My notes from the game are available in a 144 page pdf document. (as per christof's request) I'll remind you that this isn't a pretty "everything is laid out clear" format but rather a collection of notes and background that I made pre-during-post game sessions.

I'll be backing up this community again soon.

Officially, this game is over and this community is closed. Although if you want to add anything (what happened to your character after etc) go ahead. Closed only means that the game is over.

It was great playing with you guys. See you next year when "Eden Three" is up and running (or sooner for spys or paranoia).

Cheers,

Your GM.

I bring you Galacta!

http://www.comicvine.com/galacta/29-59459/

bwahahahaha

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/06/21/what_to_do_if_your_child_has_superpowers/?page=1

small extract:

Q. My child can control the weather and summon tornadoes at a moment’s notice. This makes discipline a challenge.

A. Discipline of a super-powered child is a complex issue. First, try to explore the limits of his or her powers, and use some common sense. Can your child control magnetic fields from across a room? If so, place all knives in the attic. Has your toddler ever ensnared you in spider-webbing that can only be removed with great effort? Explain (sternly) that superpowers are a “sometimes” behavior. And do limit their super-activities; I have found that insisting that they only use their powers for one hour a day is a good way to teach a child

Lawyer vs the Superhero

http://succeedinevil.com/2009/06/16/htsietn-chapter-51-the-death-of-culture/ (Excelsior is an asshole.)

http://succeedinevil.com/2009/06/17/htsietn-chapter-52-a-score-to-settle/ (What to do?)

http://succeedinevil.com/2009/06/18/htsietn-chapter-53-serving-a-process/ (Gotcha)

Somebody after Fishstick's heart, eh?

Here are my notes from last session.... TELL ME WHAT YOUR CHARACTERS ARE/WERE UP TO.

July 1 - Sunday

Supernova seen talking to Pat Harvard and Sam's father. at the appt.

Nightstriker gets a vision about daddy telling napalm to rain fire from the sky.

Fire in sub-ground lair kills a goup of heros (ninja turtles).

Koi man, ninja turtles, murdered; figure out that the people being killed have invites to the tryouts.

President dead, super or conspiracy of supers did it, not caught, VP takes over.

[note napalm would freak out if Timmy dies]

Sam kills Nova as he is masterbating, throws him off building with a note about being a pedophile, Sam rescues Max(imum) sidekick and leaves him with Janie.

We are having a game on Tuesday if the sky does not fall. We are running short on time (Anc's game begins July 7th?) so there will be less time in each session for exploring every possible option in discussion during game time.

Please get any point expendatures that need to be discussed to me ASAP.

Also, you can use this space to get back up to speed on what everyone was doing three weeks ago when the game went on hiatus.

I'll leave you with a picture of Fishstick Edward having lunch:

http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/3353159.html

This reminds me of someone:

http://succeedinevil.com/2009/05/01/htsietn-chapter-32-enlisting-the-little-savage/

Audio podcast.

This video demonstrates the usage of the combat bicycling skill.

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/04/21/i-love-this-2/

Seriously cool.

Heroic Medicine. by *saturninus on deviantART

From the replies I recieved it looks like we WILL have a game next week. As I said in the email, I don't have time to prep so this will be in your court.

Come with an idea of what you want your character to be doing: conversations with NPCs, group planning, theorizing, backstory, colour, side activities, etc.

Game will start in Dr. Paradise's warehouse with the regen tank, the clone of Beta/Chase, and a pissed off (not at you) Dr. Paradise.

"Let's go over this again, you were in the back of the truck when it tipped over, you battled the "villians", and then...?" asked San Won patiently, again.

"I took the President home," said Sunshine.

He was still wearing his yellow spandex uniform but had taken off his mask after Dr. Goodtouch had referred to him as Latex-boy. Sunshine had explained that his mask was plastic not latex and it was a face mask so it didn't go *there*.

"You took the President home," repeated San Won.

"Yes."

"And where is home?"

"The Oval Office," answered Sunshine proudly.

"The Oval Office," San Won repeated.

"Repeating the stupid back to him isn't going to make him see the stupid is stupid," said Dr. Goodtouch. He had become bored of the conversation several iterations ago and was now entertaining himself.

San Won sighed. The doctor was, of course, right. "You may go Sunshine. Please check yourself into the clinic for your post-incident evaluation."

"Yes, sir." He hesitated. "Did I do something wrong?"

"Everything will be fine, Sunshine. You performed as we have come to expect," said San Won.

"From a meat turnip," finished Dr. Goodtouch.

Reassured, Sunshine left.

"Couldn't you have boosted his IQ just a little bit?" San Won asked the doctor.

"Sure. I have a first class training program for that. It's called kindergarden. He failed," snarked Dr. Goodtouch. "You asked for big and powerful. I gave you big and powerful."

"It's just that... what is that?" San Won indicated the white plasticine substance that Dr. Goodtouch was fashioning into various shapes.

"Play-dough," said Dr. Goodtouch.

"Play-dough," repeated San Won.

"Do you want me to shove it up your ass?"

