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    death tribble reacted to SKJAM! in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    Steel Maiden didn't start out with that name.  Originally, she was Victoria Excalibur, an agent for Her Majesty's government.  And quite a good one too.  Until she fell in love with one of her fellow agents, ignoring his nickname, "the Black Widower."  Things were going just fine until they were surrounded by Dr. Destroyer's minions, and she learned how he earned that name--by abandoning his lovers to die.
     
    Except that she didn't die, just lost an arm.  As it happened, Zerstoiten had nothing better to do that day, so he replaced her arm with an experimental prosthetic.  She no longer has it, as it was programmed to self-destruct should she ever cross Destroyer.  Her attempts to get revenge on Black Widower earned Steel Maiden the enmity of British law enforcement, also, more missing parts that were replaced by cybernetics (none ever quite as powerful as the first, but with less self-destruct sequences.)  She's now more than 80% metal and wires, replete with useful weapons.  Most of her money earned from the Magnificent Seven goes into maintenance.
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    death tribble reacted to freakboy6117 in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    William "Big Boy" Boyd
     
    William Boyd was born a record breaker the biggest birth weight on record.
     
    he continued to grow at an exaggerated rate. a giant relative to other kids his age. he was often ostracized by other kids and bullied because he couldn't fight back without hurting someone. Through out his school career treated like a big dumb brute but William was gifted with a world record IQ William would keep his mind a secret barely maintaining a passing grade in school while studying college level subjects at night.
     
    when he dropped out of school at 16 he got a fake ID and started working as a doorman. Normally his giant size and strength would be enough but one night he got in trouble when he went up against a drunk who actually knew how to fight beaten and bloody.
     
    he was rescued by his co worker a relativity petite woman who was a  semi professional MMA fighter. She suggested he take a few martial arts classes.
     
    William  found that he loved the martial arts the precision and mental discipline appealed to him greatly He also developed a love for the great tacticians Sun Tzu and the book of five rings to begin with then Von Clausewitz and modern tacticians..
     
    It was shortly after he got his first of several back belts that he was approached by a local gangster who wanted him as a bodyguard.
     
    The money was great and there where perks like girls and nice cloths that 19 year old William appreciated. William worked for his boss for a while but realized he was over reaching and left before his empire collapsed. William Moving to work for a bigger boss he kept noticing the same thing that the men he worked for where stupid brutal men who could barely plan.  William had become fed up with it and wanted to start working for him self and as luck would have it that is when he met Jack Nicholls.
     
    Together they put together the Seven  William is the mastermind making up the strategic plan Jack is the teams fixer he arranges things gets equipment and makes agreements and L.A. Lake is there tactical commander .
     
    William is a normal human slightly stronger than most due to his prodigious size.. he is often mistaken for a brick and acquired a force-field belt for this very reason as superheroes often assumed he could take more damage than he  can his knowledge of over a dozen martial arts and quick intellect make him a fearsome opponent but generally when operations he acts like a dumb brute, communicating his observations to his team mates using a system of code-words and hand signs he developed.
     
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    death tribble reacted to BoloOfEarth in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    From last night's adventure (Typhoid Dee) in my Champions game (Part One):
     
    Pre-game, Circe was jokingly complaining about last session's fight at her nightclub.
    Malarky:  (OOC) I thought we warned you -- if you tell (GM) that your character owns someplace, it's almost guaranteed there will be a fight there.
    GM:  Didn't you notice, when you gave me Circe's backstory, and it included the nightclub, and your condo's location, and your mom's place, that I chuckled a lot?
     
    FYI:  Circe's player provided a very detailed background that involved her grandmother Marie (herself a mentalist and a leader of a group known as the Sisterhood) making a deal with an unidentified "powerful mentalist" -- he and Marie's daughter Hanna would bear two children, one female and one male.  (One of the Sisterhood could manipulate things to ensure the gender of each child.)  Hanna would raise the girl, and the father would raise the boy.  However, after the first child (Circe, aka Ana) was born, Marie and Hanna refused to complete the deal by producing the male mentalist's heir.  Thanks to the Sisterhood, he didn't have much choice but to accept this and walk away.  Ana / Circe didn't necessarily know all of this info, though she was aware of the Sisterhood.  The background also mentioned that her grandmother died when Ana was about 8 years old.  And Circe's Complications included that she is Watched by her father (More Powerful).
     
