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I get Where you're character is coming from and where you want to go,

However this was initially intended as a Hero's game and not full out vigilante team (which is basically what we would be doing in that concept)

I did want to allow for some of the darker aspect hence the initial "breaking of the law " speech at the start and allow for some leeway for certain aspects, (which allowed what Harbringers got away with)

Darkstar and Taskmistress can fit the Vigilante mode...Maybe Mortis, Possibly Blood due to the (for lack of better term) "D&D" type attitude.

A vigilante team may be a far stretch for Darwin, Spiderman (if he is still around), and Aurora.

But I am flexible and can adapt to change the direction of the team and game along with some of the other game villains and NPC's that will be introduced later on.

I just would need everyone on the same page though.

I'm not 100% back yet (remodel is being dragged out, and my house looks like a disaster with boxes, tools, and other around, among other things) but I'm willing to follow whatever path we take. Darwin probably isn't the vigilante type, but I do have other characters who might be a good fit.

It does look like the group has kind of been leaning toward a darker route, so that might be a really fun way to go.

As far as vigilantes goes, Kevin isn't The Punisher or even Batman.  He's more like somebody who'd be a member of the Leverage team.  Or maybe a superheroish Robin Hood.

Kevin is a criminal.  He thinks like a criminal even if he is somewhat on the side of good.

Figure part of his plot and struggle will be learning to be more of a true superhero.

No problem Darwin, thanks for the update.

I know it's not full on kill a la Punisher style (well not anymore lol) but "steal from murderous criminals " is a vigilante act not heroism,
and murderous criminals isn't something that is "common" in a typical marvel game. But can be a fun element to add on certain Villains,

Hence why the shift to vigilante type. So if by chance we open the game up should we need new people we'll know that someone like Capt A would not be a good fit.

I will note that (a former) Captain America is already a good fit given that he's effectively the main boss of the Task Force.  I'll also note that in the Civil War, Captain America was basically on this side of the vigilantes.  He wanted the Avengers free to go where they wanted to and do whatever needed to be done to whomever they needed it to be done to.

Ultimately Kevin's point is "HYDRA is made up of a bunch of Bad People with Sinister Plans.  Do we really truly want to sit around waiting for them to spring a Weather Dominater, Alien Invasion Gate or Sub-Orbital Murder Gun Platforms on us or should we hit them and bankrupt them before they do all that crap?  Maybe siphon their bank accounts and divert their billions toward famine relief in sub-Saharan Africa.  And you know, maybe a 4k entertainment system in all of our rooms.  Like that."

Adding my 5 cents...

Governments already target criminals, freeze illegal funds, & confiscate contraband.  Kevin's idea to use the wealth of criminals could still be above board with Government permission and some record keeping.  Basically a privateer charter :)

Other than covering an R&D budget, I'm not sure what other serious expenses the Taskforce has.  Also taking down cashed up criminal groups of non-enhanced members sounds like training practice for some of us.

Overall, I'm happy to go with the majority.

LOL alright alright hehe Point taken Kevin :)

OK not a problem and most seem happy with it.

Darwin I don't see too much conflicting with your character so I don't really see this as being a stretch for her.

I don't think Spidey would be an issue since he isn't the Peter Parker one.... however I think we may of lost him as his last login was Mon, 25 Mar. And Aurora maybe awol as well...

So will let some idle chit chat go by and set us up for this. I'll post up later my part for Naslund with Kevin.

See, really this is a debate that needs to be held in-game between the characters - much in the same way the debate was held in Captain America: Civil War.

Here in OOC I'm telling you Kevin's viewpoint as the character.  For me the player, I'm fulling willing to go where the group as a whole wants to go.  If the group wants to go full-on four color superheroes, I'll make sure Kevin will (grudgingly at first and with plenty of snide comments) go along with that.

Besides, there's no reason there can't be a mixture.  Age of Ultron started with the Avengers hunting down HYDRA and attacking their final base before morphing into a war against a (strangely charismatic and well-spoken) killer robot hive intelligence.

As of The Avengers "...Earth is ready for a higher form of war."  Any of the beings from this list might be stopping by to try to kick our furniture around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ces_in_Marvel_Comics

Plus we've kinda sorta pissed off Mephisto, the Marvel version of Satan.  Figure there'll be repercussions from that.

We have the whole Marvel universe to play with.  We'll have a variety of stuff to do.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:36, Wed 01 May 2019.

I'm a mercenary. Sooo

I agree, I was not intending the game to be the goody goody two shoes hero's, But it's always nice to have one member with a high moral compass on the team though lol

I do want to go more gritty then the most Supers game and will be going in that direction hench why originally harbringer was brought on (although it did become a little extreme but was a good shift) and now with Taskmistress

But hard to just jump in and that that route if you have no explanation on how we support ourselves which is initially what I wanted to establish first. There was a method to my madness as technically we are still getting our feet wet However with this Maggia hit that takes away from needing to rely on others.

So besides Mephisto + Harbringer on the loose,

This will allow also 2 new arcs to play out.

The Maggia which will definitely be looking for retribution.

Harry may potentially be upset now that he may be turned down which may result in trouble for the crew and with Oscrp under his belt... Should be fun coming our way!

So William and Kevin can discuss in the office and then we can bring this to the team as a whole ;)

The other five Blood Red Swordsmen could be causing chaos of various sorts in the background as well. Even with trying not to end sentient lives, the mass misunderstandings and weird viewpoints can still precipitate all kinds of messes.

Plus who knows what skeletons are in my closet that I don't remember.

