[OOC] Villains

[Poonbahbah]

Originally Posted by Michael Thayne

Part of the problem may be that, whatever the opposite of railroading is, I have a tendency to do that as a GM. I think that problem may have killed the "supers in WWII" game I tried to run before it even got off the ground. Here, I had a vision for a game on the "villains act, heroes react" model, and while I had no trouble deviating from that when Lamech explicitly said, "I want to have the heroes be coming after me," in general I was expecting players to formulate their own grand plots.

Another part of the problem may be that most of the players don't seem to have much reason to be working together to me. You've got several stories all in one thread sorta getting in eachothers ways I think.

Maybe if you had them seperated until such time as they have reason to be merged. Like Agent Chaos and the mind guy in one thread and Febs and the vamp in another until they do things to bring them into one thread/plot.

It might make the forum a little messier but I don't think anyone is going to complain. All them lost in dreams threads come to mind.

On an unrelated note I've finally come up with a character for this thing. Some number of weeks after recruitment closed. :p

[momothefiddler]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

Shall we just wing this being our own referees? It becomes more free form but it would be cool to see what happens!

Could work, maybe.

Originally Posted by ericthered

Who's still around?

I am

[DarkForce]

If you need more players I would not mind helping out.

[LemmingLord]

So far:

so far Roster:

FeebleMan / LemmingLord: a physically feeble man with infinite wishes. Motivation: thrill-seeking?

Death of Smallpox / ericthered: a death who's coming for a hero who cheated death.

Harbinger of Hope / momothefiddler

[DarkForce]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

So far:

so far Roster:

FeebleMan / LemmingLord: a physically feeble man with infinite wishes. Motivation: thrill-seeking?

Death of Smallpox / ericthered: a death who's coming for a hero who cheated death.

Harbinger of Hope / momothefiddler

So would you want another player? maybe a brusier type?

[ericthered]

Well, what we really need is a GM....

[DarkForce]

I might be able to acomadate that, what is the point of the game? What is the drive of the characters? Would you just want to start over with said already made characters?

[LemmingLord]

Roster:

FeebleMan / LemmingLord: a physically feeble man with infinite wishes. Motivation: thrill-seeking?

Agent Chaos / zoncxs: super-soldier with additional divine abilities granted by chaotic deities who demand he spread chaos in return for his powers.

Phoenix / Lamech: a vampire lawyer who represents villains, and recently made quite a few enemies by killing a hero.

Death of Smallpox / ericthered: a death who's coming for a hero who cheated death.

Eidolon - Markus Sharpe / Talosian

Harbinger of Hope / momothefiddler

Big Plans
Eidolon wants to bring the world under a perfect system of order.
Harbringer wants to destroy superheroes so an alien invasion can occur(?)

Just Doing their Job
Phoenix has a professional interest in defending super villains in court... She also has some enemies. She has some standard vampiric disads but her wealth make them moot points.

Death of Smallpox has a professional interest in being death for a supero heroine who apparently might resist... And the hero has friends who can see and zap death...

Fun and Chaos Bunch
Agent Chaos is a mercenary who might fit in the just doing his job category except that his job is to creatively use chaos to kill his marks.

FeebleMan is a spoiled socioparhic gamer using his serial immortality to use the real world as his own grand theft auto sandbox... He gained his abilities as a phoenix blood cult member and by dealing with something man was not meant to know which he looked up in Phoenix's vast library.


So far, I've seen things through the Phienic-Feebs connection. Her enemies just had an attempt on Phoenix's life - though I suspect it was more if an attempt to reveal for camera crews the inner working of a vampire by blowing up the lair and getting good footage of vampiric regeneration at work..which would have been a lousy plan if Feebs hadn't done what looked like ritualistic suicide on top of Phoenix's corpse... If someone did get footage I'm sure Phoenix will need to play spin for the media.

Eidolon and Harbringer haven't done much yet but I do believe they will likely team up... Possibly using Phoenix to set agent chaos and death of smallpox free of a vigilante super prison... But this is all speculation at this point.

[momothefiddler]

Originally Posted by LemmingLord

Big Plans
Eidolon wants to bring the world under a perfect system of order.
Harbringer wants to destroy superheroes so an alien invasion can occur(?)

Wow, rude. That's not at all what I want. I just want to fulfil my mission and take my leave. By which I mean take over the world and squash all the petty human squabbles so I can usher in a space age utopia so I can fix my gat-dang engine already. And the superheroes have this whole thing where "invading alien robots are baaaad" and "you can't take over the woooorld".

The whole space age utopia goal is why I'll probably end up working with Eidolon, though.

[zoncxs]

I am still here, and yeah. Agent chaos just wants to keep everything in order, no wait, whats the opposite of that?