    Cue the GM machinations.
     
    GM:  And speaking of your condo, we're going to start Circe, or rather Ana, off there, sleeping peacefully one night...
     
    She wakes up to find a man leaning against her bedroom door frame, smoking a cigarette.  He introduces himself as Joseph Ryan, her father (whom her mother had said died when Ana was an infant).  Ryan assures her he means her no harm, and says that Ana's mother (Hanna) and grandmother (Marie) kept him from seeing her.
     
    Ryan:  Even though your mother kept you from me, I kept tabs on you growing up, but I did miss out those things a dad gets to do, like watching his baby sleep.  So I hope you'll forgive me for watching you sleep just now.
    Circe:  (OOC)  The first thing I do?  Pull the covers all the way up to my neck.
     
    Circe tries using her Telepathy (invisible to mental) to read his mind.  Note that all of her mental powers are in a pair of multipowers, and all are bought with the Unified Power limitation.
     
    GM:  Two things.  First, you can tell that your Telepathy is greatly reduced in power.  In fact, all of your mental powers are down about 30 points, and you can feel them slowly but surely getting weaker.  Secondly, when you try to read his mind, you get nothing.  He's like a psionic void.
    Circe:  This is not good!
     
    Ryan, by the way, is the psionic assassin Krait from Blackwyrm Games' rather excellent Algernon Files.
     
    Ryan:  I also never got to tell you bedtime stories growing up, so please indulge me while I tell you one now.  Long ago, there was an evil queen, Queen Marie, who was also secretly a witch, leader of a coven of witches known as the Sisterhood.  Queen Marie made a deal with young, handsome Prince Joseph (bows slightly), offering a few nights' time with her beautiful daughter, Princess Hanna, with the goal of producing two heirs.  The daughter would be raised by Queen Marie and Princess Hanna, and then a son would be born and raised by Prince Joseph.  However, after the lovely Princess Ana was born, Queen Marie told Prince Joseph that she and Hanna weren't going to honor the rest of the deal.  Since Prince Joseph was still young and not as skilled as he would one day become, and the evil queen had the backing of her coven of witches, there was nothing he could do but walk away.  But Prince Joseph trained, honing his skills and powers, and one day he returned.  He snuck into the castle late one night and slew the evil Queen Marie in her bed. 
    Circe:  But... why?
    Ryan:  Because she reneged on their deal.  It was... unprofessional.
    GM:  (OOC)  He says that as if being unprofessional is a worse crime than clubbing kittens, maybe even worse than murdering infants.
     
    After he finished his twisted bedtime story, he tells Ana that he now plans to murder her mother Hanna for her part in backing out of the deal, and that he felt she should know the full truth of how she came to be. 
     
    Ryan:  I don't want to be one of those parents who puts his child into the middle of things, so you may feel free to tell your mother that I stopped by, and of course my plans for her.  All I ask is that you stay out of things and let your mother and I settle our dispute ourselves.  I would hate for you to get hurt in the crossfire.
     
    - - - - - -
     
    I then backtracked to just after the team's fight against Road Kill.  Last session, the heroes discovered that Road Kill's new songs were somehow summoning Cthulhu-esqe horrors.
     
    GM:  So, last time you guys destroyed the Flying Polyp and captured the members of Road Kill.
    Honey Badger:  And I got an autographed guitar!
    GM:  Yes, you did.  However, how are you going to keep Road Kill from just playing these songs later and summoning more of those things?
    Malarky:  The lyrics were basically incantations for a spell.  If we can get them to change the wording, the spell won't work.  (Note that Malarky is a fledgling mage.)
    Circe:  (to Nexus, aka Isabelle, a musician)  Does Izzy write her own music?
    Nexus:  Yes.
    Circe: So she and Malarky can work together come up with new lyrics for the songs, and I'll use my cumulative Mind Control to put them into Heavy Metal's mind and make him think they were his idea.
    Honey Badger:  Can you make them a limerick?
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    death tribble reacted to Ragitsu in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    "They say you can choose your underwear, but you can't choose your family."
    "I thought that was friends."
    "What was?"
    "What you can choose. You can choose your friends but not your family."
    "That....makes sense. I think underwear works too. Underwear and friends."
    "Uh huh."
    "But not your friends' underwear. Choosing that would just be too awkward."
    "You mean kind of like thi-."
    "THEN AGAIN, if we're talking about friends with benefits, that's a different story. Maybe not. Boundaries could still vary from person to person, y'know?"
    "Remind me to pack a Game Boy next time..."
     
