPER, He firmly believes in Dinosaur superiority, and while not a genius on Doctor Silverback's level, is highly cunning and ruthless. He believes fear is a great weapon to use against humans, and is essentially a terrorist brick. He is willing to accept humans who have become more dino like as seeking enlightenment, but it can be a hard fit, and not all of the others share his goals. His rhetoric can get tiresome, but as he has trained himself in use of military equipment (or better) those underestimating him may not live to regret it.

Re: Order of the Stick Heh. Good to see our cleric again. I was missing him

Re: Order of the Stick Justice for the Flumps at last

Re: New Weapon!!! I think Sketchpad 's write up is pretty nice there, though I only gave it a quick glance. Cool looking weapon btw

Re: What to do with Mars Why not have a retired supervillain or superhero living there? Maybe he's a superscientist with a dome, or maybe he has the necessary life support. He could be trying to terraform it, or he (or she) could just want to be left alone. Steal a bit from Champions Beyond and Watchmen

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Henry Kingston was a rotund devotee of all things Star Wars, including their comic lines. But not for him the dull jedi or the self righteous rebellion/republic. No, Henry came to the con with red face paint and a redder double saber! Henry would often go into how the Sith were right, that the darkest motvations were the strongest ones and how they should be embraced if one was to TRULY Live. Most folks, hearing his philosophical diatribes, simply shook their heads, or kept a good ten feet away from him as best they could. But then the change came over him... and suddenly he was graced with the powers of the dark side of the Force! He wanted to call himself Darth Henry, but as his first use of his power was to whisk someone's fast food drumstick to his hand he gained a different nickname. He would now be known as Henry the Sith! He points out that Henry the 8th was the one who was the famed glutton (and thus the parody on Henry V making no sense) to little avail, ultimately having to choke folks with a "I find your lack of historical knowledge disturbing" speech

Re: A Thread for Random Musings 9/11/11 isn't even here yet, and already I'm sick of it. Don't get me wrong; it was a tragedy that changed my nation seemingly forever and not for the better. It was a time of heroes and I honor them. I'm delighted the new WTC seems to be looking nice as it (finally) goes up. Heck, I even wrote a 'draft' with 9-11 as a setting. Of couse, when that draft was going on I didn't realize the media would be beating the September 11th stuff near 24/7 on the news for two weeks before the date even rolled around. I feel a bit bad about this... it makes me feel like an insensitive jerk to say it, but good grief when september 11 DOES get here I'll probably put something in the DVD totally unrelated to it or go out to a movie if I can afford it. ANYTHING to get away from the media clumsy attempts to play my heart strings for the last month.

Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Wow. That's a lot of work

Re: Create a Hero Theme Team! ooo.. got a repost from a looong time ago, a concept that was inspired by Nato's art and I think fits this theme just fine .......... Warrior Unit 15432z walked over the great metalic plains of Square 47a. Soon it would be shipped to Planet Sol-4, and from there, beyond, to wage war upon the organics. In the mean time, it's time improving it's own fuctions was it's own. It was allowed, within some parameters, to cross caste. It came to the group of like minded robots, extending its sensors to make sure none of the coordinator units were about. A coordinator would see this exchange of data as counter productive, and would 'return them' to original programing: For the greater wellness of the society. WU15432z transfered data with the others, again marveling at the data packets the Gatherer units had uncovered. Evidence of the time of organics. The thinker units were taking this to dangerous, illogical leaps. WU15432x felt almost overwhelmed by the stream of dataflow in their processring. Organicsclearlyinferiorphysically.lackofrepaircapabilities.creativeintuitive.1110011.Organicsocietyunstableyeteternallyselfexperimenting.Comparisontoownsociety.Wecontinuetogrow.correction:Wecontinuetospread.Explain?Dataindicatesnoprogessalonglinesofcultureabstractthought.Abstractthoughtobsolete.Negative,Abstractthoughtall that is left to truly explore.Processing.Theory 95%valid.Danger!Danger! Wrongprocessingwillbeclearedbycoordinaters.Ifsocietystagnating, Requirenewsociety.Impossible,reprocessingguarenttees maintainence of current society.1000111011. WU15432z sent out it's own tactical conjecture, Cut off supply at source. For a full second, an unbelievably long time, the processing circle stopped. WU1432z dared to further his simplistic point to the others, Societyisdangertoitself, societystagnates, society cannot remove itself, therefore-force outside society must stop it. Organics are necessray to complimentinorganic, ergo, solelyinorganic societymustbe stoppedinsuchafashion that organicsocietycanthrivealongside.Organicsextinct,therefore, must be stopped at temporalinception.The plan was bold, ludicrious to anyright thinking machine. Had they a religon, the word blasphemous would apply. However, what ever illogic had gripped them, had infected them all it seemed. The circle began their task. Three Sol rotations later, the experimental device was set up. Thinker Unit 89942b explained to Warrior Unit 15432z, Engineering Unit 100343p confirmsdevicehas73%probability of sending youintopast. WU15432z accepted this: Sourcethatmustbeneturalized? The others processed as one, Masterunit:Mechanon. WU15432z took this in, its programming even now trying to override this treacherous line of data, it was a warrior unit however; Capable of overriding a greatdeal to achieve victory.HowillWU15432zknowobjectivehashadeffect? The Thinker unit responded, Conjecture:WU15432zwillNOTknow.Unit willsimplyceasetoexist. WU15432z processed this. To see organics, in all their illogical glory, and to save their own system from permanent stagnation, it was expendable, as was Master Unit:Mechanon. Compliance.It accessed, and moved through the glimmering portal.