"No. We have work to do, maybe salvage something from this mess. Did you examine the presidential clone?"

"Oxygen depravation, possibly brain damage, minor abrasions and cuts. When we wake this one up it will seem like he has alzheimer's. Nobody should notice," said Dr. Goodtouch. "You realize this is the last clone we have."

"You can make more."

"Maybe, maybe not. The regen chamber he was in was damaged and the one containing the test subject is missing. That leaves one working chamber here."

"Can't you repair it?"

"We need parts... from Paradise Labs."

"Make her an offer. Anything."

"We tried too. Our agents, even the undercover ones, are all in the hospital suffering from sudden and unexpected holes. We've been getting parts through Futures for the past five years but that went belly up with Roman's stupidity. We tried to grab the parts from his warehouse but that backfired with that fuckwit Nova screwing up. That leaves... one working chamber containing the last test clone and one broken chamber with a brain damaged presidential clone." He paused. "That describes humanity quite well don't you think? Brain damaged and still able to shoot its self in the foot."

"Chase."

"Don't get sentimental."

"He's my friend."

"He's test clone #74-CxKB1, a blank. Not even upgraded."

"There must be someway to get the parts. Somebody who can buy, beg, or steal them from Paradise." San Won rubbed his temples. "There has got to be a way."

Dr. Goodtouch hated humanity. It wasn't the cynical yet endearing hate that looks good on television. It was the type of hate that served champagne at funerals. Dr. Goodtouch never should have been a doctor but his considerable trust fund had been tied to his contributing positively to the greater good and "doctor" had been the least repulsive career on the list.

Dr. Goodtouch's parents had been philanthropists.

They had also been sadists.

He hated them.

Needless to say, his bedside manner left a lot to be desired and Dr. Goodtouch had problems staying employed. When the Church of Ultimate Freedom had found him he was working as a coroner and fighting his parent's lawyers for possession of his trust fund. He had been losing. They had offered him the chance to elevate humanity beyond its base instincts and into the next plane of evolution. It was the chance of a life time to make a difference in the world they had assured him.

It was a mountain of money on a silver platter topped with a big red button labeled "exterminate".

He'd taken the job and the ensuing years had been the happiest of his life. His creations still had moronic human brains thanks to the idiots who volunteered for his tender care, but some day he would overcome that limitation. Someday humanity would be forced to take the next step and grow the fuck up. It made him happy, and it made his employers happy.

Except that, right now, he was not happy.

Someone was killing his creations.

Something must be done about it. He looked at the assistant he'd been ignoring for the past twenty minutes.

"Get me San Won," he ordered.

"Uh, okay but..." The poor assistant grabbed desperately for the doctor's attention. "... but there was an irregularity in your latest requisition. I need you to confirm..."

"What?"

"Five pounds of C4?"

"For medicinal purposes."

"Medicinal?"

"I'm going to shove it up somebody's ass and make myself feel better."

Draco and I were discussing the Ratcatcher world today and we came up with a short game scenario that I want to share with you guys:

- Takes place before all of the previous Ratcatcher games while the Ratcatchers are still in existence and the fey are still secret.

- There is a niche market for people who know both Ratcatcher and Prince based law systems and for freelance duelists.

- In a city (Ottawa or more likely Montreal) there is a pair of ex-Lone Wolves (Ratcatchers) who go into business as an Advocate/Duelist-Trainer team and who manage a team of Duelists (ie the players).

- A duelist (independent fey) from the company is killed/murdered and the company is in the uncomfortable position of having to figure out what happened and why FAST because there is plenty of questions as to whether or not justice will be enacted (and by who... Ratcatchers, Fey, someone else?). This is particularily bad for the company because: a) your coworker/friend has been killed, b) your honour has been besmirched, c) nobody is going to hire (at least at good rates) a company who can't keep its own safe, d) this might only be the beginning, and e) not doing something may be setting you up for future problems with other duelists and fey.

- This would be a 3-4 session game (3 sessions +1 for overflow) where the PCs are combat based characters who are out of their element for an investigation but have to do it anyway. Independent fey (not attached to a prince), were, humans (aware of the fey), and warlocks (any race) would be eligible PCs.

Thoughts?

The video I was talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20QBe43tyVM


At least somewhat amusing.

A message from Edward:

Gentlemen.

I've been thinking about what happened on the rooftop. I listened to the radio and it seems the President, although shot, will recover. I hope that remains the case, as the report was pretty garbled.

Anyway, I've been thinking about how this *looks*. We were probably seen fleeing the scene, where someone shot someone else (whom the more I think about it, the more likely WAS some law officer, although I haven't heard about it on the radio yet either). So best case scenario, we assisted a fugitive escape. Worse case scenario, we will be seen as active participants in this assassination attempt as we set up an effective distraction on the roof, allowing the shooter on the ground to get his shot.

What this means is that we may be soon be wanted men. As a result... your costumes... you probably won't be able to wear them again.

sorry folks.

"Hey, get a load of this one... I should be in the Protectors because I have amazing secret powers that I can't reveal because they are secret."

"Sounds like one for the circular file."