    Gotta love IC banter that isn't centered around dice rolls.
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    death tribble reacted to procyon in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    Our Champions game has my wife, two sons and two daughters as players.
    From our last game.
     
    Players are listening to a battle in a nearby room as they get ready. 
    The soldier/guard in the other room is blazing away at the big bad guy, followed by a loud crashing noise and then silence.
     
    Older son looks at the rest of the groups and says, "Don't worry, he's just reloading."
     
    Took five minutes for everyone to quit laughing so we could get back to the game.
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    death tribble reacted to BoloOfEarth in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    Part Three of Typhoid Dee:
     
    The CDC says that they need Pigeon (as Patient Zero) to better concoct a cure to the disease.  With their police connections, the heroes learn that Pigeon is a girl named Diane Carvey with a juvie record, but nothing they find can help them locate where she might be now. 
    Pops:  We could dress up as old men, go to the park, and throw bread crumbs on the ground.  She's bound to show up.
     
    They also learn that Pigeon is part of a group of freaks / society rejects known as Vermin, whose other members are Cockroach, Flea, Mink, Gopher, Weasel, and Willard (who can summon a rat pack). 
     
    Honey Badger:  They may be named Vermin, but I'm calling them "lunch."
     
    After learning that witnesses had overheard Pigeon tell Wight he's a "freak like us" and tried to get him to join Vermin, Circe heads to PRIMUS to see if Wight knows where Pigeon might be holed up.
     
    GM:  Are you going to tell PRIMUS you want to read his mind?
    Circe:  No.  I speak Russian.  I'm just telling them that I want to talk to him.
    GM:  Okay, they'll let you talk to him over the intercom, while he's still in the cell.
    Circe:  Can I see him?
    Nexus:  They should have a camera on him in the cell.
    GM:  Sure, but Circe's powers won't work over a video feed.  She needs direct line of sight.
    Circe:  I could use Mind Scan to lock on...
    GM:  You want to scan the PRIMUS base to lock onto a prisoner in a super-cell?  Think it through.
    Circe:  ... yeah, probably not a good idea.
     
    After Circe points out that Wight's sickness can also be cured if they capture Pigeon, the Russian relents and gives them a location:  a deserted factory on the south side.  With building blueprints, a bunch of police and PRIMUS agents as backup, and a combination of Circe's Mind Scan and Shadowboxer's Shadow Sight (Clairsentience) to pin down the specific locations of the members of Vermin, the heroes are ready to go in.  Since Weasel (a mentalist) and Flea (a shrinker) are both in the same room, the heroes decide they are the first targets.
     
    Circe:  (herself a mentalist)  We need to take out Weasel first.  Because mentalists are sooo evil.
     
    Malarky:  Before we go in, do you want me to cast a spell on all of you?
    Honey Badger:  Are we all gonna become frogs?
     
    Gopher is actually about six meters underground, in a burrow he dug out along with a network of tunnels under the factory.  Shadowboxer uses his Shadow Sight to see what the gadgeteer is up to.
     
    GM:  He's working on some device, you're not sure what, while humming.
    Shadowboxer:  What song?
    GM:  (Hums a tune, but the player doesn't catch it).  At one point, he actually quietly sings, "When Captain Gopher throws his mighty shield..."  And yes, there's a small round shield lying next to him.
     
    While most of the heroes take down Flea and Weasel, and Shadowboxer takes on Gopher, Maker (remote-piloting a captured VIPER flyer bot since she's still in quarantine) smashes through a skylight and fires a missile at Pigeon.  It's a 1 1/2d6 Penetrating RKA with +1 STUN Mod, and she rolls badly:  3 BODY and 12 STUN.
     
    Maker:  Useless.
    However, Pigeon's armor fails the Activation roll, so she takes the full damage.
    Shadowboxer:  (OOC)  It's actually a good thing you rolled so low.  We wouldn't want to bring a corpse back to the CDC.
     