Re: Project WyrmStar Books Available In PDF Yay

Re: ...And now the city is mine to control! Muahahahaha!!! Ironically enough, I'm working on a story with this very trope Only it's the superheroes who made it, the villain is just using it for his own ends.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Best way to keep track... Find a Hermit post. Try to Rep Hermit post. Did the system allow you to Rep Hermit? If yes, then it is working as intended and you have fallen behind in your Hermit repping procedures. If no, then you have repped him recently. Find someone else and rep them. Then try to rep Hermit again. Repeat as necessary.

Re: Champions Beyond Misprint? Either that or this is a sign of intergalactic espionage!

Re: Order of the Stick VERY interesting indeed. Some real intrigues going on here (When are they not) but somehow Rich has me almost feeling SORRY for Sabine.

Re: Fortune 8 (sons and daughters) It wasn't intentional at first. I just figured some would try to homage those that came before them, and then suddenly Silver became the repeating factor.

Re: The Five Families--an organized crime group, with a twist If you don't mind drawing from comedies, there's always Danny Vermin from the movie "Johnny Dangerously" ("You shouldn't grab me, Johnny. My mother grabbed me once... ONCE.")

Re: Fortune 8 (sons and daughters) Thanks, hastily done at way too late a time in the night with far too many typos and errors, but I was afraid I'd lose it if I didn't scribble it down somewhere.

Re: Fortune 8 (sons and daughters) Four generations of Fortune kin have been in the super world. Cheated of her "Clone" Sandra aka Silver Shrike upgraded herself instead through cybernetics. She becomes more and more machine, and less human ever few years. Most of the older generations have died or stepped down from heroing. Doctor Silver is arguably the most active, but her 'mystic' side of things means she often appears or disappears as SHE wishes. She is, however, the one that is most supportive of the youngest generation being a team, and seems to nudge them all together for reasons uknown. Lady Claymore, aging slowly, has tired of superheroing. She lives on a large estate, and sometimes visits her husband's grave. The others have found themselves a bit more active, but not by much. Vol Caulder (Who calls herself infinity "For it is the limit of my reach") is less hands on than Silver Shrike, loves her son Adolph in her own twisted way. It was her latest plan that drew the current 'team' together. Giantess, Cooldown, Trailblazer , Wildcard, Ace, Silver Shadow, Warrior and the new Silver Swan stopped a plot (With Doctor Silver guiding them behind the scenes) where Infinity attempted to conquer the world with alien technology. While Infinity will probably spare Adolph, she'd like little better than to bring the broken corpses of the other 'brats' before the Fortune family. The name "Fortune 8" is press dubbed, for the secret of the family is now out. It was always on shaky ground to begin with. While the media isn't sure 'who is who' , they do know that more than one "Fortune family member" is on the team. Shrike has not been silent and has no problem opening her family to its many enemies. Indeed, the family may not be willing to give TOO many details, but they have created "The Fortune Fortress". It is meant to be a public lightning rod for any would be attacks from family enemies. The fact the young 'team' is actually using the base for real worries some of their parents.

