Four days after the White Event, things seemed to get back to normal.   Some greedy people tried to rob a bank.  Unfortunatly, these greedy people possessed superpowers.
   Problem Child, Pit Boy,  Pheonix, and Lamprey decided to use their newfound metapowers to line their pockets with stolen cash.
    The Science City Police showed up in record time  and a hostage situation ensued.   Fortunatly  three rookie metahumans showed up to stop this potential blood bath.
    Responding to  the sound of the explosion Pheonix created to crack open the bank vault,Windwake, Captain Warlock and  Deacon Hammer converged on the scene.
    Det.  O'Mally was engulfed inflames by Phoenix.  Windwake flew down and doused the fire with a windblast.   She then turned and blew Problem Child across the bank, knocking him out. 
  Lamprey swooped in and cut Windwake's face and then he tried to draw out her bioenergy  for sustanance.   The Deacon Hammer tried to smite him with his sonic staff.   Captain Warlock fell into a pit created by Pit Boy.  Windwake overexerted herself and rescued Captain Warlock with some strong gusts of wind.
   Phoenix then fire blasted the Deacon Hammer who took some minor damage.   Windwake blasted Pheonix and doused her flames.  Pit Boy opened a pit almost under his own feet and nearly fell in.   The Deacon Hammer was knocked into the hole and  Windwake, invisible, pushed Pit Boy into his own pit, knocking him out.    Captain Warlock and  Windwake, working together,  rescued the Deacon Hammer and Pit Boy from the pit before it collapsed in on itself.
     Pheonix then got up and took off.    Windwake tried to follow her but Pheonix was just too fast.
      The three heroes then accompanied the police  to HQ to fill out paperwork and to look through mug shots.
    While they were watching the survellence vidoes, a smelly, ragged, strung out looking man came out of a storage closet.  He asked them to follow him to the hidden tunnels in the bowels of the city.   Windwake tried to contain her claustrophbia, which she did, for a while...
    Once they made to the dirty old man's hidden home,  the Deacon Hammer recognised him as Dr. Philip Yurt, the man who designed  Science City.    He showed them the plans of  what he designed and what was actually build.  He said due to cost cuts, and cheaper materials, and altered  city plans,  his city of dreams would become the city of nightmares.
   Clearly Yurk is insane.   He claims  "The Man"  aka  Philip Manning, head of Manning Enterpise and  financier of  Science City,  tried to poison him to keep him from telling the world.  He says since then he can't think straight.   That and his nearly constant aphetamine usage to stay awake so that the nightmares generated by this faulty city don't claim him.
   Will the heros help him?  Is the City of Tomorrow  really the City of Torment?    Can three rookie heroes defeat a man who bankrolls the first and greatest superhero team, The Mighty Seven?

Yup to both.    Dark Warrior blew up real good.   And Mike decided to  put  Marshal Strong on hold for a while.  Modi went home to Asgard, so that leaves Glare as the "old soldier" of the group.

You haven't played, hard  to continue a story without the player.

Oh sorry,  I just sent one PM to start the ball rolling.  Can you come next regular session?   Not this Friday but the next?  If not then we can work something out.

John wrote on Feb 13^th, 2011 at 8:59pm:


I believe I can make it, but let me make sure first. I'll know for certain next week if the following week is good. We're still dealing with stuff regarding my father, but hopefully that will all be done by this coming week

seems we have a lot of crap to deal with still. I don't think it will affect me coming to the game in 2 weeks, but as I stated earlier, I'll give a more precise response next week.

Cool. If all goes well though, I'll be there. Of course, it won't be the same without Dark Warrior and Modi there to go berserk at every attack, but I guess I'll manage 

  First off, I would like to apologise, as this was not my best adventure.   I was a bit off, as  one brand new character who was just rolled up was tossed in the mix,  one character yanked out, and then inserting another into an existing story.
   I try to  make the adventure with the powers in mind, so it went nothing like I had planned.