LOL

Harbingers not up to anything don't worry about it we're all good here shhhhh.

So how big is the next time jump?

I'm looking forward to Taskmistress learning that Kevin's operation netted the group $14 Billion dollars and then just following Kevin around like a lovesick puppy - a greedy sociopathic lovesick puppy.

Kidding.

But, so, while William is the director and Kevin is the team leader, I kind of do want the characters' input on what kind of direction they'd like the group to take.

Pssshh Just Cause I'm a mercenary doesn't mean money is that important to me. My best investments are DVD box sets because I can experience the shows fresh every few months. Mostly I'm in it for the action and adventure. Money just ensures I have what I need. That reminds me. Bloodrager had a good idea. I have to look into Androids.

Other than repairs for things that actually need it, I'm not sure what Bloodrager might come up with in the way of sensible suggestions for using so much money. He's not an experienced agent or soldier, and many gaming books don't go much into what you spend the treasure on after you retrieve it from the dungeons.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:56, Thu 02 May 2019.

The 2019 budget request from the FBI was a little under $9 billion.  The one from the DEA was a little under $3 billion.  A nuclear submarine (sans crew/missiles) clocks in at maybe $5 billion.  A B-2 Stealth bomber (with nukes) is around $2 billion.

We have $14 billion now.  This isn't "Hey cool, we can get a new TV for the Rec room" money.  It's "Director Naslund, the U.S. President is on Line 2, shall I put him through or tell him to call back later?" money.

As for the Maggia, at this point there really is no Maggia now.  They just lost 99.99714% of their assets and operating capital.  They can't pay their people.  Or costs.  Silvermane will need to mug people for money to get batteries to run his body now.

Looks like paying Taskmistress and Blood will be easy....

Here's 6 box sets of DVD's Popcorn and some soda.

Bloodrager I have 400 Gold Coins... (shhh no one tell him they are chocolate coins) Oh and those rubies ring pop rings! Good job out there lol.




Yes we will need to have a meeting on it, this will not only be our decision.

TM you asked about the time jump. Not sure yet.
Again we seem to have lost 2 players so was wondering on opening the game to bring a couple more people on before jumping.

Actually Keeping Oscorps on board with us may allow for easier into to new Player Characters, Thoughts?
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:27, Thu 02 May 2019.

Reminds me a bit of Wander Over Yonder and the battle royale episode over a ring pop that had earned a rather different interstellar reputation through rumor and gossip.

Hey, I've been busy, but I finished my spring class so I have more time to be around here, can someone run by me what I missed?

Welcome Back Spidey, We finished the mission and pretty much just got back to the base.
Posts in Hanger, Rec Room and Williams office. So far just some RP discussions, So you haven't missed too much.

Sorry guy's busy little bit at work will try to catch up tomorrow.

Been having weird internet outage issues.  I'm still here, but my posting will be hit/miss until I figure out the real problem and fix it.

https://tinyurl.com/y447dtdb

OK get some interaction in with each other.

Gonna work on the next chapter in the meantime and see how to clean up some loose ends.

Apologies I will away for a bit, dealing with a slight health issue please continue to develop your characters for now. I will post up when i can.

Best wishes :)

Hey, I'm back!  Been crazy busy between the home renovations (which still aren't DONE!!!), trying to unpack around the mess, dealing with the little one, and my work with Atomic Ninja Studios.

We're ramping up to launch our first Kickstarter, we've launched more products, and I'm working feverishly on my own project for yet another Kickstarter (hopefully).

So of course I come back as Sym has to take a break. :)  Hey Sym, feel better!

Sorry about the delay, Mortis and Spidey. Real life has been giving me issues again (depression).

Shameless plug: The fantasy one shot adventure "Icy belly of Fillion Manor" from Atomic Ninja Studios is now up on DriveThruRPG. Tell your friends (I would, but I don't have any...)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/p...lly-of-Fillion-Manor

And... you have some more of my money.

In reply to Bloodrager (msg # 30):

Sorry to hear that, BR... I've a friend who struggles with it, and a family member too.    Not a light thing.   Hope you're feeling better.

And I find it kinda funny. I find it's such a strain. the dreams in which I'm running cause my body real life pain. I fucking hate horde zombies. And dodging till I drop. Till my heart's about to give out wake up feelings wants to stop. It's a very very Bad world.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 34):

Aaaaand that's that song embedded in my skull for the next few hours.

My bad, fixed it in my bio.

Will post tomorrow, been watching my boy all day while fighting off a migraine/cluster headache which has taken all the energy right out of me.

Haha couldn't resist - hope you feel better, migraines are awful.

Hi Guy's ok Heading back to the doc Next Monday, Slight accident ended up perforating my eardrum. YAY!
Not sure if I need surgery just yet or if it'll heal by itself.
Hard to focus on things till I get use to partial hearing lose and muffled surroundings (again not sure if that is also permanent.) Just more frustrated than anything,

You know, given our team's mission of finding superpowered individuals, we could have a situation in which a super-powered kid emerges in Kansas.  Except that instead of it being Clark Kent, it's that psychotic little bastard from Brightburn.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:10, Tue 28 May 2019.

LoL There could be possible scenarios in that manner coming up at some point.

Ok so should be back to normal this week. Apologies on the delay.

You know, something in this scene confuses me. We've been together as a group how many weeks, and Kevin is just now realizing that that there is more than one mind inside Bloodrager? Neither Sword of Cup nor Heart of Heart have made any effort to hide that particular fact in chapters we've played out.

