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Re: Need suggestions Thanks, guys. Maybe a joint mission through a mountain at sea could be good. I like the sea devils and serpents. Donnie would recognize the turtle but maybe I can use it somehow (He's beaten about half of the zelda games and Smash Bros melee). Good points about the environment hazards. Donnie has thrown this out for play ideas: Capsules that can be bought that hold monsters, spells, temporary skills. CES

Re: The Cosmic Reset Button: Destroying the World Weis and Hickman had the world shatter into pieces and be connected by a limited use gate. The populations were moved onto the different lands and set up new lives in vastly different environments. CES

Re: The Addams Family He's talking about bobobobobobo and his nose hairs of justice. CES

Re: Need suggestions While I still need more thoughts about underground, I now also need ideas for an extended sea voyage. Bring on pirates and sea monsters. We also decided that the flat Dragonia spins like a coin so there is an explanation for day and night. CES

Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority I think in Judge Dredd's case, judges are the law as well as the armed forces, public health, firefighters, building inspectors, and so on. I don't know if they started out as setting themselves up as that, but the huge cities they are based in sit in a nuclear wasteland. CES

Re: Doc Savage cover fakes THis is awesome, Jack. Thanks for posting the link CES

Re: Doctrine for beginning vampire slayers? The original Darren McGavin Night Stalker movie is all about hunting a vampire, who has also picked up some tricks. Other monsters can be found in the original television series. CES

Re: Notes from NSU Day Eleven Jacob Peterson stole a car. He drove out of the mountains, visited his former friend, got a new ride. Unfortunately he had to kick in a carjacker's face when he wanted the hummer. The new monster decided to hide out in Devlin's Scrapyard until nightfall. He drove over to the Lucifer Flatts HQ for SRJ. He ran into Eric Goran, the VP, who told him everything he needed to know. Jake was shot trying to escape. Security had him ready to be put on ice when he came to. He escaped, causing the storage facility to be destroyed to hide the evidence. Jake turned himself in to the Marshal's Office. Nathan and Ashlee battled Moto's Dragon. Ash knocked out one of its eyes. The building collapsed. Simon and Jui-Shen arrived in a cab. They went into the debris before the clean up crew. They found a rat with one eye that Nathan and Jui-Shen adopted. They went out and had dinner before Nathan and Jui-Shen went to their new apartment, Simon went home to his wife, and Ash went home to Jake. Kaison Malus showed up at five in the evening. His castle overtook downtown. Everyone in town arrived to battle the fragment of a god. Their combined forces kept him busy until Shana Goldstein closed his prison door. The castle vanished. No one realized he had already impregnated four women.

Re: Dragonia Flames freed Sir Donald after defeating the snow snake. They return to the temporary headquarters set up by the yeti rangers. They filed their report on the cabin and the antennae around it. The Chief Ranger asked Sir Donald to return to the cabin and mark all cabins like that he could find. Sir Donald's party once more took to the air. They found to their horror that snow snakes in the hundreds were flocking to that one cabin, called by some unknown signal. Donald urged Flames to circle around while he threw one gravity axe, then another, at the cabin. The roof eventually fell down. Before that happened, the trio were buried in ice by the snow snakes. Luckily, defensive force walls kept a hole open in the mountain of ice so they could move in after chopping themselves free from the ice that had already hit them. The cabin collapsed inward, smashing whatever equipment was inside. The snow snakes flew off. Don cut his group free. They flew back to headquarters to report what had happened. Yeti rangers move out in force to wipe the innocent looking shacks out of existence. Don went back to his base tower to recuperate from the struggle. The dragon knight from the embassy arrived. The yeti police were not happy with what Don and Ishiyama had done at the Sonic Cannon Tower, but he was reinstated in the Dragon Knights, and the king had new orders for him.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Hellboy: Darkness Falls by Mignola and Fegredo- Trade collection of the miniseries as Hellboy battles Koshei the Deathless in mythical Russia. Working on Bloodline, the lastest repairman jack book out. CES

Re: Walking With Strangers Right now I have a partial list of handles. Sooner or later, I will come up with an idea, then write a small bullet list, then start writing. Right now I am just writing this story in this series, so I don't know what I will think of when I do sit down to write one with your handle. And sometimes I can't make the initial idea work so I have to change it. CES

