What about "The Mighty Sore" the godda thunda?

"Hold base varlet! I bade thee hold, miscreant, and when the godda thunda bids someone hold, by the Soaring Spires of Secaucus, he'd best hold!"

https://vignette.wikia.nocooki...%28Earth-9047%29.jpg

Or maybe Bimbeau, goddess of really neat things in the mythology of California?

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Bimbeau_(Earth-9047)

Um. No, I don't intend to use a deity from a normal Marvel (or DC) reality, even a humorous one. One key point in the Blood-Red Swordmen's matrices and powers is that all of their magic is derived from fictional (in-universe) sources, made "real" by whatever the HECK the hive mind's utterly alien (to the entire Multiverse) power actually is. It is human creativity, not objective reality, that permits it to survive inside the extremely hostile Marvel Universe environment.

Well, sure.  I'm just thinking that Kevin or another character might inadvertently cause you problems by invoking the Newton effect.  The Newton effect is from a game called Tales from the Floating Vagabond.  Whenever someone is doing something outlandish that clearly defies the laws of physics/reality, the "Newton effector" can say something like "That's not possible!" and the outlandish thing stops working.

Note that the laws of physics/reality invoked are those as the invoker perceives then.  So a prehistoric caveman could stop a bundle of perfectly normal dynamite from exploding (or drop a helicopter from the sky) by invoking his own Newton effect.

So, if Kevin begins questioning how Bloodrager's cleric/magic stuff works, he might get Bloodrager to also question it and, boom, Newton effect.

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 915):

I wouldn't object to that happening at times :>

Kevin wouldn't do it more than once, but he really wouldn't have to.  The thing with Kevin is that since he's team leader, he's going to want to know the ins, outs and limitations of his team so he can maximize their strengths and compensate for their weakness.  This includes himself.

So, Kevin's going to want to have a full practical understanding of how Bloodrager "works."  He'll ask who Bloodrager is a Cleric of.  He'll probably buy a couple of D&D books to show to Bloodrager to help quantify his powers.  Which means that Bloodrager will learn that his abilities kind of come from some made-up game and perhaps cause the hive-mind to retreat in confusion.

While this might help the Russian human who is stuck in Bloodrager, Kevin's going to want his healer/magic-user back on the team ASAP.

As an example, the sword Woundhealer was lifted from a series of novels by Fred Saberhagen. Although Bloodrager's version of it is rather weaker than the original.

The ring and his blood-vomiting are based off of comic books (just not Marvel ones), again somewhat modified and weakened.

Deriving mana from pain? Magicians (the "language-learning rpg) and Infernum.

The naming scheme ("Sword of Cup") and his externalized organs/magic items are lifted from the Exalted roleplaying game, specially the Raksha (Fair Folk - the elves of that setting).

The spell that he cast to heal Doc's eye in Texas was pulled from the more obscure rpg World Tree, while the slippery spell he used on the Maggia here came out of one of the Arduin Grimoires (although the incantation was pulled from an episode of the cartoon Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light).

Of those various references, probably the only one Kevin might be able to get is the one to Woundhealer (Kevin read Sabrehagen's The Holmes-Dracula File and thought it was pretty cool.  So he looked up other stuff the guy had done, like the Berzerker series and the Books of Swords.  It's been a few years, but Kevin would likely be reminded of the Swords and might even pass a couple of those books to 'rager to check out.

'rager can't read (which irks his human side no end).

Kevin might give them to him as Audio books.

The other thing that might result from this is what if Kevin figures out that Bloodrager can basically make what he believes in real?

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 921):

*big shit-eating grin*

I know someone who can help with that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...=5&v=kge3475CUa0

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 923):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwcGjsnIw0

Does Kevin need a moment with the darkness? I could procure some Kenny G and candles if you want.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 925):

Actually, Taskmistress could probably relate to Kevin's situation a little bit.  She also has a power that's useful and flexible but risks her permanently losing fragments of her memory, her Self when she uses it.

So they both have abilities that could push them over a line from which there is no return.

Besides, how likely is it that Taskmistress even remembers/knows who Kenny G is?

Psshhh I've got Google in A.N.N.I. I can just look up sexy saxophone songs and .... Huh.... Wow damn Kenny g is obscure now. I legit can't find him on Google without using his name.

Ze case, she be rested.

LMAO was he ever relevant?

I don't know about relevant, but he was pretty popular/known in the 90s and 00s.

Sax and jazz aren't really my kind of music, out-of-character. So all I'd know about Kenny G is just the name.

Presumably they're not your kind of music in-character either.  Although Bloodrager hanging out in jazz clubs would be interesting.

Bloodragers type of music is Reggae Death Metal played on a Theremin.

Not necessarily, Taskmistress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXRQvTcqek

Death metal/Black metal is kind of interesting to me.  A lot of it comes out of Scandinavia countries, which are places of hot tubs, bikini teams and quietly benevolent Socialism.

But.

But they used to be the places from which Vikings would sail forth to ravage the "civilized" world.

My head-canon about Black/Death metal is that most people in those countries are fully civilized, but the fans of that music have a bit of a genetic throwback to Viking times.  The band members would have been the leaders of the Vikings.

Now, if only some kind of Viking-loving supervillain would reawaken that terrifying spirit...

Get on it, GM.

hey I'm still here, just been very busy with stuff in my life

*ponders Spiderman*

*ponders Bloodrager's cooking issues*

*ponders the rpg book The Ecology Companion, and the chapter on "the delectable realm of insects"*

*ponders Big Red trying to prepare a fly-based "meal" for his web-slinging friend*