He's been distracted with leader things and hair maintenance

Kevin understood that there was more than one mind inside Bloodrager, but he hadn't put together the full picture until right now.  For one thing, he hasn't interacted with Bloodrager all that much.  He knew Bloodrager had "MPD issues" but he thought that it was more like actual MPD with stressors and situations causing different personalities to emerge at different times.  He didn't understand that there was a controlling personality at the core, that "Heart of Heart" did the switching.

Prior to this moment, he thought of Bloodrager as some Russian dude that had had this happen to him.  That he'd been hit by some AD&D Gamma bomb or something.  At this moment he put together that Bloodrager can't read.  That he was a "Russian" from the Ukrainian since 1991 city of Lviv.  That he had memories of a mother and sister instead of a wife, friend, girlfriend, etc.  And that weird redness aside, Bloodrager looks like he's in his 30s.  To Kevin that all adds up to the idea that the controlling personality grabbed a 3-5 year old child away from his family and turned him into the D&D parody character.

While he's not quite as murderously psychotic about child abuse as Harbinger is, the idea of that happening to some poor little kid seriously provokes Kevin to anger.



It was slightly less noble than that.  Bloodrager is weird.  And Kevin knows himself well enough to realize that his pop-culture references and sarcasm would just confuse Bloodrager, which would annoy Kevin.  So, Kevin pretty much decided to leave Bloodrager to Spider-man and Taskmistress, since they seemed to have the patience to deal with him.

Ah. Seeing it from that light, it makes more sense.

Does bloodrager need my company in the rec room?

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 45):

Entirely up to you, Taskmistress.

Of course, now that Kevin understands (or thinks he understands) what's happened to Bloodrager, he's going to want to take action to help him.  And Kevin is still the guy who thought that flying into Hell to try to save Ghost Rider was a smart, reasonable move.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 13:52, Thu 30 May 2019.

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 47):

Feel free to try and help. It's your move, I believe.

I kind of want to wait a bit to let other people respond.  Spider-man, Mortis and Darwin are also there.  Plus, Taskmistress might want to come into it.

Sure :> The more, the crazier.

I'm here watching the posts.
Letting you guys interact don't want to fast forward to quickly. I am working on the next chapter but scrapped my first concept to go a different way and going obscure old school  :)

Loving the interaction guys! Great postings.

Now to wait for Darkstar to clarify.

I will be unable to post from Mon, June 3 until late evening June 6 due to being out of town and at Business Centers which block this site.

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 53):

Okay. I'll try to remember that. Will you want the GM to npc you during this period?

That'd be fine.  Though, really, I'll be able to post Monday morning and Thursday evening.  I don't think there'll be a huge amount of stuff going down between those times.

Since bloodrager can use magic/powers if he absorbed Taskmistress would he be able to use her ability to learn whatever skills she observed to copy superpowers?

Probably not.  Bloodrager's magic seems to be of the AD&D variety and 1st level AD&D at that for now.  Copying superpowers would be well beyond him.

Heart of Heart literally cannot absorb any more people. Too little of his reality's substance is left, and the design of the Blood Red Swordsmen is sealed beyond his ability to open again to make changes.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:22, Sat 01 June 2019.

Should I have made extra effort earlier in the game to explain the differences between a hive mind (which Heart of Heart is) and a mind hive (which Kevin and others seem to tend to mistake Bloodrager for)?

Took a stab.

Here we go again...

Possibly.  Really Kevin is groping toward the idea that Heart of Heart takes the American "units" and goes back to his own dimension leaving "Sword of Cup" in charge of the physical Bloodrager body and his own destiny.

Sigh. Here we go again...

Where are you getting the idea that everyone is even in one body from? Heart of Heart had 87 bodies (units) in his own reality, one of which survived the plunge through Earth's atmosphere to reach the ground dying. Now he's in 6 formerly human bodies, co-existing with what remains of their own minds.

Well, I'm working on my masters in psychology.    I can write one hell of a thesis paper from this!


They'll think I'm on serious drugs, but it won't be the same old same old!
This message was last edited by the player at 18:17, Sun 02 June 2019.

lmao Aurora that would be quite the read!

Blood it is fine, This is why we role play ;) No one knows each other and the fun is trying to figure it out between missions, remember technically this is like the beginning of supers so many of the Character and complexities should be unknown. The simpler heroes like Iron man and Cap are fairly easy to figure out. But when you start looking at characters like Bloodrager or should he come into play Cable for example with his convoluted time traveling aspect, Or say Legion, Illyana Rasputin, Manthing, ect. they are hard characters to figure out.

So the misunderstanding in characters just add to the flavor of the game.

As for Darkstar being away that is fine. I'm a little swamped at work an in real life and trying to stay on top of everything but am not as active online as I would like to be.

Yes!  I can log in!

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 66):

That's good news :>

OK gonna let the discussion in the rec room go for a few more posts.
In the mean time i will fast forward William a little and one of the adjustments for Doc ock.

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Besides trying to finish the house remodel and the plague if migraines, I've been putting in extra time on our upcoming Kickstarter and my own product which has been kicked into overdrive as our next big launch (in theory). Plus, I'm having some trouble getting into Darwin's head lately, so there's that too.

It can be hard to get into your character's head when yours is filled with pain.

I feel my own need to act out after the latest chapter of Hogwarts Mystery.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 71):

How so? What mess of bad plot was dumped in your face?

Meet Merula the love of my MC's life.





And here's the latest Chapter

https://imgur.com/a/4okNNgw

I... see.
Would Dumbledore be overly upset if her slayer were to become an extremely large blueberry?

