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Fireleaper

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  • Birthday 02/11/1984

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    Just your average guy, who watches the world go by
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  1. Hi everyone I am currently running a mystically oriented game. I am having three problems with it at the moment. 1: I am starting to run out of plot ideas that I can toss off the top of my head. 2: I am having difficulty deciding on a major opponent for my group. 3: I am getting a bit disheartened in that I am not quite getting combats/encounters interesting enough. I am mainly looking for some advice/plot idea's. The original point level for the game was 350 points, but build the characters as if they were 250 point heroes. They have earned about 50XP at the moment I am attaching a copy of the preamble for the game so people can look over it if they want to.
  2. Re: The SUPER Act Is there a problem with the constitution and this form of regulatory act? The vigilante activity can be put under the good Samaritan laws (the same ones that allow security guards to do their job). After all if Grond is tearing up the neighborhood and the police can't help, why punish the individual who can? This I agree on principle, if the child's powers are a clear danger to them and the people around them then they should be treated with care. The problem would then be to define what is a clear danger to them and others around them. I agree with how the champions universe and how they register superhumans, in that it is voluntary.
  3. Re: A good character addition to a team, or just too 'wierd' for a team? Just out of curiosity what prevents the assimilation power from doing damage?
  4. Re: Regenerating Touch Just my 2cents. If you read the full passage on purchasing a damage shield it says that you cannot buy damage shield for non-attack powers without the GM's permission. I respect how hero designer has made things easier, but I find it annoying that people say you can't do something because the program says so.
  5. Re: Turning a ranged attack into a summon? Off the top of my head purchase trigger as a naked advantage for your summon. For example: Summon: 250 point summon, any creature +1, friendly +1/4, (112active) Gestures -1/4, Incantations -1/4 Trigger: summon when using missile deflection, resets automatically after it activates for up to 112 active points of summon (84 active) Gestures -1/4, Incantations -1/4 Missile deflection: can deflect any ranged attack, can deflect attack at anyone (50 active) Gestures -1/4, Incantations -1/4 as it stands you can only control one summon at a time but you can improve on that in time.
  6. Re: The Unbalancer At one point I had come up with a character who was essentially living battle armor (In champions). The character gave a its wearer a handful of lifesupport, 10 points PD/ED armor, Enhanced Perception, and Bonus Strength, could also use its wings to improve the wearers running speed. The problem is that the character was at best able to take on low powered henchmen by himself but he needed to assist someone else to take out the big guys, at which point assisting the martial artist we forced Viperia to a standstill. End result the character had difficulty doing things by himself but if he was assisting someone else that person way exceeded the campaign limits.
  7. Re: Shadows into Light Episode 4: 7 Bottles of blood on the wall The episode starts with seven files landing on the marshals desk. The seven victims: Loisa Evelani: Housewife, married 3 kids. Husband is a mechanic came home from the pub to find victim on the floor, dialing 911. No sign of forced entry. Italian background, 5'5”, black hair, dark eyes Georgia Bandanberken: Business woman, single, last seen working late to connect with Australia. Found in office, phone was not in use. No sign of forced entry. Hispanic background, 6', Gold eyes, fair hair Adrian Andal: Student, single. Found in City College Library stacks by early morning maintenance staff. Stacks are open overnight on weeknights. 5'9”, blue eyes, brown hair. Edvard Hauptmann: Backpacker tourist, German, single. Found in room at backpacker hostel when called for breakfast. No sign of forced entry. 5'11”, Brown eyes, black hair. Simone laPlace: Receptionist, divorced, 2 children, non-custodial. Found when ex-husband brought children around for supervised visit. No sign of forced entry. 