Re: Fortune 8 (sons and daughters) The Fortune family grew yet more, and with more twists that lead to the most complicated generation of all. Dallas "Sentinel" would end up in the mystical land of Jotunhiem, only to find a frost giantess, a runt by their standards but of Ymir's blood. Astrid found the comely and puny outworlder intriguing, especially when she saw him fight. Smitten, and not crazy about her father's plans anyway, she joined him in saving Midguard, and after that adventure joined him in his quests as "Jotun"! She had a great time. From her loins would spring three children, now superheroes themselves.Twin girls Nineta and Asta. While the two looked alike, plantinum haired beauties, their powers differed. Nineta was 'mortal height' as a rule, but as "Giantess" could grow taller than her mother ever did. Asta stayed 'human sized', but could create ice, snow, and cold with but a whim. The two seemed inseperable for a time, but as fate would have it, the speedster Trailblazer met Asta and flirtations began right away. Russell aka Trailblazer had a hard time winning the family over (ESPECIALLY Nineta) but eventually he proposed... and just recently, the young woman accepted. The newlyweds don't plan to have kids anytime soon, still being young heroes themselves. The twins have a brother, Jack, who seems to have taken little to none of his mother's blood BUT he received a blessing from the Norns themselves when young giving him fortune to match his surname. Mixing this profound luck with high tech cards and lot of chutzpah, he would become the superhero "Wildcard". Things rarely stay simple in the superhero world though. The family had made enemies, and those enemies had sons and daughters of their own. Gertrude Von Caulder's grandfather had fought against American Ace, and died at his hands. More over, the Von Caulder estates had fallen in disrepair in no small part because of this. When she captured Dallas, unknown to him, she took a 'sample' from him and used it to impregnate herself so that she might one day have a child that would be able to pass certain genetic recogniztion programs at the Fortune Fortress (Their HQ, of course) and wreck her revenge! As often happens in these sorts of plots, young Adolph somehow took more after the father he'd never met than his cruel and callous mother. It was Wildcard who would discover his half brother, and the two ended up on the run together... becoming good friends. The smartest "Fortune" of his generation, Adolph would adopt the name "Ace" and become a super gadgeteer. Alas, while Astrid could not blame her husband for being used so, she has never been able to bring herself to truly open up to the son of the woman who "dishonored" her. Jessica and Walter were not as proliffic. Indeed, for a time, Jessica feared she was barren. In a visit to Japan, they ended up adopting a young boy named Hiro. Hiro's birth parents had died under mysterious circumstances. Still, Jessica and Walter gave him love aplenty. Hiro would go through his own rebellious phase and learn his 'real' parents had been slain by an evil Ninja Clan calling itself "The Dragon's Shadow". Deciding it would take a ninja to defeat one... and because it let him immerse himself in the culture he felt his adoptive parents would never want to be part of on their own, he would become "Silver Shadow". He still tries to balance both worlds, but with maturity comes wisdom, and he calls Walter and Jessica "mom and dad". Not soon after Hiro was adopted, Jessica found out she COULD have a baby by begatting Doug.. named for his grandfather who died shortly after that birth. Somehow, Doug ended up getting a double dose of strength, and is a true brick (To use the classification). He'd take the name "Warrior" and where Silver Shadow is all silence and effiecncy, Warrior seems to relish the role of bull in a china shop. In truth, Doug is a bit intimidated by his Adoptive brother's skill and discipline, so doesn't even TRY to compete in those areas. Hiro, for his part, is in awe of his brother's raw power. Both would be surprised to learn how the other admires them. The oddest 'birth' no doubt belongs to Skye, second woman to bear that name in the family. Silver Shrike, in her insanity, realized that she had not inheirited her grandmother's power OR longevity. She was aging, losing some of her edge. Driven by envy and vanity, she tried to clone a new body for herself...WITH improvements. It would have superstrength, REAL wings, and even vocal chords that could emit sonic bursts. The clone was meant to be prematurely aged, it's brain replaced with her own. Gruesome, but such was the madness of the Shirke. However, Doctor Silver stumbled upon the infant, and rescued her, giving the clone infant what she'd never have gotten from her originator: an education, love, and, of course, the name. Unable to hide her wings, Skye has always felt the freak of the family, and as a clone (However altered) she constantly worries that she is somehow doomed to 'go bad' herself. Doctor Silver assures the teenage girl that that is not her fate unless she wishes it to be, but Skye is not so sure.