She's not dead she's just been tortured with a curse that can and has driven magical Secret service ( Aurors) insane from agony. And on top of that verbally mocked and abused her. She's going to live with that.

Blech.

I can't find a list of the spells and brews actually in that game to suggest something suitably humiliating to attempt to do to that NPC (if the game allows such - I can't download or play any mobile-only games).

Let's start with Flaying and see where the night takes us.

Can living NPCs be tricked into your cauldron to use as ingredients (much like happened in the Wunschpunsch episode "Inspector Maggot")?

A look at the Wiki indicate that the Swelling Solution, Babbling Beverage and the charm, Slugulus Eructo, especially in combination, would have definite possibilities humiliation-wise.

I've got two of those down might have swelling solution too.

*watches several music videos that are almost crazy enough for him to have thought up*

Such as...

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

Hootsforce.

Drum-powered space submarines??

In reply to Bloodrager (msg # 83):

Well, how else are you going to escape from a Black Hole Sun?

*ponders Bloodrager trying to bake a recipe from something he's seen on TV...*

Kevin's take on that would be "You're a cleric.  Clerics can make potions like wizards can.  Treat it like you're making a potion - except that this will be a Potion of Braised Duck instead of a Potion of Healing."

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 86):

Oh, he has the ability to brew potions (it's in the original RTJ description of him). But you do understand that his potions start from a base of barfing up blood?

Well, it's not like there's a limit on what the duck is braised with is there?

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 88):

True... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JPoVtF1Fcw

sorry guys have been so slammed at work and life.... lol
really short on time, Will try to post hopefully this weekend for a change to move us along!.

Cool.  Looking forward to it.

No problem William, I've been keeping pretty busy too.

So here's a question I'm writing a story for my Hogwarts Mystery character. My headcanon is her dad is dead and Mom locked herself in her room 8 years ago and hasn't been seen since. So she's about to break in in an drunken state. Should Her mom be Dead ( the obvious answer) or something else?

If Mom was/is a witch, there could be all kinds of enchanted answers. Sleeping Beauty on herself is only the shallow end.

Mom was an animagus whose animal was a tardigrade.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:36, Sat 15 June 2019.

She's been in there, knitting, for 8 years. Every surface is covered by a scarf that has no end. Every color of the rainbow, in patterns and shapes, filling the room.

And where did she get so much yarn?

That sounds like that "Knit Harder!" episode of Wishfart.

What's the current date in game?

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 98):

Which game?  I'm assuming Task Force but we have been on this Harry Potter Mystery tangent for the last few posts.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:22, Mon 17 June 2019.

Ugh... what a weekend LOL

OK Chapter 5 set to go... REALLY sorry for the delay ;)

I know the feeling...wouldn't worry on 'delay', so to speak...I often find the games that move at a moderate pace, or where the GM takes breaks, tend to last longer.    The breakneck ones often don't last.    Personally, I can't keep up with that kind of pace, anyway.

Was asking about in game but moving on and technically back. My character is already pretty angsty and she's had to support herself from 8-15 this character sheet I'm doing to understand her better asks significant jobs and my sadist side is doing the Mr. Burns excellent gesture. But I'm not sure if I should go down those unlit roads.

What sort of character sheet?    It is it online, or something you wrote yourself?

https://www.epiguide.com/ep101/writing/charchart.html

Unless the GM has something more specific in mind, just assume that Chapter 5 of this game starts today-ish.  Technically, this game started in July of 2018, but even then it started a little after the first Avengers movie but before Iron Man 3 because AIM is still kind of a thing.  So, there's a case to be made that this game takes place in 2012-2013 or so.

Figure weeks if not months have passed since the Maggia stuff and the last bit of in-game RP with Bloodrager and that since then Dr. Strange hasn't had a hole in his schedule but we've been spending some money but staying on the down low about it because Kevin doesn't want to draw attention to the Task Force.

Did Darkstar ever discuss Taskmistress sniping Harbinger in the head with her?

*looks up Bigfoot recipes for ideas of what Bloodrager might be thinking upon hearing that there are 'large monsters' to eat in this town*

We don't eat Bigfoots. bloodrager That's like eating Chewbacca.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 108):

So I should put 'How to Cook a Bigfoot' away?

Yes.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 104):

Thanks - I'm into this sort of thing.



Cooking Bigfoot - naturally, it's a real book sold on amazon:

No.  Darkstar doesn't even know Taskmistress was the shooter.

Ah, found the exchange:









Yeah, I can see where I (and Kevin) should have picked up on that.  Still, Taskmistress never actually said "I was the one who shot Harbinger."  From Kevin's perspective, he doesn't care enough about the issue to delve into it.  He felt sorry for Harbinger, but mostly he's just relieved she's no longer on the team.

And if Harbinger somehow found out that Taskmistress was the sniper, Kevin would take Taskmistress's side and protect her.  Most likely he'd use fire and sonics to drive the symbiote out of Harbinger and put it in a jar for study or transport back to space.  Then he'd capture her human body and have her placed in some kind of very secure but compassionate mental health care facility so she could work on her many, many, many mental and emotional dysfunctions.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:30, Tue 18 June 2019.

In the words of Some guy named Varys" You might be disappointed will the results"

In reply to Harbinger (msg # 113):

Live and learn...

Really the main reason it would come to that is if Harbinger was either designated as a target by William (and Kevin would argue against that) or she came back and pushed the issue.  As far as Kevin is concerned Harbinger is out there doing her thing.  He doesn't exactly approve of it, but as long she does it away from him and his team he's fine with letting her keep on keeping on.