5'3”, Green eyes, brown hair. Yevgeni Maturokovitch: Cafe owner, The Tsar of Coffee. Married, eight children. Last seen closing up cafe by wife. No sign of forced entry. Found by wife next morning. Russian background, 6'4”, Brown eyes, black hair. Morgan “Spikes” Buettoni: Bouncer, probable “Made Man” in Castrovia crime organization. Found in Frank's Truck Stop parking lot, silenced 9mm Sig-Sauer p228 pistol, emptied, nearby. Italian background, 6', Black hair, black eyes. Using forensic skills the Marshal eventually realizes that each victim died to a vampire. But there were some peculiarities with the victims. Nightwalker made contact with the Marshal to see if he could help him gain certain ingredients, finding out that making orichalcum is a lost art in the champions universe, and that if he started producing the stuff some organizations would be interested. The Marshal recieved a call for assistance from an officer at Big Tonies Donut Shop, when he arrived on scene there was carnage and in the centre of it was a vampire with all the blood drained out of it. At this point the God that the Stranger is becoming awoke, this mainly caused the Stranger to have difficulty leaving a crowd which caused a few funny moments. The investigation continued as the Marshal was able to get Nightwalker professionaly involved. He found that the blood of the victims noted above had been alchematized into a compound that not only attracted vampires but then caused all vampiric blood cells to tear themselves to pieces. The Stranger then came accross another vampire who was tearing up a crowd in its death throws at St Joakams School for the Criminally Insane. He decidedly put it out of its misery, then called in the Marshal and Nightwalker. Using the samples collected Nightwalker was able to call up a spirit to locate the largest supply of the alchematizing agent in the city. The spirit led them to Saint Maribelle of Hope Clinic. The circle then prepared to for a fight including the Marshal swapping places with a fire elemental. They then discuss the best way to proceed when the fire elemental blows in the glass frontage of the clinic, causing some damage to the people inside the clinic from the half melted glass that flew in. The blink, and then confront the doctor who was making the alchematizing compound. End result the doctor will be standing on trial for Negligent Homicide and a search will be conducted for 5 more vampires who will go on a rampage. overall it was a fun session. Next Episode: Dear Mr Superhero
  8. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From my council of shadows game last night. Nightwalker asked the marshal how he would get certain ingredients, the marshal realized he was asking for the material that "supposedly" made orichalcum. Marshal: You do realize that no-one knows how to make that any more? Nightwalker: You don't know how to make orichalcum!!! there is a reason why this is an ass ended universe. Nightwalker: so discounting my sword how much orichalcum was in the world? Marshal: You about doubled it. As the game was wrapping up Nightwalker: well I think we found the most violent member in the group, I'm only a casual killer.
  9. Re: Shadows into Light Some of the PC's were thinking of ways to get the building "legally" demolished. Should I mention to the PC's that this could make a place of power which is no longer? I'm sure the Elder Gods could make use of that link or is that thinking too twisted? Anyway next episode is 7 Bottles of blood on the wall
  10. Re: Shadows into Light Episode 3 of Shadows into light: To Rescue Art. The Master of their circle gives them a task. In a museum there is an amulet that they need to acquire. The amulet was hidden by a proxy, and it only became identifiable while its powers were active. It could do three things. If a man wore it during the full moon then he would become a beast. If a beast wore it during the full moon then he would be a beast no more. If a woman wore it during the full moon then she would be blessed with a child that was beast and man and could choose to walk as both. Just one slight problem, A small team of DEMON Cultists were attempting to steal it as well. The group also recognized that there was a problem with the building that the museum was in. It was 11 stories tall, each of the rooms had 1 pillar in the center, 2 plaques on the walls, 3 mirrors, 5 walls and 7 doors, of the 13 rooms on each floor 12 of them were real. Also it seemed to attract people who read fairly well of the Cthulhu Mythos. The showdown happened the DEMON Cult was defeated and they acquired the artifact. A nice simple episode but what should they do with about the building?
  11. Re: Shadows into Light Session 2 of A Shadow over Millenium city. (Last Fortnight) Nightwalker who had been away doing a task for the master of the outer circle came back. The PC's managed to find The Martial artists brother and they had a fight during which he managed to collect samples of his brothers blood and sweat. They then had finished processing for various passports and stuff (It can be quite amusing when the PC's realize that they forgot to purchase stuff like passports.) Then for the trip to china to acquire the twig from the center of a bamboo grove. No real problem there, quite a bit of roleplaying. Nightwalker then called a spirit to assist the rest of the team to get back to the plane while he took a shortcut through the teams base. This meant that he did not see what his spirit did. One of the powers his spirits are able to do is to assist movement, but the peculiarity of how he bought the power combined with how often a spirit acts meant that the spirit was able to repeatedly use this power on the teams vehicle. We decided that 2 times the speed of sound was fast enough to get where they needed. Now when you consider that this spirit took the form of an avalanche you have a surreal scene of a car being carried by an avalanche at twice the speed of sound across China. They returned to the gate in the set time, and the entity was able to go home.