Re: Does anyone have a write up of Gloop/Gleep from the Herculoids? Lord Mhoram has meeb in his signature, and Meeb was a gloop sort of guy. CES

Re: Walking With Strangers 4 Odd Dorfman sat in his bookstore, counting the minutes until he could close. He had discovered a screen out of his hat when he was walking in that morning. It showed him the town as he watched it on his counter top. A few odd customers wandered the aisles but they were minding their own businesses at the moment. Odd had found the odd bowler he wore constantly. It had been in a thrift shop when he had still been in his teen years, looking for a means to rebel against the establishment. He had accidentally discovered the talent it gave him. Odd had liked to drink to excess when he was younger. He had gotten plastered at a party. He had fell on his hat, sticking his hand in the mouth of it. He pulled out something that instantly sobered him up with its too many tentacles and eyes. He shoved it back in before anyone else knew what had happened and decided to walk his shattered buzz off. Anyone else would have thrown the hat away before it did something worse. Odd kept it, experimented when he was alone. He learned two things. The hat gave him a random item based on where he was standing. It also gave him a knowledge where that item could be found once he started to look for it. He had helped save the town but he knew he had been in the rear while everyone else had did all the hard work. He had just reached in his hat and pulled out a show stopper. If one of the GMs for his role-playing games had done that, he would have shook his head at the dues ex machina. Still he was on the team at least as back up. The government agent they had met through Enforcer had said as much. Childhood dream fulfilled like that. Why wasn't he happy? The bell rang by the door. Odd looked up and smiled. His lovely wife stood there with a smile on her face. She carried a plastic bag from the crafts store with the handles wrapped around her wrist. "How's your day been, Hon?" Kitty took his breath away every time he saw her. Her golden hair, periwinkle eyes, voluptuous frame could net her anyone but she had chosen him. He still couldn't figure out why even after all the years they had been together. "Slow." Odd leaned back in his chair. All of his worries vanished with Kitty's arrival. "How's things gone with you?" "I sold a couple of things with a few more orders to be filled." Kitty pulled out several folded sheets of material to give him a peek. "The Black Five Regiment has ordered new standards for their reenactments of the Dunsinane Burning." "That's the one with a big black five on a yellow background?" Odd thought it resembled the air cav symbol he had seen in the movies. "I thought you were asleep when I was laying it out." Kitty looked at the ceiling, remembering that night. "You were sick and on the couch." "That's the only thing I do remember from that whole weekend." Odd shrugged. Customers still wandered the shop. He looked at the clock on the wall. Time to get rid of them so he could have dinner with his stunning wife. He put the screen he had pulled from his hat under the counter. "Last call everyone. We're closing for the night." The small crowd came up to the register slowly. Some wanted to keep roaming the stacks but Odd just pointed at the time. He waved them out one by one, then locked the doors. The last thing he had to do was count the day's receipts and make his deposit. He could lock the money in the safe to take to the bank in the morning. "Despite seeming to be slow, we had a fair day at the book store." Odd wrote out a receipt and placed it and the money in a deposit bag. He sealed the bag and put it in the drop drawer of the safe behind the counter. "We'll be able to pay the rent and utilities for sure." "What about this government offer?" Kitty went to the alarm next to the front door. Their quarters were in the back of the store, sealed away by a locked door. "Are you going to take it?" "I think so." Odd lowered a metal grill over the glass frontage. He tucked the screen under his arm. "I just wish I could do more than be back up."

Re: Need suggestions I don't about an underdark. Still something opposite from the civilizations on the other side might be okay. CES

Re: Need suggestions Donnie mentioned wanting to deal with Crystal Golems in the land of the Lamias, and a kingdom of underground monsters. So we are going to add that in with a journey to the center of the world. Then a sea voyage. CES

Re: Under-Age Cat-Girl Librarian The mighty Huntress's sheet is posted in the campaign thread. Go to the champions board and look at the Chronicles of the Agency. CES

Re: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Another actress to play her character. CES

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... In later books, Drake does state that he is using those books and the journals of some lord as the basis for his books. I remember in the latest book that he commented that while he was using those journals he couldn't have his hero be a traitor like the nobleman who had written the diaries. CES