Besides, even I though I haven't mentioned it in-game, you can assume that Kevin has button-holed William into letting him study everything they have on her.  And not just on the symbiote.  On her.  As far as I know, outside of the symbiote Evelyn is basically a scrawny 19 year old girl who happens to be unkillable.  Given that, Kevin would prefer to separate her from the symbiote and put her someplace where she can get the mental help she needs.

Still, if it comes down to it and she's a danger to his team, well, Kevin was trained by Martin Devereaux (no known relation to Deedee), one of the most ruthless mother-fuckers who ever walked the Earth.  So, Kevin is capable of sticking her in a rocket and shooting her into the Sun.  Or a Black hole.  Or whatever it takes to keep his team safe from her.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:59, Tue 18 June 2019.

Remember when coming to separate the symbiote from her bring Sonic bullets, 5.5 liters of bleach, 5.5 liters of blood, And a transfusion machine.

In reply to Harbinger (msg # 115):

Or we just toss Harbinger into a bast furnace for a couple-three hours.  Figure whatever grows back after that probably won't be symbiote.

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 116):

Sounds like a Dex-Starr trick...

Dear god what if I'm a Tomie. *Shivers*

In reply to Harbinger (msg # 118):

What's a "Tomie?"

https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/Tomie_Kawakami

In reply to Harbinger (msg # 120):

I see.

In that case, someone can make a contagious, collectively sentient disease character that loves the taste of your cytoplasm...

I don't think I'm a Tomie. I am Bound on a cellular level to my symbiote like Carnage not Venom. That's why I said Darkstar would be disappointed I trying to separate me from it. When my symbiote gets attacked by sonic force it retreats into my veins. So The idea should be just getting rid of her completely. Which he has plans for. Nit rehabilitation.

I had forgotten to post this up, but anyone looking for a one shot adventure featuring Japanese culture (or more likely badly mangled culture) should be directed toward our new title, Shounen Kuesto. Written by my associate Dustin, it sends the characters out to helpa young lord on his task.

From the website:
"Kodama are attacking a fortress in feudal Japan, the Lord has sent his young son to sort it out, and you are charged with keeping him safe.

Inspired by Japanese cinema and spiritualism, Shounen Kuesto is an adventure in which a young feudal lord is called upon to deal with a supernatural threat. The party comprises the Young Lord’s retinue of advisor’s, mentors, and servants."

It's the second offering of our monthly one shot series, so if you know anyone who's a Savage Worlds fan, or likes the Japanese cinematic style, send them the link. :)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/p...75400/Shounen-Kuesto

RPG and mangled culture are like peanut butter and jelly!    Looks fun.




That's too smart!  You'll kill the adventure.  ;)

What is Darkstar saying to me I the thread?

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 125):

It almost sounds like he's picked up a bit of Bloodrager's alien (in)comprehension of time.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 125):

I guess you do have a memory problem...  Kevin is referring to the time Taskmistress was complaining that the fact that Harbinger could survive bullets to the head wasn't in the file give to "the Sniper."  I quoted it just a few posts up from here in this thread.

You jumped straight from question to statement which threw me off.

Hi Guy's I'm really sorry.

This is the busiest I think we've ever been at work It's really cutting into my play time lol, Real life hasn't been any slower,  No I am not abandoning the game but looks like will be at a snail's pace for a bit.
I am trying to stay on top of things but failing so want to be sure i set the expectations for you all.
 I'll try to post up this afternoon.


As per the question of timeline, Darkstar you pretty much have it correct,

As a guideline (should you want to develop characters / training / or their personal life ) the gap between a chapter is roughly 2 - 3 months gap from each other.

With that much time between chapters, I would think that we would know more about each others' powers, including some that don't get featured in the played-out scenes.

For example, knowing that Bloodrager has super-strength to go along with his muscular appearance. He can lift in the 8-10 ton range, even though his healing abilities override his strength and prevent him from using it to hurt living things. And that in addition to barfing up blood to form Woundhealer the sword, he can also barf up a fancy goblet the same way that serves as his cauldron for brewing potions in.

I apologize once again, but for some reason I just can't get into Deedee's head these days. I am literally at a blank trying to figure out anything to do with her.

I may have to look into a character swap or something if Sym allows, otherwise I may have to drop the game so not to hold people up.

I understand that feeling.

In reply to Darwin (msg # 131):

Well, the GM is also pretty busy IRL right now, so it's not like there's a huge time pressure to post.  Also, one of the problems of modern roleplaying that came out of GURPS was the insistence that players should be able to know the history and personality of their characters from zygotes up to this afternoon.

Play along on a physical/mental/problem=solving level for a while and let the emotional stuff come as it will through the role playing.

Or consider throwing a curveball at the character.  From what I can tell, Deedee was basically just born with her powers instead of getting them later.  That's fine.  But what if she was born with her powers because she's a Skrull?  Or half-Skrull?  Since Captain Marvel Skrulls can be a thing in the Cinematic Marvel Universe.

One thing about comics stories is that it's easily possible that the backstory you started with could easily shift in unexpected ways.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:05, Tue 25 June 2019.

Bloodrager IN a way you are correct Time frames between Chapters would and could allow for Characters to know each other better, But not necessarily everyone all depending on what each does on a daily basis. Mind that being said Blood is a little more complex then most with his limited way of Modern knowledge (for lack of better terms) So it could take some time to sort through his multiple facets.

Dee Dee I hear ya, Dark is right, Options are available, But again you know how flexible i am. :)

It's up to you really. Since we just started this chapter this could be a good time.


and again sorry for repeating but apologies on the delay's in postings

Just realized if this is a three month time skip Taskmistress doesn't remember Laredo or the Maggia.