It was also funny how when i finally fumbled an attack roll, I knocked myself out in the process. Plus all the damage to the armor I need to repair now. Actually getting attacked/hit is new to Glare. he's so used to everyone going after Modi & Wally that with them gone now, he has to realize he's an actual target for bad guys now 

John wrote on Feb 26^th, 2011 at 2:44am:


Glare doesn't see himself as a big wig. Even though he's 8th level, it's because he got so much XP on his first 2 missions because everyone else was much higher in level than him. In reality, he's still very much the rookie, and I keep playing him that way. I think it makes it more fun to be the guy unsure of himself. He was the new guy amongst a group of experienced heroes; now he finds himself the most experienced hero in a group, some of whom appear to be more powerful than his suit (his first impressions of Ivory Tower is that he's a powerful nutjob, just not as powerful as Modi or Wally). He showed a little bit of self assurance when he woke up, and was demanding to know where his backup was, but for the most part, he tends to be sweating inside his armor. It's a change of pace from the way I usually play characters, and I'm finding it quite enjoyable. I just need to memorize the rules (and your House Rules) better, so I don't need to keep asking what I need to roll all half the time

I was trying to run an adventure based on all the superhero cliches'  ( explosion at the bank,  first time meeting means fisticuffs with each other..)  and the next  thing was captured by Mad Scientists who then monologue.  Didn't quite make it there yet.

I mean Zomborgs?   C'mon, how cheesey can I get?   ( well, I can get cheesier...)

Nemesis was doing some beta testing when he heard the sound of fighting.  He opened his door and saw what he thought were soldiers marching down the corridor.    They slammed the door shut on him.
  He suited up and put on his power gauntlets.    He followed the sound of gun fire and found Zomborgs!  They attacked him.  He deftly took them out, and made it to a room with Zomborgs strewn all over the place.
   He saw a secret door closing, and bashed through it.    He followed the fleeing team into the darkness. 
   In the halls, Deacon Hammer collapsed dead from internal bleeding.   Ivory Fortress was lost in the tunnels, and Glare collapsed unconscious.
   They made it to Dr. Yurt's "bedroom" and they rested up.
   Meanwhile, Jaime Darque, aka Startide, was relaxing on a pleasant solo camping trip.  She felt the nice getaway was just what she needed.   Unfortunately, she awoke from her dreamy sleep, underground and in the dark.  And if that wasn't enough, she was wearing a cloak made out of rat hair!
    In the dark, she felt another person's hands.    She was trapped with another woman, who, could not speak.
    After a few hours, a diminutive man gave her some food.   She recoiled at the horrid thing.    The screams alerted its master.     A large hulking fat man with beady eyes and an extended nose referred to himself as the Subterranean.  He informed Startide that she and the other woman were to be his brides.   That as king of the Underdark, he could marry as many women as he wanted.    He said she would taste the mushroom as Anodyne did.   He then said she would be silenced as the dark requires silence.   He pointed to the slit in Anodyne's throat.
    They were led to a giant, pulsing mushroom and the Subterranean got on one knee.  He referred to it as the Mushroom God.   Startide comported herself, pushing her fear to the side, and warped gravity.  She pinned the Subterranean, and crushed the Moldoids.     She grabbed Anodyne's hand and took off.
   She then suddenly felt an overwhelming feeling of euphoria, she couldn't concentrate.  It didn't matter, it was all good.