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? 36th Chamber of Death. Fugitive rebel becomes a Shaolin monk and returns home after being told he can't teach others Kung Fu. I remember this from when I was kid, but I didn't remember the fighting being so slow. CES

Re: Hey, that worked pretty good! Afterthought powers that worked well The gravity axe spell my son picked out. He just selected it to fill out a slot. It's turned into a major stopper. CES

Re: Magistracy:Origins 12 The two boys glared at each other. Almost the same height and build, they could have passed for brothers to those that didn't know them. The older boy sneered as they faced each other like gunslingers. Only gunslingers hadn't been born yet, because firearms weren't even a dream in an inventor's brain. "Chemist?" The older boy's sneer grew more pronounced. "What kind of title is Chemist?" "I looked into the future." The younger boy crossed his arms. "That's the name I had so I have decided to adopt it at the start instead of changing my mind and picking another name." "Looked into the future." The Chemist's counterpart laughed. "What makes you think you'll be alive in this future. Time can't be trusted." "I'll be alive as long as you're alive." The younger boy barely changed his expression. "That much I saw, Scriptus." "You know that isn't a guarantee." Scriptus jabbed a finger at the Chemist. "Time can change at a moment's decision. You know the rules for that." "I'm not worried." The Chemist frowned. "The glimpses I took was enough show me the way the world will change in the next millennium. Magic will slowly become a lost art and be replaced by something called science. No one will even believe in it." "You're lying." Scriptus pushed the other boy with both hands. The Chemist fell to the ground before he could catch his balance. "There's no way that magic will fade away. Look around you." The Chemist picked himself up, letting the dust fall off his robe. He shook his head. The school of magicians was the biggest facility of its type in the world. Every train of thought about the metaphysical world was honed and bestowed on the students in the hopes they would destroy darkness wherever they found it. The Chemist knew all of that would be gone and never be replaced. They could strive to hold off the end, but he didn't see how the masters would be able to stop it. "Admit this vision was in error." Scriptus loomed over the Chemist. "Admit that you saw a false future." "Only time will tell." The Chemist almost smiled at his joke. The fist cracking against his cheek stopped that thought. He staggered back. "What did you do that for?" "You tell me these hideous things but you don't tell me how to prevent the outcome." Scriptus raised his fist to strike again. "You can't, boy." One of the masters tapped his walking stick against the smooth stone walk as he approached the students. "Well, you can, but time is the consequences of our decisions, not the tool of prophecy." "I don't understand, Doctor." Scriptus let his hand fall to his side. Fighting was prohibited and he had been caught doing that by one of the teachers. He could be expelled if the old man wanted to make an issue of it. "No one does." The Doctor smiled. "Shall we go for a walk, boys? Maybe that will cool your heads." He turned, white hair brushed back from his high forehead. His short cloak flapped as he stepped into a floating hourglass that appeared in the air around him. Scriptus and the Chemist hurried to catch up. The world changed to a blur with the Doctor holding on to the slippery slope of time with his stick embedded at the edge of reality. Scriptus and the Chemist grabbed his cloak so they wouldn't fall into the maelstrom around them. "A bit confusing, isn't it?" The Doctor raised his free hand. The landscape slowed to a barely tolerable vibration of the small courtyard where they had stood moments before. "This is time?" Scriptus looked around, careful to maintain his grip on the old man. "This is what the world looks like when the likely outcomes of things are plainly visible." The Doctor looked around. "In this small setting, the courtyard seems hardly to change. Shall we go ahead five hundred years?" "I want to see this future where the magic is gone." Scriptus glared at his fellow student. "I want to see it for myself." "All right." The Doctor started walking, pulling himself forward with his stick. "Let's go." The three of them watched as the world changed. The courtyard blew apart in a soundless fury, fire and destruction reigning for a few steps. Then they were pass, and still walking to some unknown destination. "What was that?" The Chemist stared back at the fiery cloud falling behind him. "The destruction of the school a few years after we left." The Doctor kept walking, examining the sky above them. Things roared through the sky above. The type of thing depended on the moment they watched as they walked. "It doesn't look like your future, Chemist." Scriptus smiled. "It looks worse." The Chemist tried to identify the things that drifted above them. "This is a consequence of someone's decision, or of some disaster that was unforeseen." The Doctor pointed ahead. "We'll stop at the millennium and look around." The three reached the line of light placed to mark the end of their thousand years and the start of the next. The scene looked worse than it had when they had started. The Chemist raised his hands to start writing on the ether. "I wouldn't." The Doctor held up his hand. "Magic will reverberate along the timelines, disrupting more than helping." "This isn't what I saw." The Chemist balled up his fist. "I swear it. None of this was in the scrying bowl." "This is more interesting than a world without magic." Scriptus looked around in wonder. "I've never seen so many demons wandering the world." "And almost as likely to appear." The Doctor turned. "Let's start back. I think this is the end of the lesson."