If two or three months have passed, one thing Kevin will have been doing is delving as much as he's able into the occult/supernatural.  He still sees Belial/D'Spayre as the worst threat to the team and he very much wants to find a counter to that threat.

Bloodrager and the rest of the team would probably become fairly familiar with Kevin's Darkforce powers and know that he can use them to fly via wings, shoot blasts of energy, teleport, create a field of Darkness, create a skin-tight force field around himself, create simple, non-moving, non-curved objects made of Darkforce and see in the dark.

In terms of skills and knowledge, Bloodrager would likely classify Kevin as a Rogue/Thief.

What Kevin won't share a lot of (unless it's somehow pertinent) is his past.  Comments he's made indicate that he's done work for a shadowy influential man named Devereaux (no known relation to Deedee) and that his first disastrous run-in with Belial occurred in Miami.

In terms of switching characters, I've found it's better to run to something instead of away from something.  There's a person I knew from paper/pencil/dice RPGs.  Great GM.  Excellent storyteller.  Fair rules arbiter.  Great at characterization.  But our group came to dread those times when someone else was the GM and he was a player.

Because he just could not seem to light on a permanent character.  Two, three maybe even one session after bringing in a character, he'd switch it out for something else.  So, our party ended up as Kevin the Rogue, Steve the Mage, Bob the Cleric and Placeholder X.

Ohnoohnoohnonononono

The next time your friends run a game instead of the usual GM, build the revolving characters issue into the premise.  Kevin, Steve, and Bob are given a contract from a mercenary company to train up their new recruits... one at a time :)

In reply to Mortis (msg # 139):

It's all kind of moot now.  He moved about 1000 miles away a couple years ago and the group broke up.  One reason I'm on RPoL is that I no longer have a live group to game with.  Also, I have full-time job which screws with my schedule.

Ok as a side task, Since we're starting to clear up some things If there are Side quests / training your character are attempting to do, Study, Discuss, any bonds you think character should have then we can take care of that in PM's

Just let me know. Kevin yes i did make a note about the Magic aspect for Kevin,


I am trying to stay on top but currently failing.
Work has been booming and starting now to work on a project on expanding our warehouse we have had VP's come over to discuss options and what not. this is the busiest I have been here and it isn't quite slowing down.
I am not giving up on the game, But my time is lacking and I hate that some side development for the characters is suffering.
Thank you for your patience and sticking around.

I promise to keep trying to have you guy's entertained.

I'm sure that Bloodrager would be game to try (emphasis on try) to help Kevin with working on learning magic, but given how odd his own is plus his illiteracy I don't know much use he would be for the project.

In reply to Bloodrager (msg # 142):

That might be interesting.  I will say that Kevin is probably unsuited to work Bloodrager's type of magic.  He's probably just too self-centered to channel clerical magic.  And I don't mean that he's selfish, exactly, though he can be.  It's just that Kevin tends to rely on his own strengths and skills.  The idea of appealing to some god/force/power/etc to do something for him would be alien to Kevin.

During downtime, Alison will try to see what else she can get Kevin to believe, always approaching him with a totally straight face:


~ "Hey.  The socks they issue us here -  I can't wear them.   I can only wear green socks.  My religion mandates that."


~ "The magical pantyhose that gives me superspeed has been shredded!   I don't have any more powers!"


~ "I flew so fast, I ended up in Asgard.  I met Odin.  And, he wants me to lead this team - so you'll have to step down!"

Just kidding!!    I know, when you type something out, it lacks voice tone, facial expression, etc.     Sometimes intent or meaning isn't so obvious.  ^_^

In reply to Aurora (msg # 144):

Why am I suddenly reminded of Argh!Yle, the sock counterpart to Dr. Doom over in the DC Universe?

I guess so:

https://tinyurl.com/y6h9p35o


I'm unsure what the bridge between Dr. Doom and socks is, but it made sense to someone!

"Well, we're paying you a pretty good salary out of our billions, so buy some green dye and go at it."



"Oh, that's too bad," Kevin said, teleporting away and then returning with a plunger.  "I guess that makes you team housekeeper then.  BTW, Darwin tried to use the toilet while she was an elephant again.  It's pretty clogged.  Go get it."



"Huh.  Well, I was just talking to Jesus a couple minutes ago and he totally wants me to be in charge.  Tell you what, while they dicker about that stuff offstage, we'll just keep things as they until they tell us both differently.""

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 147):

At least Odin is real.

Yes, exactly!      You're trumped, Darkstar!!   So here's that plunger!


Happy 4th to all --   all fellow americaners, at least.


Yes...soon it's going to be time to gaze skyward, at the same displays we see every year, and go 'Ooh, aahhhh..' as if it were all brand new, and exciting...

Taskmistress described the holiday quite well.

It's also Scare-The-Poop-Out-Of-Your-Werewolf Day...

I prefer to see the British side of it, so Happy Good Riddance You Bloody Colonials Day.

LMAO you guys are awesome!!

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 150):

Yep, 4th of July pretty much amounts to psychological warfare on animals.  That was my cat last night.   And pretty much every pet I've ever had..

Opinions time: Could someone who feels nothing no joy no sorrow no anger no fear no despair no pain no pleasure go insane? Keeping in mind they have live their whole life this way so they have no frame of reference . It's not like it was stripped from them and they realized what they lost.