   Nemesis, Captain Warlock, and Dr. Yurt tried to figure out what to do next.    Yurt said that they had to destroy the statue of Philip Manning as it had started to flicker.  He said that it was built using orichalcum, and that the white event must have activated it.    He said it’s a metal that conducts "cosmic energy".
     Yurt was spreading his papers all over when they saw that more Zomborgs were about to storm the room.   Captain Warlock attacked first and alerted the others.
   Nemesis activated his gauntlets and turned them to steel.  He pummeled some Zomborgs silly.   Captain Warlock blasted a few with telekinetic blasts.
    Dr. Robson, who was feigning unconscious, jumped up and hit Captain Warlock with a wastepaper basket.
     The room was being riddled with bullets as the two heroes evaded the attacks.
      At this point Startide recovered from the euphoria and found that she had been herded by moldoids to a battle scene.   She was witnessing a teenaged boy holding his own against undead soldiers.   The Subterranean also attacked the boy, hitting him in the side.
     Nemesis reacted by gleaning his weakness (his eyes are very sensitive to light!) and transformed his gloves to burn with while phosphorous!   He slammed his palms into the Subterranean's face, knocking him out.
    This left Startide, Captain Warlock, and Nemesis to deal with ten undead zomborg with semi automatic pistols!
     After an extended battle, in which the Subterranean got up and again attacked Nemesis, the moldoids erupted into sleep spores.   
     One by one, the heroes succumbed.    They awoke in Dr. Morrow and Dr. Robson's lab.   Dr. Robson began to monologue.
   ”In order to be fully accepted as one of the Octagon, I was ordered to find out where these toad men are coming from.    I have deduced that they come from another space time continuum.    You will prove this to me; I am sending you to another plane of existence.    Where am I sending you?   To the Earth's Shadow!  HAHAHA!   You think I am mad?     Look, a three dimensional object casts a two dimensional shadow.   Now the Universe has more than three dimensions, so its shadow has substance. It fact it is a universe of its own, but, more fagile as it has  one less dimension!   That is where these beings are invading from.   They are using Earth's shadow as way station.    I think the White Event caused earth to cast a longer shadow, and it pulled back these toad beings.    Prove me right, and I will bring you back!"
   At this he turns on his Transendentaliser and sent the heroes to the plane of shadow.

*A Smee was first encountered by Oni and the Spartan in Black Tulips and Black Magic

One other thing,  Stormbringer sounds like a great character for Paul since the Weather Control gives him plenty of flexibility for creative experimentation and problem solving and that seems to be what he enjoys doing most in the game.......besides destroying everything like a super serial killer   

STORMDANCE wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 10:52am:



I agree.   So far three of the most underated, and higly creative powers that  before this team, have not been used by my players, are now currently in play.    Weather Control, telepathy, and gravity control.     There are so many cool tricks a player can do with these powers.   This current line up has the potential to be the most powerful.  Throw in Mike's transmutation and forget it.  This could be the Cosmic Team of teams!

Sounds good.

Naturally.......

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LOL    what a weakling.

So is stormbringer stuck there now?

I was gonna say, Stormbringer was comin' back with a few tornadoes for you fuckers.

File Lifted from A Glaring Commentary. 


I'm typing this on my laptop from the infirmary at Black Mesa. A lot has happened since my last entry.

After getting most of us back from the Shadow Dimension, I called CHESS for a pick up. A transport chopper arrived with some Knights, along with a man we call "The Octopus". Why is he called that*? Well, he kind of looks like Doctor Octopus from the Spiderman comic books, without the metallic tentacles. He's an autistic genius who builds most of the hi tech weapons and other equipment CHESS uses. He's far more intelligent than I am. He's off putting, but the man is one of the greatest scientific minds I know.

Anyway, he detects radiation on all of us, so we're ordered to stay by the vehicle. The Moevian does something shortly after (or at least it looked like he did; I didn't ask), and suddenly, the radiation is gone. The Knights ferry us back to Black Mesa, and I learn warped back somewhere in Utah.

I check in on whether Robson was taken into custody, and find out he got away before they could grab him. I'm convinced we have a mole in CHESS (again!). This is not good.

When we get back to Black Mesa, I exit my armor, and send it to my lab, so I can prep it for repairs. It took a slight beating when we fought the zomborgs, and the power cells are kind of low. After that, we're all taken to be examined, while Yuri (the last Russian we met in the Shadow Realm) and Startide are rushed to be treated for whatever killed Pavel and the Captain.

They run all kinds of routine tests on us, but the Moevian isn't being that cooperative. He keeps asking to be taken to his embassy, and like I did before, the medics tell him there is none. How does he not know all his people left Earth after the White Event?

I contact the liaison for the team I was once part of, but he's giving me the cold shoulder. I don't think they believe me when I tell them about the Slaad. While I'm on the phone with him, Amazon and Lamplighter show up. They're two more experienced metahumans working for CHESS. Amazon convinces the Moevian to go into quarantine, since he won't let them take his blood for testing. They leave afterwards, which is good cause Lamplighter freaks me out. As much as I sometimes envy those who have internal powers, I'm glad mine come from the armor. I'd rather be a human in a tin can that someone who looks like a human shaped amoeba wearing a green cloak!

