The final confrontation with the big bad - Jade Spider!

The heroes struggled against her.  She wielded a powerful sword, and they tried hitting different versions, but she seemed to jump between different forms (each of them moving differently!)

#401 – Jade Spider – Edward Fink (Ratman), following a lead on weaponry connections of Motivator, discovers dangerous biotoxins at a manufacturing facility in Singapore.  He then alerts the Guardians via an anonymous phone call from a mystical emporium a few miles away.  Associates Kensai and Warlock fly to the island, meet C.H.E.S.S. agent Joseph Ng, then investigate the locale of the call, The Monkey’s Paw, and question the proprietor, Shelvas.  Outside, after Fink passes by unrecognized, a thug demands they leave the area.  Warlock confronts him, and the pair is assaulted by ninja assassins of gangster Koya Ree, who they swiftly dispatch.  Warlock questions one of the attackers and learns details of a mysterious crimelord called Jade Spider, whose Syndicate has taken over most of the territory in Singapore.  Ng introduces them to novice hero Blackbeard, and the three investigate the target location within Tanjong Pagar Terminal, on the southern coast of the city-state.  They spy on and enter the building, finding it empty except for bodies of more of Ree’s assassins.  They also discover elaborate avian synthetic facsimiles that appear to be delivery vehicles for biological weapons.  Authorities arrive, but the local police appear disinterested in pursuing matters.  As they leave, the group is attacked outside by eight Syndicate ninjas.  They make quick work of the martial artists, but as the last one falls Jade Spider appears, delivers a challenge, and disappears.  Suspecting a trap, the trio confronts her at the small building across the city.  The villainess confounds them with many duplicates of herself, and they struggle to harm her.  After a long fight, Jade Spider decides she has made her point and teleports away.

[Moved the entry for Exploits #41 over to the Exploits thread where it belonged]

The team as they discovered that they were facing pretty overwhelming odds:

A full shot of most of the bad guys.  Hanged Man used his Illusions to make it difficult to tell which one was actually him, and he also made an illusion of the captive Guardians (plus one villain).

Angelus went up mano a mano against Zyklon.

The heroes combined their fire on the single villain, whose Power score was devastated by two hits from Psypher's Devitalization Ray attack.

#404 – River of Time – The Council meets and some changes are made: Helios is made co-Security Chief instead of Neutron, and Perihelion, Sir Rathos, Summoner, and Rune are moved to inactive status.  Accepting an invitation by Dr. Ralph Boescher of George Washington University, Psypher watches as Helios, Spirit, and Kensai undergo an experimental hypnosis treatment to make subjects resistant to illusions; disappointingly, it does not seem to work.  Days later, the group is contacted by Professor Michael Robinson, an expert in Egyptology.  He asks the heroes to come to Egypt, to lend credence to his theory as he presents it to other scholars.  Three days later, the four heroes meet him in Cairo at the Ramses Hilton, and he explains that a discovery has led to his new belief that the ancient Egyptians used super-strength to build the pyramids.  As his meeting is delayed for a few days, he arranges for the curator to give them a private tour of the Cairo Museum.  Later, as they view the exhibits, most of the adventurers notice a display of bronze weapons change to iron, the description by Dr. Manuel also changing mid-sentence!  Outside they perceive other changes, and when on the phone Dr. Robinson mentions his magnetism theory (for how the pyramids were built), they realize that some alteration must have happened to the timestream!  Helios recognizes that a news story he was following (of missing iron from a mine) has disappeared, so team pilot Hammond flies him and Psypher in the Guardian Angel to the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota; they don’t notice that Hoshi Carter also sneaks aboard.  Helios impresses security at the front gate, and when their craft hovering above registers strange readings below, the starstruck guards accompany him to the main processing building.  Psypher, Kensai, and a hidden Ryutsume also make their way into the building, where an energy sphere swirls around a hooded man stealing iron.  Helios convinces Hourglass to power down his time travel powers, but when he threatens him with arrest, the paranormal reveals that he is Felix McClain, owner of McClain Iron Company.  The guards are sent away, and Hourglass agrees to take them with him when he returns to the past.  When he does so, Ryutsume also jumps through at the last second, and they all find themselves in a desert with a cliff and a new pyramid nearby, surrounded by many ten-foot tall, bald men!  Hourglass orders the Super-Slaves to attack, and the four vigilantes make quick work of Hourglass and the seven gigantic Egyptians.  After looking around and seeing a great army of Super-Slaves outside the pyramid, they are greeted by a wise old man, Scribe, who takes them back to his humble home in a nearby cave.  Scribe explains that a false god named Pharaoh has imprisoned their leader, the divine Ramses.  He believes Pharaoh is trying to help Egypt, but Scribe feels it is not right.  He tells the travelers how they must overcome the Sphinx, slip into the pyramid, and defeat Pharaoh and those that came with him, rescuing Ramses, the only one who can rally the people and restore history.

For this adventure, I used SUPERS! RED to run it (the fifth different game system for the campaign).

Both adversaries were drawn from the Supervillains! supplement, which are eleven characters that I'd converted to V&V years ago (though I've never used any of them in the campaign yet).

#406 – Energion – Joined by Kensai, Araneae, Phase, and Angelus break up a gang meeting in a D.C. underground parking garage, intimidating nearly twenty thugs into fleeing in fear.  About a week later, the same four drive the team’s prototype ground vehicle out to Charlottesville, Virginia at night, responding to strange reports about Quiasar.  They arrive to find their teammate flinging bodies from the roof of a building, apparently controlled by some kind of entity.  The heroes attack and try to convince their team leader to snap out of it, but the alien Energion taunts them in reply, using Quiasar’s force fields to hold them at bay.  Energion/Quiasar leads the Guardians, leaping and flying deeper into the city, then rouses the monstrous Green Gargoyle by damaging an old church.  The heroes work together, shattering Green Gargoyle and grounding Energion, forcing the electrical creature to flee the body of their companion.  Angelus brings the slain N.A.S.A. scientists back to life.  Epilogue: Green Gargoyle takes up residence atop Washington National Cathedral, while Energion plots at an undisclosed location.

What happened to the pictures?

Cool1  I like your counters/maps/layouts.  Very creative.

Do you realize this thread is nearly six years old?

It's been awhile since I've posted any pictures for any of my games, so I plan to do so again (it should be easier now that I use my phone instead of a camera!).

In any event, this first one is just to show some counters I made for some Egyptian statues (of gods) for the "The Sands of Time" adventure (that I renamed "River of Time", being as we'd already used the aforementioned title for one of our past tales).

I repurposed some of the Egyptian deities (from Jeff Dee's old art in "Deities & Demi-gods").  The PCs didn't end up messing with any of them, so they didn't end up serving anything other than set dressing.

Here's the same shot from a different angle.  I was pretty pleased with how my counters representing tons of 'Egyptian Treasures' turned out.  I found some Google images of such, and ran it through one of those free sites that turns pictures into comic book images.

I'm not sure why Photobucket is displaying these out of order, but here's another shot of that earlier fight.

Next up (for pictures) was dsumner's "Rising Sun".  This first image is from the set-up by the vigilantes before the villains arrive.  Wraith is by the pump station, while Raijin waited up on the pipeline.

Wraith rushed out to meet the oncoming group, where he was seriously outnumbered!