In reply to Taskmistress (msg # 155):

I'd say that they already are insane at that point.  For one thing consider that since they can't feel those emotions/sensations then they also can't really have empathy for those who do.  They lack a basic shared experience with the rest of humanity.

On another message board somebody posted this gem:



Roll that around in your skull for a bit and ponder the utter lack of consideration within it.  The person you describe, Taskmistress, is this to the power of a 1000.  He's probably either a psychopath, severely autistic or both.

Seems we're missing Spidey again.

We often stereotypically think of psychopaths as raging, scheming destroyers or killers, as so often depicted in movies.

But, as I understand (and I'm no psych major, though I play one here) the crux of it is being amoral and unable - I mean like completely - to empathize with others.

They aren't quite unfeeling -  they still feel things such as anger, resentment, envy and jealousy.    That's why some of them are dangerous.

Anyway, a severe emotional cutoff doesn't = stability, whatever it's cause.    It's a detachment or mask for other underlying issues.      So, it is entirely possible for someone like that to 'go insane.'      Which probably means something has overwhelmed them, or punched through their defenses, to trigger what lays beneath.

Someone like that needs professional help, of some kind.     Psychopaths and similar are often intelligent, talented, or even gifted people, in some way.    Like anyone, they deserve a chance to be helped, not labeled or reviled.   But, you do have to be careful in dealings with them.

In reply to William Naslund (msg # 157):

His Rmail told me he's taking a break for a bit.  Figure plot-wise we can leave him at the base and if he comes back he can just take the second Quinjet to join the rest of us (even if he can't fly it, figure Jocasta can autopilot it for him).

On a semi-related topic, I really love Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider Man.  I can imagine Kevin telling him, "You know, there's an increasingly good chance that I'm gonna pat you on the head in a condescending manner."

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Agreed Kevin I think Tom Holland is doing a great Job, I think however having the Marvel writers helping to develop the character is a big boost, Not sure he'd be in the same boat if he was still only Sony.

And Thanks for the heads up I never got a reply back from from his R-mail so will have him on Hiatus for now.



Darwin, Nice! Making me miss table top RPG!! lol.

I'm currently torn, I want to push the game forward but with the lack of time I have for now don't want to leave action sequences pending lol.
Will try and post up soon and work on Spiderman's absence.

*discovers the existence of real life heavy metal knitting events*

Take your time boss

I already posted Kevin reacting to him leaving for some very deliberately vague  "family emergency" which could be anything from Aunt April/Cousin May/Sister June having a health scare to his boss, "Karl Kolchak Kavanaugh" (who, despite his KKK initials isn't even a little bit racist) wanting more work from him to the Scorpion threatening his dorm room.

Figure the character will be back when whatever it is gets dealt with (ie, when the player comes back from hiatus) and since there's two Quinjet he can get in on the adventure whenever that happens.

Hello all, apologies on being MIA, Our company has recently bought out another company and the workload has increased to a point where I barely have time for myself in a day. Being put on multiple projects for work With constant out of town visitors and internal reorganization I tried all I could but I can no longer find time to give any of my games. Being responsible sucks sometimes lol and this is one of those times.

I had great ideas for the game and the future, with the team starting to mesh so much better. But sadly I need my focus on life and work.

I don't want to leave you all in a bind. So if any one want to take over I would be more then happy to turn the reigns over to someone else?

If you want, or no one wants to grab command, you could always hiatus the game and see where life takes you. You may find you have time in a few months or something. Just a suggestion. Or someone could take over for a bit until you're ready to jump back in.

That being said, I'm actually away for a few days. GenCon. See everyone next week!
This message was last edited by the player at 14:21, Wed 31 July 2019.

You've already gone on longer than most --   life happens, no sweat!

An indefinite hiatus is one option.


Personally, I can't offer to GM a whole game -    but, this game is already very free form.    I could see a situation where, the lines betwixt GM and player are less defined, and everyone contributes something with npcs, events, plot elements, etc.

There could be some downsides to going that way, maybe not so workable in practice.    But just another thought.    If it's over for now, well, was fun while it lasted.

Whatever the result, thanks for the fun game ST :)

Best luck with your life and work!

No Problem. I will leave the game up, I am not going to remove anything.
Who know what's what later on and yes pretty much free form so lol who need a Naslund :)

haha... I will try to check in from time to time.

I'm cool with hiatus for a couple-three months if need be.  I'd be cool if someone like Darwin, who is a professional, published RPG writer, took over the game for a while.  Anything that lets me keep playing is good by me.

Time was, time is, time shall be.

Hiatuses happen, certainly.

Sure, but one thing occurs to me is that this game is still freeform.  So we can still play some.  We don't need to worry about rules and dice rolls.  We have some idea of what's going on with this story so we can just go from there.

Well...if, IF, I run something it would be in the interim and separate from Sym's game. I couldn't do his game justice to his plans, or his style.

What I would do, in this hypothetical situation, is have new characters made (or supply a few that I have, um...lying around) in a different setting that, once again in this hypothetical situation, would be set in a game world that would be locked behind an NDI due to the nature of projects I may or may not be working on.

I hope this was confusing enough.

Not nearly confusing enough.
Would your setting be able to survive my ideas of a character?

Could I still play this version of Kevin.  That gas station bathroom he went to on the trip to NC had a toilet that opened an inter-dimensional gateway when it was flushed.

For that matter can't everyone who wishes to keep their characters?  Super-types are always running into weird situations or getting transported to unusual settings or times.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:23, Sat 10 Aug 2019.

Bloodrager: I think the setting is robust enough to take strange characters well enough. It's more balance issues than concepts. Trying to keep the group balanced so no one feels like they're too powerful, or just a sidekick, is more the concern than anything else.