Re: The New Circle Flying Fox- "How long are we going to wait, Captain?" Lt. Marshal Marston chewed gum, wiping away sweat from under the brim of his helmet with the back of his gloved hand. "My guys can do this without any help." "If you want to get your fellow police officers killed, go ahead." Captain Dobie Daniels unwrapped three peppermints and put them in his mouth. He was trying to quit smoking and this was his way of forgetting the need for a cigarette. "Otherwise we wait until we can get someone who can do some heavy lifting for us. So take five." A streak of fire appeared above the scene. It dropped straight down, scattering armed men who didn't know if they should shoot or not. Metal plates scattered into rainbow dust to reveal a man dressed like an aviator from the past right down to the goggles and leather helmet. A bright red scarf settled as the cloud dispersed. "Not him." Marston gave a look at his commanding officer. "He's a nut." "Heavy lifting." Daniels pushed the peppermints between teeth and gum before adding one more. "We got a problem. Something knocked over the bank over there, grabbed one of the tellers, and took off underground. We need someone fast to go down there and follow it, hopefully get the girl back." "No problem, gentlemen." The stranger smiled. "Just let me get ready." The aviator walked over to the hole in the street. He concentrated. Pieces of loose concrete and asphalt came apart around him. Slowly the debris built into a ball of black metal. Then it rolled into the tunnel. "That was the Flying Fox, Captain." Marston waved over a squad of armored men armed to the teeth and over to the hole. "I hope you didn't get that girl killed." "I don't care about her as long as the monster is dead too." Daniels started walking over to the hole, making sure his revolver had six bullets in it. "Let's go." "Back of the line, Captain." Marston nodded. Anchor ropes were secured to vehicles parked next to the hole. The SWAT team started down into the darkness. Light amplifying goggles covered their faces as they slowly descended the incline. Marston didn't want to catch up to the Fox. That was too dangerous. He just wanted to be in a position to grab the girl and run if they had the chance. Down below them, a light streaked across the ruptured underground landscape. It rounded an invisible corner ahead and vanished. At least the Fox's strange machine was almost as quiet as the men following him on foot. Only the light betrayed it. Marston nodded to himself, glad they had hung back. A light like that would paint a target on the Fox. His men had a slight chance of going undetected while whatever was down there tried to deal with the metal ball. That might be all the edge they needed. "Two man teams, watch out for your buddy." Marston whispered in the quiet air. It sounded like shouting to him. "Stay close to me, Captain. Leap frog." The squad broke into pairs. One pair would descend behind cover, then the next pair. Marston and Daniels stayed at the back of the jogging force so the heavy firepower could be used without having to think about it. If anything came at them in the tunnel, they needed to be able to saw it apart before it became a serious threat. Outraged roaring drifted to the SWAT team. Marston called a halt, ordering them to dig in. Broken rock jutting from the ground gave them cover against whatever was down there if it came up. "It sounds like the Fox has introduced himself." Daniels braced his revolver on his pillar, pointing it down the tunnel. "Get ready for it." "We'll close the tunnel here." Marston nodded to two of his men. They pulled off their packs to unload gray bricks wrapped in plastic. "It might give whatever it is a headache." "This is the Flying Fox." The voice echoed up to them, drawing closer with every word. "Clear the tunnel ahead." "Get off to the side." Marston crowded next to Daniels, blocking his goggles in case the Fox swung his spotlight on them. "Cover your faces." Something roared by the team on a streak of light. It vanished through the hole in the street above before Marston could register what it was. The pressure dropped in the tunnel as it receded. "Hurry with