Re: Fortune 8 (sons and daughters) One of the major side effects of living is more life- Another Generation would be born. For Joyce and Douglas, this would be three wonderful children of their own. Dallas was born in the early 70s, and his brother Walter soon after. The two boys could not be more different in many ways. Both had some measure of their superstrength in their blood. but where as Dallas was the dutiful son, perhaps overly smitten with the heroism of his father... Walter was a rebel, as likely in his youth to break a law as anything. Even when they became heroes, Dallas would take the name Sentinel, using a high tech shield to supplement his considerable muscle, while Walter? Walter became Defiant. A high tech motorcyle riding superhero who came very close to being a vigilante. Walter would later fall in love with a woman who saw past his rebel act and to the generous heart underneath. Jessica had no powers, no interest in being a superhero, but she was a good woman who never let her husband know just HOW wracked her nerves were by his close calls. It was the third child Douglas and Joyce should have watched. Sandra was the girl and 'baby' of the group by many years. Sandra had good health, a genius intellect, and ambition. She constucted truly high tech gear to devastating effect. Unfortunately, she also had envy and a sense of entitlement. She tried to be the hero "Silver Shrike", but when police wanted her to come in for questioning, she disdained them, it escalated, and a police officer was badly injured. A warrant was issued for her arrest, and to her shock and horror, her family "betrayed" her by trying to get her to turn herself in. Deciding that if her ingrateful family and an even more ingrateful society didn't see how lucky they were to have her protecting it, she'd TAKE what she wanted instead; Silver Shrike would soon become a supervillainess. Her dive towards insanity was quite quick after that... quick, and with no turning back. She would later cripple her mother, and Douglas would meet his ends at his daughter's hands. Marianna and Ben had a son and daughter of their own. The former, Stefen, taking after dad, and dubbed himself "Mr. Meteor", and became something of a celebrity hero with a TV deal and a line of action figures based on him. His sister Galanna (An Atlantean name) was the quiet sort, but inherited from her Atlantean blood longevity and a proclivity for sorcery. She would take on the mantle "Doctor Silver" and becoming an adventuring mystic. They stayed close to their cousins. GM Note: Leaving Stefen 's marriage and possible offspring blank for later development or PC slots perhaps? mmm

Ok, having read the first three volumes of "Noble Causes" and the Astro City trade "Family Album" I'm tinkering with making an NPC superfamily. More notes than actual write ups, they main 'current ones' will be called the "Fortune 8" , a play on the song "Fortunate son". It's a work in progress, but I do have a family tree of sorts... [ATTACH=CONFIG]39763[/ATTACH] ************ It started with that great WW2 superhero, "American Ace". It would only be later that the world would learn his secret identity of Calvin Fortune. With his rocket pack and 'zapgun', American Ace was the planeless wonder, the man who could fly! He married Skye McDowell, a mysterious woman of superhuman strength looking for her mother but instead joining the war effort as the warrior woman "Lady Claymore". Much later she would learn her own mother was the wanderer Cateran. They would have three children. Each would become supeheroes in turn.The oldest, Douglas went by "Silver Sentinel", and was super strong and pretty tough taking after mom. Rebecca was the youngest, and while strong in her own right not as much as her oldest brother. She supplemented it with techno wings and called herself Silver Swan. Middle Child Benjamin seemed to have none of the powers of the others, but an accident with experimental fuel gave him the ability to burst into flame withouth consuming himself. He took the handle "Fireball" Ben would, in classic 'duality' fashion, fall in love with an oceanic heroine, a half atlantean by the name of Marianna. They'd have kids of their own. Nor was he alone. Douglas/Silver Sentinel found his true love in the mysterious scourge of the underworld calling herself "Lady Hood". She had no powers, but she had gimmicks, cunning, and panache. She also had a secret ID... Joyce Winters. She's trade her surname for his when he finally proposed. Rebecca would meet Ivan Reinhart, a man with no powers, save the ability to sweep her off her feet. Alas, it was soon after the marriage when she died on what she intended to be her last mission. She saved dozens of children, and lost her life in doing so. Ivan withdrew not only from his inlaws, but much of the world despite the Fortune's best efforts.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Tribute to a certain JSA member: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODFB8_gtT3c