Darkstar: I'd prefer to go with new characters honestly. There's a few balance issues with the current characters that would concern me, and I honestly don't know what your character sheets look like for this game, as I don't know how Sym does his behind the curtain magic.

How about if we send you our most recent character write-ups?

I understand starting fresh with new character, but it feels a little bit like we'd be abandoning this game doing that.  I really don't want to abandon this game.  I like the players and the characters.  And, honestly, one of my peeves about gaming is people constantly pushing a restart button instead of dealing with whatever difficulties are afflicting a game.

In reply to Darkstar (msg # 177):

If it is not the same setting, than why the same characters? I don't see anything wrong with having two games running in the same RPoL game forum.

I don't know about wrong, but it'd be hard.  Since Darwin doesn't have GM authority, she couldn't add characters to the Cast.  So, we'd have to post as our characters being differing characters.  Kevin Bloom posting as Devin Moon.  Bloodrager as Snotsadder, etc.

Basically if we're playing in this specific game's forum, it'd be a whole lot simpler to just use the characters that already exist.

No harder than if our characters were playing roles in the game. At least for me.

To be fair, if one of us was taking over the game we'd need to be given higher level access anyway to be able to open new threads.

That being said, I could open a new game so people don't need to remember to switch which character they're posting as.

Either works for me.

*ponders an evil compact disc as a character, playing music to communicate*

As far as I know, this is/was a totally free from game --  I don't believe there were any behind the scenes mechanics that Symbol used.

Normally, in this sort of game, the GM makes a call based simply on what best serves the scene.   Not on character "stats" or such.       At least, everything I know about my own character is what's in the cast box. (which is more than some others chose to make visible)

But, I understand where you're coming from Darwin --   personally, I'd be up for the playtest thing with some new character, if you were to do that.

I also understand where DS is coming from -- not wanting to abandon a character that alot of work has gone into.       I suppose that, we could continue to write here in free form / GM-less mode, and do the playtest game as something separate.    Though that might well be overkill.

I'm all for a stand-in GM, but that person should really want to do it. The GM must have fun, too.    Games fail fast otherwise.

We could "sort of" post new threads - but they'd have to be "private messages" that would be posted to everyone.

I'm cool with doing play testing with Darwin and using a new character for that.  However, that seems like something that requires its own game.  I don't see that working with us trying to piggyback it onto this game - especially since Darwin isn't a GM here.

Yup no behind the scenes at all... *Whistles*
This message was last edited by the player at 02:49, Mon 12 Aug 2019.

Well, I'm willing to try something for a bit. I've got a few choices, so let's see what appeals to people.

In this setting, superhumans have been becoming more frequent in society. Opinions about supers tend toward the negative but not mob mentality. The Government is looking into registrations and laws governing superhuman activity, but so far there's nothing widespread. There's a few anti-supers groups out there, and more and more supervillains are emerging every day.
And 'Rager, human characters please. For these scenarios I have, I've not really got any evil appliances spots.



1. The Junior League. A school style setting for teens who are learning full control. Light on the world saving (although a group of our teens once saved Godzilla).
2. The Dogs of War. The players are joining up with John Havok, a known superpowered terrorist, to be his Dogs of War, striking out against the corrupt parts of the system that seek to experiment/enslave or otherwise take advantage of the burgeoning superhumans.
3. The Gladiators. A team of superhumans assembled to fight against the superpowered villain group known as the Syndicate, led by the enigmatic Chessman.

While I like 'light on the world saving', I'm really not big on playing teens these days.

#2, the Dogs of War, seems to be the one that sounds more interesting of the remaining scenarios.

2 is interesting

All good options, but I agree that #2 sounds like the best.

#2 seems like a good choice, though I could work with either of the others as well.

I'd be cool with 2.

Looks like the Dogs of War it is.

I'd set it up tonight but I'm in the tail end of a business meeting right now and exhausted. Tomorrow I'm out doing some business related stuff too, so might have it tomorrow night, not sure.

By end of week I'm sure it'll be there. I'll post the link and then we can start doing characters.

Game has been created.  link to another game

No threads yet, just the NDA.

Should we start reporting in there, with signed (as best we can manage) NDAs?

Anyone who wants to play can go ahead and get their NDA in. I'll be putting up a character thread and OOC boards and the like as soon as I can. Tonight is migraine night, and I'm alone with my son for the evening since his other parents are out at a birthday party, so I can't really do much until tomorrow.

Have fun.

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I miss this game a lot.

So do I.

You know the Dogs of War game: link to another game

is still going.  Slowly, but it's going.  We were looking forward to whatever weird character concept you were going to bring to life.  You're still listed as Subject A if you decide to come join in the fun.

It's not a demanding game post-wise at all.  There's been whole months that have passed without IC posts.

And this would be good timing -  we're in process of adding another two characters.

Awww i was going to be a villain in a secret plot to be revealed later.

Isn't that kind of every character you played here?  Are you Subject E, then?

Oh, and is that other game I was in where you GMed still running.  It kind of stopped at one point so I dropped it from my sticky, but if it's still viable, I'd be glad to get back in.

I really should shake off the cobwebs.

And the cobwebs are well and truly shaken off.  I know I'm having fun as Tronada.

Still miss this game.  It was fun.

A bit late to note this, but I realized that this exact thing happened to Clint Barton on the first episode of the Hawkeye show last year.

Wow, a blast from the past :)

I did enjoy Hawkeye, btw.

Happy New Year everyone (in a few days time).