those explosives." Marston shouted at his men. "Get ready to fire." "The Fox left us with the heavy lifting, Captain." Marston glared at Daniels as his men moved with urgency. The sound of an engine roaring filled the tunnel again. "No, he didn't." Daniels saw something bulky in the darkness below. "I should have gotten a bigger gun. Character Name: Flying Fox Real Name: William T. Fox Nationality: American Hair/Eye Color: Brown/brown Place of Birth: Springfield, Ill. Date of Birth: 2/23/73 Height/Mass: 5'8, 185 pounds Cost Characteristic Value 10 STR 20 51 DEX 27 20 CON 20 20 BODY 20 8 INT 18 30 EGO 25 5 PRE 15 COM 10 PD 4 ED 4 23 SPD 6 REC 8 END 40 STUN 40 OCV: 7 DCV: 7 OECV: 8 DECV: 8 Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Cost Powers and Talents (END) Armor (10 pd/10 ed) 30 pts must concentrate to activate (-½) OIHID (-1/4) Harms the environment when activated (-½) Needs Material to use (-½) 11 pts Flight 20' 40 pts usable by 8 others (+1) linked to armor (-½) variable advantage (+1/2), variable disadvantage (-1/2) Gestures (-½) 27 pts Teleport 1" 2 pts Usable by 8 others (+1) megascale (+1), linked to armor (-½) Extra time (-1/2) Must cross intervening space (-1/4) gestures (-½), Must be in the air (-½) 2 pts Energy Blast 8d6 40 pts linked to armor (-½), gestures (-½) physical manifestations (-½) 16 pts Ranged Killing Attack 3d6 45 pts linked to armor (-½) gestures (-½) Physical manifestations (-½) 18 pts Radar 15 pts linked to armor (-½) 10 pts Life Support Self contained breathing, all safe environments 19 pts Linked to armor (-½) 13 pts Flying Fox's extras 30 pts + 15 pts VPP linked to armor (-½) 30 pts Cost Skills 3 Combat piloting 14- 3 Combat driving 14- 6 TF: Wheeled vehicles, jets , planes, helicopters 2 Navigation: Air 12- 3 Mechanics 12- 3 Electronics 12- 3 System operations 12- 3 Tracking 12- 3 KS: Physics 12- 3 KS: Engineering 12- 3 PS: Engineering 12- 3 PS: Vehicle Design 12- 2 Survival 12- 3 Stealth 14- 40 + 5 levels with all combat 20 point Ferriman Institute Package 3 Bump of direction 150 Points Disadvantages 25 Watched by the Ferriman Institute 14- 15 Reputation: Speed Demon 14- 20 Psych Lim: Likes to go fast always 20 Subject to orders 10 DF: Speed Aura detectable with Vril detector 30 Hunted by Ferriman Institute's Rogues Gallery 14- 15 Watched by FAA 8- 15 Overconfident CHA Cost = 167 Total Powers Cost = 127 Total Skills Cost = 106 Total Cost = _____400_____________ Background Information: William T. Fox has always had the ability to create vehicles out of thin air. His father was a trucker, and his mom worked a factory job making gears. They both said it felt like they were one with their machines, which made it easier to use them. Unknown to the family, Roscoe and Billy Jean Fox had been exposed to a type of radiation and subliminal programming that allowed them to merge with machinery like it was part of their own bodies. The Ferriman Institute discovered the Fox family after a routine sweep picked up Vril radiation in a minute quantity. After several interviews, and a demonstration of what Will could do, they hired them on to work for the Institute. Will joined the Challenger program to help keep the world safe and to go really fast. Quote: "Time to blow up this popsicle stand." Personality: Will Fox likes to go wherever the action is as fast as possible. He has antagonized the FAA with his daredevil attitude. They don't like something blasting in a flight path without authorization. Free time is spent at a track, either watching the races, or borrowing a car to get in them. Appearance: Will Fox is an ordinary looking guy who is either in jeans and shirt, or racing leathers in the Challenger colors. Powers: Will has the ability to mentally build a vehicle around himself. He does this by stripping material around himself while he is concentrating on what the vehicle should be able to do. Notes- This character is also a cheat. Log man had a call out for a game that unfortunately never started. My character is based off a character from S-cry-ed who builds vehicles around him from cars to jet boots. I had a slot set aside for Kazuma the Shell Bullet, but I used this character instead.