    Seeing the drone attack and hearing the sound of combat from the room where Flea and Weasel were, Mink leaps into action.
    GM:  She runs to the fire door, shoves it open, and runs outside.
    Nexus:  Really?  She's running away?
    GM:  Yeah.  Mink is definitely a "me first" kinda person.
     
    The injured and pissed-off Pigeon flies up to try ripping the flyer bot apart with her claws.  She also rolls incredibly low, getting no damage past the bot's defenses.
     
    GM:  That nice new paint job you gave it, though - she scratched that all up.
    Pops:  We're painting our whole base with that stuff.  I mean, look how well it protected the drone...
     
    Upset at the drone attacking Pigeon, Willard summons a rat pack and sends it up into the rafters to drop onto the drone, blinding it's cameras.  But with the shrinker and mentalist down, Honey Badger runs into the factory proper and jumps up to grab Pigeon.
     
    Honey Badger:  Do any of the rats come along for the ride?  If so, I'll munch on them while I'm squeezing Pigeon.
     
    Because of the surprise attack taking down three Vermin so quickly, the heroes soon defeat the rest of them...
    GM:  Well, Mink got away.
    Pops:  Wait, didn't we have police and PRIMUS out there?
    GM:  Oh, yeah.  Forgot about them.
    Pops:  But she's a martial artist, so she probably has a high DCV.
    Shadowboxer:  Which won't help much against stun grenades.
    GM:  So, all of Vermin were captured...
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    death tribble reacted to BoloOfEarth in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    Part Two of Typhoid Dee:
     
    Maker's background was that she got her powers as an astronaut aboard UNTIL's Gateway space station after exposure to a solar flare or cosmic radiation or something similar.  However, her powers were initially out of control, causing a major problem on the station that left at least one fellow astronaut apparently dead but, in the standard comic trope "nobody could have possibly survived that" which means that of course he survived it, and is now her nemesis.  Her character sheet included Hunted:  TBD (same origin), giving me free rein to name and create the Hunted.
     
    I ran her through a quick prequel scene detailing the incident above, with Russian cosmonaut Andrei Vyelov's spacesuit getting holed and him spiraling out of control into an atmospheric reentry while UNTIL was too busy trying to keep Gateway from suffering a similar fate.
     
    Back to the present, Maker (aka Li Jenkins) is running late to her regular weekly lunch with her overbearing Chinese mother.  As Li is in the taxi enroute to Boston's Chinatown area, she phones mom (Dr. Hu Cheng) to let her know she's on her way.  In the middle of the conversation, there is screaming and then the call is cut off.  She tries calling back without success.
     
    Maker:  How long is it going to take the cab to get there?
    GM:  About ten minutes.  Maybe five if you have one of those cab drivers who considers traffic laws as mere suggestions.
    Maker:  Can I fly there faster?
    GM:  You have a slot in your Multipower that lets you fly pretty fast.  So yeah.  You can get there in about a minute.
    Maker:  I tell the cabbie to stop, throw some money at him, get out, duck into an alley.  Turn on my cloak field and fly to Chinatown.
    GM:  Are you doing anything else? 
    Maker:  Call the others and let them know somethings going on.
    GM:  (to other players)  Is anybody else going there?
    Shadowboxer (whose secret ID is a PI who also drives a cab to make ends meet):  Well, my last customer just threw money at me and jumped out of the cab, so I'm free to head there!
     
    Maker arrives to find a badly scarred man holding her (unconscious) mother, and arguing with some black teen girl with wings.  Another man is lying unconscious at the scarred man's feet.  (He's a good Samaritan who unsuccessfully tried to stop the scarred man from grabbing Dr. Cheng.)
    GM:  The guy holding your mom looks like someone tried to light his cigarette with a flamethrower.  Any skin showing is covered with really nasty burn scars.
    Honey Badger:  (sarcastically)  Gee, I wonder who that could be?
    Maker (with "clueless" field fully engaged):  I don't know, but I'm getting my mom away from him.
     
    The scarred man shoves the winged girl away from him as Maker closes in.
    GM:  You notice that the winged girl has what looks like a cloud of airborne dust particles around her.  When his hand touches her, you see all the dust particles light up briefly.  Also, she appears to get a bit weaker, and his scars heal up a bit.
    Maker:  Crap.  I radio the others:  Don't touch him!
     
