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7 hours ago, Greywind said:

Yes, the team has a vehicle. The weapons tend to be the people riding inside it.

Puts me in mind of the scene in X2 where the team’s Blackbird (still one of the coolest teams vehicles) is being chased by F16s and Storm calls down multiple tornadoes to make them break off. 

12 hours ago, dsatow said:

I can see anything remotely large flying at Mach 10 towards a slightly paranoid country being shot down as a missile unless there was something to prevent it from happening.

That’s why IFF transponders exist. Gotta squawk the right codes early enough, is all.

Which of course raises questions about a recognised system of codes that a superhero vehicle uses, and the results of a country that refused to recognise them shooting down an aircraft moving at such a speed. Especially if the.response afterwards was effectively just “Oops”.

I can just imagine the fate of a young black man who acted as British Patriot hero, especially one who represented the British Empire..... 

For extra salt, he can be called Captain Wilberforce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

I’m still trying to work out how a blended wing could be V/STOVL without relying on genre handwaves (since I do like level of realism). 
 

Parking tickets would have to be dealt with as they came, or you could posit that registered superhero vehicles on legitimate business don’t get ticketed. I do enjoy the image of a zealous meter attendant giving such a vehicle a ticket, though and an exasperated superhuman trying to get it dealt with, or explain that it’s exempt. 

1 hour ago, Tjack said:

  I just had the image of a Quinjet sitting in a parking lot across from some superhero battle with a Handicapped parking tag hanging from the rear view mirror.

I suppose. I guess I’m not thinking about this is genre-appropriate terms. Also, I mind that the British Harrier could land and take off from a motorway, so I guess if it was a parking lot big enough, then yes.

The team vehicle is a supersonic V/STOVL blended wing design. 
- In addition to the stealth technology incorporated into the design, it has on board avionics specifically designed to further hide it from radar.

- it is armed but it’s not a problem, since normally nothing is obvious.

- sonics booms are the sound of freedom. Ask any SR-71 pilot.

- it it conventionally powered, if on the exotic end. 

- I have no idea about parking tickets.... that implies it’s parked in somewhere meant for cars, etc. I don’t know how that would apply to an aircraft.

He can be from a West Indian family. Make his grandfather (or great-grandfather, depending) a colonial soldier who fought for Britain in World War 2. 

On 8/16/2020 at 11:32 PM, Ragitsu said:

 

I couldn't stop laughing. Given how our conversation started and the direction it was heading, I imagined you as an innocently enthusiastic minister knocking on my door in order to ask me that question.

 

To answer your inquiry, though: yes.

Adjusts glasses and knocks on Ragitsu’s door “Excuse me, have you time tohear about the Nephilim?”

On 8/16/2020 at 11:32 PM, Ragitsu said:

 

I couldn't stop laughing. Given how our conversation started and the direction it was heading, I imagined you as an innocently enthusiastic minister knocking on my door in order to ask me that question.

 

To answer your inquiry, though: yes.

Adjusts glasses and knocks on Ragitsu’s door “Excuse me, have you time he hear about the Nephilim?”

Domino, my sorceress character runs a second-hand bookstore specialising in mystical/mind/body/spirit literature and has a reputation for being able to get you anything. Of course, she’s also the scion of one of the richest families in the Bay Area, so it’s not like she *needs* a job, but she enjoys the work and the clientele. 
 

(I do confess, I haven’t thought through the practical logistics of this, I just thought it sounded thematically appropriate, not merely a cool idea.) 

I take it Power Man is the half naked man with the strap across his chest?

5 hours ago, Christougher said:

 

What does Diablo III have to do with this?

The Nephilim are from the Bible, in case you weren’t being sarcastic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim

2 hours ago, ChaosDrgn said:

Holy Hera, that male Wonder Woman. Now, there’s a man without fear.

Kudos to the rest of them, too.

5 hours ago, Ragitsu said:

 

It was a way of breaking the notion that chastity/celibacy is an absolute necessity for that individual striving for harmony. Plus, in that setting, there are celestial beings that come down from the heavens to meet with mortals.

And more than just “meet“. Have you heard of the Nephilim?

True... the others are fortitude, stoicism, self-discipline, pride in self and nation and race and that humility before the gods which is the mark of true wisdom

(If you.look at the Classical Virtues and compare them to the Christian Virtues, there is a lot of crossover)

Punchline looks cute

On the original topic, how about a smart carpet bag, for the discerning hero or heroine?

Cool drawings, Scott.

Strange how the mental gymnastics work, isn’t it?

Nixie is too cute. She makes a good Spider-Gwen, as well.

X-Men: Evolution was a great cartoon. 

28 minutes ago, Greywind said:

MOMMA! 😍

 Aren’t there load bearing systems where the pockets and/or pouches are attached by Velcro?

I have a problem with Velcro because if it gets too hot, the material can warp, losing strength over time, and if it gets too cold, it can become brittle, causing the hooks and eyes to snap.

Ooh! Excellent Rogue cosplay!

Or if you’re running a sufficiently high silver age campaign, you could hand wave some kind of high-tech version of a bag of holding, or anime’s Hammerspace.