The city will turn out to be one of those oddities that has every possible location. It should be between a desert and an ocean with a river running through it. There'll be a swamp next to the NASA launch site, just down the coast the from ancient ruins and accompanying archaeological expedition. The night life will be jumping what with the concerts in the amphitheater, games on the olympic grounds, football, baseball, soccer, tennis, lacrosse, and jai alai matches. This, along with the amusement park next to the circus, will keep the masses entertained. But it won't be all fun and games considering the huge industrial park, world-class research facilities at the university, military installations (both for training and defense), seaport warehouse, and rail yard.
So, whatever city you decide to start in it should have all that.

Heh, well Houston has a lot of that actually.

As long as the night life is good, flashy and loud. ;)


Sorry about my delay been a rough few days.

To ease into things, I will require that the characters have some shared history and are already known to work together.

Kewl :)

I am up for talking with anyone to start the process. :)

Me too.

So do we all chat one-on-one (probably in PMs), or do it here and simply discuss where we are as a team.


For those who recognise Archer from another game, the concept remains, but the skin has changed.
As we are now set in 2022, this Archer is a scientist.   I am going with the 'brilliant scientist with Powers' trope.
I welcome any and all ideas that might link Doctor Archer to your own characters.

I am fine with discussing things here. Unless of course it is something the player wants kept secret.

As for Rock Star his powers ended up being light and sound based with a some size change thrown in. So he is larger than life, showy and loud.

I was working on being one of those self-taught inventors in comics, getting his powers from a lab accident/sabotage. Happy to adjust to make it bigger/more eventful.

Hmm...maybe we can start with a throw-away villain to defeat as a good point for all of us to meet?

Example:

The Mole Man and his troops invade the surface and we all end up working together to send him packing! ;)

Awesome ... I assume you mean, we construct a background event based on this event that brought us together?

Lets first ask, if Moleman suddenly invaded the surface world with his troops, tunnelling a way up (ala Underminer in Incredibles), how would we each respond.

I'll start:   Archer would grown large, and attempt to pick up the tunnelling device, and shove it back down the hole, to block the way and inhibit the troops following it.

Rock Star, what size do you grow too, please?  or is it a permanent increase?
Archer can grow and shrink 4 grades, for reference ... down to Microscopic, and up to 24' high.

Duelist would have leaped in to confront the troops, keeping them occupied and distracted with jabs from her sword and dodging their blows.

Exactly :)



Kestrel would be hard to see as she turns to Air, being seen mostly as a shadow flying around the battlefield and using blasts of air against any moleman who had cover from the sky.  She would manipulate the weather so that a Lightning storm was happening over the location of the moleman tunnel, sending lightning down from the sky to strike any moleman who got past the mole machine.

Oh, awesome.   That bitch was BAD!   I love seeing historic figures like she referenced and remembered in gaming.

In reply to Archer (msg # 28):



He can only grow and it is set at factor 2. So he get 12' tall.

He probably was happy to help Archer with shoving the tunneling machine back into its hole. All the while with a brilliant flashy light show and some loud music, something like his own version of Cum on Feel the Noise. blasting the molemen.

At some point in the fight, Kestrel will notice another mole machine coming out of the ground and will fly over to anyone who is currently not fighting, "We have another mole machine coming up!  To the South east about 100 yards.  I could use some back up!"

Looking to Rock Star and Duellist to deal with this infestation,  Archer would offer her hand, as she began shrinking back down, to the flying Kestrel, “Can you get me there fast?”

As Kestrel (assumably) took Archer’s hand, Archer continued to shrink to a tiny ‘handful’ size … for easy transport.

As Kestrel came in close to the new threat, Archer called out, “Fast Ball me”.    Thrown at the machine, Archer again increased in size to ‘giant’ proportions … slamming shoulder first into the emerging metal beast.

Kestrel was about to explain to Archer that she couldn't carry anyone while flying when the woman shrunk down to a tiny doll that fit in her hand.  Tilting her head sideways, she focused her wind power out through her hand to lift the woman into the air and float her as she turned back into air.  "okay, never done this before so lets see if this work!"  By some miracle she keeps Archer floating above her hand as she flew the woman toward the other mole machine, although it took lots of focus (power stunt, might not be able to do that ingame ;) ).

"Fast Ball special coming up," Kestrel acknowledged, her voice sounding very windy as she directed her wind power to send the tiny doll toward the mole machine, knowing the woman can grow to be a giant.  Hoping that Archer times things right as she then sends blasts of lightning out of the sky and into groups of mole men charging out from behind the machine as Archer slammed into in her giant form.

Strike has bowed out due to time constraints. Game still open for new people, I'll try to get us started in the next few days.

Hello all, just added. No clue who I will be yet, but I wanted to say hi.

In reply to No.1 (msg # 37):

Hello :)

Hi Kesrel! Care to fill me in one what we have and what we might not have? I like to be different from what is already here if possible.

I don't see the tables, what am I missing? I clicked on 'powers' and it tool me to the dice roller.

Well I rolled five sets of abilities, and my stats. I think my numbers are good, but I feel like I need more info before I can proceed, i.e. what my rolls mean.

Curious, are we going with an all female theme? I am good with that, just curious.

Hello No 1, here is the current breakdown:

Kestrel: weather control with focus on air and wink
Archer: size control, scientist
Duelist: melee specialist, face person
Rock Star: light show and melee

That is all we know at the moment.

We are starting to work out how we meet, with a fight scene against the molemen.  Completely player controlled, no GM to make us follow the rules!  Using it as a way to introduce our characters to each other.

Need to download the Villains and Vigilantes rule book, you can find it online as a PDF.