    The winged girl (Pigeon) flips the scarred man off and begins flying away as Pops teleports Honey Badger to Chinatown, while Maker does a move-by grab on her mother, then flies her to safety. 
     
    Pops:  I normally bring the slowest person first, but I start with Honey Badger because I know I can leave him there safely while I get the others.
     
    Honey Badger runs up and punches the scarred man (Sushchestvo, aka Wight), knocking him back into some bystanders trying to run away from the scene.  Since Honey Badger has pretty hefty Power Defense, Wight's damage shield Drain doesn't do much, but it does reduce HB's strength enough to make him lose a die of damage. 
     
    Honey Badger:  Does he say anything?
    GM:  He's shouting in what sounds like Russian.
    Maker:  I speak Russian.  What is he saying?
    GM:  He's using some rather inventive cursing.  Something about Honey Badger's mother's sexual proclivities. 
     
    Wight responds to this attack by grabbing the woman next to him and stealing most of her life energy.
     
    Honey Badger:  Is there a mailbox, or a lightpole, or something like that I can use as a weapon?
    Malarky:  It's a restaurant with outdoor seating.  Tons of stuff to grab.
    GM:  Yep, tables, chairs, big ol' umbrellas...
    Honey Badger.  Umbrellas.  Perfect.  I grab one.
    Maker:  You're going to pound him with that?
    Honey Badger:  I'm gonna shove the umbrella up his a** and open it!
     
    Pops teleports Malarky in, who hits Wight with his "Wee Bit Pissed" spell.
     
    Malarky:  That should make him drunk.
    Pops:  He's Russian.  Probably immune to alcohol.
    GM:  If it was vodka, maybe.  But Malarky uses Red Bull in his spell, so it still affects him.
     
    Nexus arrives with Circe, and notices two guys on the other side of the street who are looking in her direction.
     
    Honey Badger:  Wonder why they're looking at you guys, instead of watching the fight.
    Circe:  Maybe because we're hot!
     
    As more heroes arrive, the tide swiftly turns against Wight.  Honey Badger rips the cloth off the umbrella to wrap up Wight, then begins squeezing him to keep him unconscious.  Meanwhile,  an older Chinese lady, comes running out of the restaurant.
     
    Chinese lady:  Hey!!!  You break, you buy!
    Honey Badger:  (turns to Circe, who is wealthy)  A little help here?  I need an umbrella.
    An innocent bystander hears this and hands HB a small retractable umbrella.
    Honey Badger:  I say thanks, stick it in the ass, and open it.
    Maker:  Of the Chinese lady?!?!
    Honey Badger:  (incredulously) Noooooooo.  Of the bad guy.
     
    The heroes are discussing what they're going to do with the Russian, who Maker now recognizes as Andrei Vyelov.
     
    Honey Badger:  (to Pops)  Can you teleport him back to Russia?
    Circe:  Do you really want to turn him over to the Russians?
    Honey Badger:  Why don't we put him in bed with Putin?
    Malarky:  I can make 'em both a Wee Bit Pissed...
     
    The heroes reluctantly turn their foe over to PRIMUS, while Maker changes back to secret ID and takes her mother home to recover.
     
    GM:  The Return Rate is per 5 minutes, so it'll take about an hour for all the stats he Drained to return.  Even after that, though, your mom is still not feeling great. 
    Maker:  I call my dad and explain to him what happened.  Let him know Mom's not feeling good, and to keep an eye on her.
     
    After Mr. Jenkins also begins feeling unwell the next day, it becomes apparent something is going on.  The heroes learn that the woman Wight touched last is also sick, as are a few people in Honey Badger's apartment building. 
     
    Maker:  I touched my mom.  Am I feeling sick?
    GM:  You have a slight headache.  That's about it.
    Maker:  Wonder why I'm immune?
    GM:  You're not.  You have 5 points of Power Defense, and it's a 1d6 Drain.  It's only getting a little bit through every now and then.
    Honey Badger:  That's why it's not affecting me at all.  I have 15 points.
    GM:  You also have Life Support:  Immune to Disease.  That might help, too.
     