Re: Dragonia Sir Don and the yeti police have a brief confrontation before they bring Flames and Ishiyama back from the brink of death. They started after Cooper, who planted a couple of steam man to shoot at anybody trying to follow him down the stairs. The three peace keepers blast through the ambush to pursue the felon. Sir Donald helped to blast through a second ambush where one of the two Yeti cops was wounded. He went ahead to meet a single steam man robot. After a tense struggle, the robot threw the knight over the stair railing to his death. Donald caught the railing two floors down and avoided being shot as he ran downstairs to the basement. The dragon rider found a closed door. He peeked through a keyhole. A steam plane sat in a small hangar, powering up to take flight. Sir Donald tried to sneak into the hangar, but was spotted. With steam man bullets flying by, the knight jumped on the tail of the plane and climbed on the back of the plane. He ran toward the front with the hope of getting inside and using it for cover. The squad of robots and Cooper try to catch Sir Donald in a deadly circle of fire. He trapped most of the robots with an application of his gravity axe to the roof of the plane when they climbed in the plane to chase after him, before having to jump down. The knight had to apply his axe to the front of the plane to escape. The nose of the plane came off, crushing Cooper again and the free steam robots. Now the menace was quieted, Sir Donald visited Flames and Ishiyama in the hospital. They were both being released soon. They filled out their reports, remarking that Cooper had been in charge of the assault on the city with his sonic weapon. This puts Cooper on the most wanted list of criminals in three kingdoms. Sir Donald was put on leave without pay as the Yeti authorities investigate what happened. He landed a job as a park ranger, and was assigned a tower to watch several passes north of Opal proper. An emergency flare lit up the sky. As Donald watched, an avalanche of snow and ice fell on the valleys and people making use of the trails. He and Flames rushed to the scene, looking for survivors. They were able to rescue one person as more rangers arrive to sift through the cascade with their gems. Not many of the visitors survived the excessive weight of the cascade when it hit the bottom of the valleys. Rescue operations are carried out with zeal, but there were very few survivors. Night fell, and snow started to fall. Donald saw a shape at the window of his tower where the meeting of rangers was taking place. He went to investigate and discovered a giant snow snake. The snake froze Flames and dragged him away in the darkness. Donald and Ishiyama decided to brave the storm and go after the beast before it could eat his trusted companion. They track it to a cave in the mountains above where the avalanche took place. The two heroes broke Flames free, wounding the monster before retreating. They decided to go back to make sure the monster couldn't bother anyone else. It attacked with its freezing breath, but Sir Donald sent it crashing into the valley below with a hurling of his gravity axe spell. A few days later, there was a meeting of rangers. Dr. Putt was introduced. He informed the gathering that the behavior of the snow snakes was atypical. Some brain must be behind it. Sir Donald volunteered to check things out for the assembled group. Flying the ravine road, Sir Donald and Ishiyama found a set of antennae leading to a little shack on a cliff overlooking the road. They also found snow snake trails leading to the shack. Don examined the shack and found metal shutters and a metal door. He tried to break the door down with his gravity axe. It simply shrank into the ground. Then the snow snakes burst out. Don stopped the first snake with his gravity axe, but the rest blasted at him. The tiny group took flight on Flames's wings. Several exchanges led to Flames being frozen in midair, being freed and Don using a gravity axe to drop one snake on top of the rest. The whole gang fell to the ground. The knight was happy as he flew off. The first snake attacked from behind. That caused Flames to crash. Ishiyama was knocked out. Sir Donald was frozen while the dragon tried to recover. The snow snake turned on Flames. The dragon attacked the snow snake's face and head, clawing into its skull until it was dead.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I saw bloodline at the end of the shelf, went back to pick it two weeks later, and it was gone. Asked the clerk but they couldn't find a copy in the store. It's like Barnes and Noble only carries one of his books for a short time and then never again. CES

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Ben 10 secret of the omnitrix-Not on board with a hero dial blowing up the universe but otherwise my boy and I enjoyed it. CES