"We aren't that lucky. He gave complete contact information so we have to check him out."

"Lucky us."

"What's your score?"

"Five invisibilities, 23 super strengths, six mentalists, and orgasmo-man."

"Give him to Betty. She enjoys making them cry."

"Here's one for you... Espresso. Who calls themselves Espresso?"

"Sir. We just received confirmation, she failed. The backup did the job."

The younger man bowed to his leader as he spoke. The older man didn't look up from the television news report.

"And he failed."

"Sir?"

The older man increased the volume on the television so that the younger man could hear it.

"...doctors say the President will make a full recovery..."

He turned off the tv and looked at his underling.

"That doesn't look dead to me."

"I'm sorry, Sir. The reports said..."

"I don't care what the reports said. I want to know why he is so hard for you to kill. This continued failure is not acceptable."

"Sir, he may be..."

"He's not!" the older man snapped, showing anger for the first time. "Now get out of my sight until you have found the source of your failure."

"Yes, Sir." The younger man bowed and left leaving his leader alone with the silent tv.

Quietly to himself, or perhaps to someone far away who didn't need to hear the words in order to be afraid of them, he said, "Daughter, your betrayals are becoming irritating. Have you forgotten how to fear me? Do I need to remind you again?" He scowled. "I will have obedience in my children."

Hello folks

Nightstriker and I have discussed the assassination plot on the president, and how it may be stopped (NOTE TO NSA AGENTS: JUST A ROLEPLAYING GAME).

Basically, it boils down to 4 locations. There are many more buildings of course, but it helps streamline discussion/thinking about the situation.

The square: Where the president is talking and the crowd is watching.

Building A: Where the shooter(s?) will be

Building B: Other building(s) with a clear view of the president, where secret agents/police may or may not be. Some of these will also have a clear view of building A, and some will have a view of building C.

Building C: A building with NO view of the president/square, but a good view of building A. This is where most of the party will wait and observe building A to intervene when needed. It's important it's not a building with a view of the president, since the party really doesn't want to do anything to the president, and because such a building will not be watched by the secret service

So, that's the location.

Sam should climb up the wall of building A and keep out of sight, a few feet below the roof, ready to intervene. Brody and Magnus, who both can "fly", will wait and watch on building C. Ian's character (drawing a blank, sorry), will be ferried from building C to A by Magnus. Edward *might* be ferried by Brody IF Brody can manage it. Other wise, unless Magnus can handle a lot of people at once, he will have to infiltrate building A, and wait near the roof access point.

It might be useful to have someone in the square, to see when the president shows up, but really, we should be able to *hear* him due to crowd reaction, loudspeakers etc.

Now the basic plan goes like this:

1: Get in position.
2a: Intervention against an "obvious foe"
2b: Intervention against a "sneaky foe"
3: Get out.

1: is more or less worked out. 3: we need to talk about, but I think we can come up with something.

For step 2, we need to know what the bad guy(s) will do, and it really boils down to 2 versions.

In 2a, it's very obvious that the bad guy is the bad guy(s). He has somehow disabled secret service agents/police on building A and B without raising the alarm (this should be visible to us), and lines up for the shot, at which point we intervene. This is really the best scenario. We go mano a mano with the bad guy(s), we save the day etc. We get to capture/kill the bad guy(s), which may lead valuable intel on to whom is behind this etc etc. AND because it's an obvious scenario, it will be obvious to the authorities what happened, so even if the escape goes sour, we aren't in TOO much trouble.

2b is a freaking headache. The bad guy looks just like a good guy! He may be a traitorous secret service agent/police. Or he has a near perfect disguise looking just like one. It will not be obvious to other officials that this man is a bad guy, and it won't be to us either. In fact, 2b looks just like "2a that hasn't started yet"!. So he gets in position, and no one does anything. Until he shoots, no one knows he's a bad guy. If we attack him, WE will look like the bad guys. And if he is a traitor, or if he has a really great disguise, the bad guy will easily be able to claim he was just doing his job until we showed up.

This is going to look really bad for us, and all the authorities present (like, other snipers on other roofs, the protectors, etc) will assume that we are there to do something bad - like shoot the president! So instead of the fight being us vs the bad guy(s), it's us vs everyone else... not good. Unlike scenario 2a, were it is likely we can catch the bad guy (ie do more than just stop the shooting) AND get away with it, in scenario 2b it is very unclear to me if we can do anything more than simply stop the shooting - and as I have explained previously, a simple flair gun will do that just fine, as would a call to the protectors.

Nighstriker thinks that in a scenario 2b, we should still go in, as we might be able to stop him, and get some intel of his uncontentious body (because we really, really shouldn't be killing him!!!). I think the odds of achieving anything beyond stopping the shooting itself are quite low.

I hope this post isn't too long and will stimulate your noggins, so we can crack 2b.

cheers,

P.S. I have all sorts of lawyer "pre-maneuvres" that Edward will do to help cover our asses, but honestly, we shouldn't rely on those!

So what is the end cost for activating a defensive maneuver?
ex: block, dodge, dive for cover, martial block, martial dodge.