    The CDC quarantines everybody affected at the restaurant (including Maker, in secret ID).  The heroes think the disease came from Wight, but are surprised to learn that he is also sick.  Honey Badger researches Pigeon and learns that she does have some sort of mild toxic aura around her, but it just causes minor respiratory problems that clear up shortly after you move away from her.
     
    GM:  Odd thing, the guy that tried to stop Wight from taking Maker's mom recovered all his lost characteristics and isn't sick at all.
    Nexus:  Why's he immune?  He was touched by Wight as well.
    Malarky:  (light bulb goes off)  Because he was affected before the Russian touched Pigeon. 
    Shadowboxer:  When he touched Pigeon, his damage shield must have somehow mutated her disease and made it deadlier.
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    death tribble got a reaction from Pariah in What Are You Listening To Right Now?   
    Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
     
    God Only Knows is bliss.
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    Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
     
    God Only Knows is bliss.
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    death tribble got a reaction from Burrito Boy in Musings on Random Musings   
    Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven can be appreciated as different takes on the same story. Not everyone will have seen Seven Samurai but may be aware of it.
    However when something is really good you should not try and remake it cf The Posideon Adventure. This is the path to the dark side. They may even attempt to remake The Twilight Saga......
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    death tribble got a reaction from BoloOfEarth in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    There is always one guy like that. You know the one. He has the looks and thinks he can get away with anything. He can charm the bird out of the trees and stop the guys from hitting him by talking to them. He'll hit on your girl while you are on a date with her. He'll steal your drink. He'll steal your car but only for a joyride. Jack Nicholls is such a guy. And when a guy like this gets superpowers it can only end in trouble. Jack is a brick but he is not as strong as Mike. But he can fly.
    Jack has really got under the skin of practically every singe law enforcement unit in the States. He knocked off the wife, the daughter and the sister of his opponents for example. And is it really his fault if he humiliates his foes ? (Yes)
    The police have tried all sorts of things to get him including implying that he sold out the rest of the team (this was the FBI but they deny it empahatically. Too emphatically).
    Trouble is Jack has conections. People know him. He makes friends easily. Jack knew the guy Michael was in prison with. And was one of the first members.
    Jack carries a pair of six shooters as a nod to the film but he can use them. He usually does this to shoot guns out of people's hands. He did that when a couple of guys tried to shoot Michael. Not Jack's fault that they were cops connected to the case that got Mike in trouble in the first place. Now he's on their list as well. Oh well. It is a good job he's so good looking and can get any woman he wants but please no handcuffs.
    His nom de guerre is Vin Tanner. That was Steve McQueen's name in the film btw.
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    death tribble reacted to freakboy6117 in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    4X4 the 
     
    4X4 is the newest recruit fro the Crazy 8's and has only been with the latest incarnation of the team
     
    4X4 is the alias of Nelik Xavier Chetyre The youngest son of a Russian oligarch and his gorgeous Estonian wife born into wealth an privilege he lived a pampered life But Nelik was a trouble maker and thrill seeker.
     
    He was kicked out of one exclusive school after another for dangerous stunts climbing the ramparts stealing tests or sedcuing female staff. Eventually at 18 Nelik dropped out of University and took his trust fund and disappeared travelling the world learning parkour and urban exploration paris, Escrima in the philippines  spent several months fighting in an illegal fight circuit in bangkok. he also participated in every extreme sport imaginable .
     
    While participating the Famous Dakar rally in South America his teams custom offroader fell victim to a sudden rock slide Nelik was thrown clear and when he regained consciousness he found him self trapped in a deep cave exposed by the land slide unable to climb the steep sides of the crevice he had fallen into and with a  severely broken leg Nelik forced him self to crawl through the cave system to search for a way out. After what seemed like days but could have been merely hours, Dehydrated exhausted and delirious from the pain of his broken leg
     
    Nelik found him self in a cavern that seemed to be a temple pictograms of a style unlike any he was familiar with where carved into every surface of the the living rock. at the very center of the cavern was a huge Geode split in half and filled with water the crystals within glowing faintly illuminating this lost place. Nelik crawled to the geode alter and drank hungrily and that's when he heard the voices  they where in his head and also all around him speaking in a language he didn't know but could understand as if it was his mother tongue.
     