The Octopus comes in as well, and tells me my armor will be fully repaired in about an hour or so. That guy is real creepy, but damn is he efficient!

Sometime later, a cook comes in, asking us what we want to eat. I decide on the Venison Meatloaf, when the cook starts suggesting we all try the Chili. For some reason, I start liking that idea, and Nemesis Kid is so excited, he goes to hi five the cook. Before he does, the Moevian yells out a warning, and Kid pulls back. The cook is acting strangely, trying to touch kid's face. Kid hits him, and shit hits the fan.

While Kid and the other guy (who I later learn calls himself Stormbringer) deal with the cook, I run out of the room, and get the guards. Except things turn for the worse because Kid and bringer have KILLED the fucking cook! Shit! This is bad. The guards are pointing their guns at them, and Kid pulls some crazy stunt you see in a kung fu movie, side stepping the Knight, and punching the butt of his rifle into his face, knocking him out. The other guard starts acting like the cook, and bringer goes invisible, and disarms him. He then shoots the Knight in the knee.

At this point, I hit the alarm, and go running to get my armor. I encounter Amazon and Lamplighter on the way, and try and tell them what is going on, but they ignore me. I get halfway to my armor when I'm telepathically contacted by Nexus, the powerful Psionic who works for CHESS. he orders me back to the lab without my armor, because he feels I can keep everyone calm. Yeah right, like that worked when i called in the knights! Still, he out ranks me, so I turn around, and head back the way I came.

I find Kid staggering in the hall, acting doped up. Anodyne must have healed him, which means he was hurt. I slap him a few times to get him out of it. Lamplighter staggers out of the room too, his inner light very dim. He looks weak. I ignore him while I get Kid back to normal. I later learn that he and Amazon slugged each other unconscious. We go back into the room, and the Moevian lets us know that whatever this thing is, it's going to where Yuri is.

We run to the room they're operating on him, but get there too late. It takes over his body, and proclaims itself a god! I'm wearing those patient wraps and underwear, and we're facing off with John Carpenter's The Thing. I'm dead meat!

Kid and Bringer blast it; not sure what the Moevian does. Yuri's body contorts and as the being screams. I grab the defibrillator paddles, and shock it's head. It goes nuts, hits me, and I slam against the wall. The others attack it again, and I lunge again with the paddles. Yuri's body explodes when I touch him with the paddles, but his parts all dissipate.

The Moevian tells us that the being escaped. Great. We brought back some other dimensional, non-corporeal being back with us. I keep fucking things up. At least now my superiors are taking our story seriously, and work on getting a court order to allow us to dismantle the Orichalcum from the torch in the Colossus of Science City.

* He is called the Octopus because he has four tentacles growing from his upper torso that he is embarressed by and constantly covers with his lab coat, and has a steel hard beak instead of a bellybutton that retracts into his stomach.   He also has glands that secret black ink in his gums that he seems to have no control over when he is in deep thought, or working on something.

I wasn't sure if I left out any important details, but I guess it was good enough to use for the game summary 

I guess lawyers for CHESS will have their work cut out for them defending Glare on that breach of confidentiality suit

Glare built his armor on his own, with his own resources (he's got money, so he could afford it)

He was working for Manning Industries when CHESS recruited him to spy on Manning (they think he's crooked, and Glare's father worked for him, and disappeared mysteriously, and Glare thinks Manning was involved in that, so he agreed to aid CHESS).

The breach of confidentiality is likely Glare revealing company secrets to CHESS (which ironically, he's never really done, unless it was something illegal, like the zomborgs).

Blame the Moevian and he can claim Diplomatic Immunity.

THE ONI wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 8:30pm:

Dude that is so sinister It actually reminds me of a story thread Bill Willingham had going on in the A-Z Campaign in Geneva. There needs to be a real focus done on meta-humans effect on the legal system sometime