  12. Re: Shadows into Light Session 1 of episode two: A shadow over Millenium City. It was an overcast day when the stranger sensed something wrong in millenium city. Upon investigating he found that a person who was recovering from a spiritual "attack" that the victim was unaware of. Using his abilities he uncovered that several people in the building had been attacked. Eventually they decided to inquire at the most recent victims home. This involved our local Chinese shapeshifting psychic dragon sneaking in while the monk was passing on "condolences" from the mans workmates. after a bit of fun involving a todler and a broom she managed to get a look at the most recent victim who appeared deathly ill. Whatever it was had taken a huge bite but had left already. The next day the Marshals car was having difficulty - and the mechanic was unable to work out why. (as a side note the care has a spirit bound into it). taking the car to the monk to see if the monk could do anything for the spirit they manage to get the car working again. The next day the monk (who has no ability to sense supernatural stuff) starts feeling ill. They contact the stranger so he can have a look and find that there is a spiritual entity that is feeding on him. After a bit of a fight it starts talking and the group finds out that it came to this world by accident and it is only feeding on people becuse its normal "food" is only located there. It has for the past bit managed to get closer to a portal that it thinks is able to get it home. The group confront the magician who own the portal, who requests a favor from the marshal in exchange for the use of the portal. They then talk to the Daemon that guards the portal and requests two things from the monk (who is currently "hosting" the entity). First for a guide to the creatures home he must go to a monestary in china and collect a twig from the centre tree in a bamboo grove. Second for use of the gate he must collect something from his brother. So in one session I have the person who upholds the law owing a favor to a magician and a buddist monk entered into two deals with a daemon.
  13. Re: Not Unique Avatar: would be in a very bizarre world as he was created to find out why there was a second sun in the L2 position between earth and moon for about two minutes. So there would be two options A: he finds himself in a world filled with flaming avatars of the sun (what he initially was) or b: finds himself in a world filled with radiant avatars. The former he would be in trouble as it would be like a bunch of children having an adult for the first time, the latter he would just be able to talk to some of them and they would all just discuss things with the music of the spheres and work out a way to send him home.
  14. Re: Shadows into Light And last night episode 1 ended. The bad guys were soundly defeated, the sacrificial victim saved and Nightwalker accepted the invitation to join the council of shadows. Some points of interest: When they attacked the evil wizards base they found that he had placed enchanted mirrors around his base. These mirrors had two functions; first to detect intruders (using a power based on no sense group special effect is it "revealed" the intruder even if they were invisible), second any energy directed at the mirror would be "bounced" onto a desired target (done as missile reflection). of course if the mirror "missed" on its deflect roll then the energy blast would hit the mirror instead. The Marshall had turned into his air elemental form to act as a forward scout, the party was aware that the way down into the secret basement was under the stairs, so he went round to the far side of the staircase and punched the wall breaking a mirror and not finding the door, so he went back around to the closer side of the staircase and punched the wall this time finding the door. Then Nightwalker decided to take a "shortcut" to the basement, and shot a power bolt into the floor while standing on top of a unconscious cultist. (the picture we were using was rather good looking). This had an amusing result when we worked out the DEF and Body of the floor and had him take out about half the floor including the stairs. After the fight Nightwalker broke away as the group invited him to join the circle but didn't give him much in the way of information so he went to get guidence from his totem. Things went pretty much as expected from there and Nightwalker joined the circle. So episode one was a success but the questions unanswered: Who arranged things for the cops to show up unexpectedly quickly? Why is the bad guy getting top notch legal protection? Who arranged for the Marshall to be called in before witchcraft (too bad he was unavailable)? Episode two: Shade over Millenium City.
  15. Re: Shadows into Light Well, I might be able to use the 7 bottles of blood on the wall.
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