    "it has been a long time since anyone has completed the trials we deem you worthy warrior" and with that Nelik passed out he was found an unknown time later wandering the jungle by a search team that had rescued his team mates. 
     
    Nelik just assumed the cave had been a dream from concussion and pain after all his leg wasn't broken when they found him actual the doctors had been amazed what good shape he was in no dehydration starvation or other symptoms of exposure other than the confusion he was in absolutely perfect health.
     
    Fed up with the jungle and more than a little disturbed by the vivid dreams he was still experiencing about the caves,  he headed to moscow to drown out the whole incident he was drinking in one of his favorite clubs but no matter how hard he drank he could barely get a buzz when a cute girl started giving him the eye. Of course it turned out she was some crazy Bratva thug's woman and he pulled a knife on Nelik the knife ruined a nice silk shirt but didn't even scratch Nelik's skin and when he pushed the thug away he flew 30 feet across the club and smashed a huge mirror . shocked by the events Nelik fled the club and spent the next few days experimenting with his new abilities.
     
    4X4 is a mid level brick not hugely strong but with skin that can turn aside bullets he has also retained his natural agility and speed making him something of a surprise to heroes who expect a straight up brick fight 4x4 will use Parkour to come from unexpected angles martial arts and even guns to give him self an edge against a stronger foe.
    Nelik is also very much against type for a brick while he is in superb shape he has much more of a surfer or climbers physique than that of a body builder or worlds strongest man contestant like many bricks
     
    4X4 is a skilled driver and pilot and often operates as the Teams getaway driver.
     
    he has also performed some seemingly insane stunts as part of operations such as wing suiting through a 60 story window while the rest of the team set up a diversion at street level robbing jewelry store in the opposite building.. just to acquire some blue prints for a client.
     
    Nelik is a thrill seeker and dare devil with a seeming death wish he is not truly happy unless he is throwing himself out of a plane or hurtling down a mountain since getting his powers he has been forced to go to even further extremes the main reason he is on the team is that its the best way for him to get a real thrill and challenge now that he has powers.
     
    He completes team 8 leaving a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 to complete all the teams
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    Michael " Mack the knife" Mackenzie
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    was a successful circus performer an expert knife thrower until he ended up in a bar-fight in a small town somewhere down south.
     
    Some drunken moron drew a gun and Mack had drawn and thrown one of his knives before he even consciously registered the threat. The gun totting yokel went down with a knife in his throat and Mack went to jail. Where he discovered said yokel was the nephew of the local sheriff, grand son of the local judge and good friend of everyone on the jury that indicted him for murder.
     
    Mack went to a supermax prison. He was willing to just bide his time and try to appeal the case somewhere he wouldn't be railroaded by friends of the man he killed. that was until he stepped in to protect this skinny little rube who was about to get shived in the lunch room one we thrown spoon followed by a running tackle and the rube was looking to Mack as his bodyguard.
     
    On the plus side turned out the little guy had juice. Mack started getting the best of life in prison and the little guy turned out to be connected with some serious guys on the outside he was their fixer and money launderer and for his help he invited mack along when he got busted out. when he got out the fixer helped him get set up as a Super-villain with a collection of trick throwing knives and a reputation as a honest and honorable criminal Mack had worked with several other members when they got the idea to start the Seven and he was a first pick.
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    L. A. Lake is a man who once had it all but lost it due to an affair with a woman. Now wanted, he makes a living at being the best armed tactician in the room. This has earned him a heavy turnout from police forces anywhere he works.
     
    The Lancer has earned his reputation for escapes from high risk crimes.
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    (Maybe I'm taking "cow-boy" in a different direction than DT intended...)
     
    Mike "Oxbow" Bowers is the team's brick and likes to say he's "stronger than a dozen ox and twice as tough."  Since his mutation includes thick hair all over his body and horns curving up from the sides of his head, Oxbow has had to deal with more than his share of teasing and prejudice throughout his life, which has given him a rather short fuse.  Unfortunately, that short fuse led to a bar brawl that left an off-duty sheriff's deputy crippled for life.  Rather than go to prison, Oxbow ran off.  Since his horns, hair and general big-ness makes Oxbow rather conspicuous, he turned to crime to make ends meet, and eventually ended up in the Magnificent Seven.
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