- Kid Blink
- Feb 24, 2013
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Of course, the whole point of
a Doomsday Machine is lost if
you KEEP IT A SECRET!
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Come one, come all! Ladies and Gentlemen, tykes and kiddo’s alike, step right up and come see the freak show!
“Wow, really? You’ve already beaten me, now you’re going to humiliate me?”
Now, now, Pyrocrow, if you’re just going to be hanging around anyway, we may as well have some fun, right?
“UGHHHH, puns?!”
No need to get, hung up on it, eh? Hoho, haha!
“Dude, I don’t like you. Like, not even in that way we’re not supposed to like each other ‘cause we’re on different sides of the law, I just want you to know that I, personally, as a person, really, really don’t like you.”
There’s no need for such harsh words! Why, if you hadn’t been trying to rob the bank here, I would never have had to put a damper on your fun in the first place! Hahaha! *tosses another extinguisher pellet up into the air and catches it*
Oh, lighten up, birdbrain! It’s not that bad. Look, the donut munchers will be here in like five minutes! I’ll leave them a nice note to make sure to hose you down before they slap on your cuffs and you can sing in your brand new cage for as long as you like! Haha!
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Hero NameJapes
The Protégé
Real Name: Jordan Jafferies
Look: Man, Black, Athletic body, Loose clothes, Colorful costume
Abilities:
Shared Ability: Weapons and gadgets
Your Own Ability: telepathy/telekinesis (known only to Japes and Punchline)
My Mentor’s Ability: Impossible fighting skills
Labels
Danger -1
Freak +1
Savior +1
Superior +2
Mundane 0
Protege moves:
Been reading the files:
You’ve learned about the superhuman world through your mentor’s resources. When you first encounter an important superpowered phenomenon (your call), roll + Superior. On a hit, tell the team one important detail you’ve learned from your studies. The GM will tell you what, if anything, seems different from what you remember. On a 10+, ask the GM a follow-up question; they will answer it honestly. On a miss, the situation is well outside your base of knowledge; the GM will tell you why.
Venting frustration:
When you directly engage while you are Angry, you can roll + the Label your mentor denies and clear Angry.
Be mindful of your surroundings:
When you assess the situation before entering into a fight, you may ask one additional question, even on a miss.
Mentor
Punchline
Embodies: Mundane
Denies: Superior
Mentor Resources
Communicators, A chem lab, Security systems
MOMENT OF TRUTH
The moment that you show who you really are: your mentor, or something different. You can do whatever your mentor could do and more. You can do the incredible, even the things they always failed to accomplish. Of course, they’re not going to see you the same way, no matter which path you choose…
TEAM MOVES
When you share a triumphant celebration with someone, ask them if you’ve been a good leader or effective teammate. If they say yes, your mentor loses Influence over you and you mark potential. If they say no, your mentor gains Influence over you, and you take +1 forward on using the Label your mentor embodies.
When you share a vulnerability or weakness with someone, tell them a secret about your mentor (including your feelings towards them). Give them Influence over you and add 1 Team to the pool.
• How did you first meet your mentor?(Which hero inspired you to get into the business?)
Bweeew, you cut right to it huh? Not that I mind dishing out the slice, ha, it's just a bit more...somber than usual is all. Well, let's turn back the clock three years as we come upon the scene of two brothers, alone but not afraid in one of the less hospitable parts of our shining Halcyon city. These brothers have grown up without parents so to speak, but have always managed to take care of each other, and the older one has managed to finally get a place for the two of them away and out of the foster system. School is going well for the younger one, and everything seems to be going well when-*claps hands to face*GASP! Tragedy strikes! The older brother falls over, clutching his chest! Now he's stuck in the hospital with a rare congenital heart defect, and the younger brother is left out in the cold! Without his brothers good, constructive influence, this younger brother starts to do poorly in school, skipping class to gut fish and wash dishes. And now, the younger brother learns that the hospital bills are getting worse, and he's forced to start taking worse jobs to just get by! The horror of it! So the younger brother falls in with some toughs, thinking he can hide and ignore his conscience until his brother is better.
Woe be our young friend when not only a week later, he finds himself dragged out to the alley behind a night club by his new thug "friends". He had had the gall to warn some young unsuspecting girls that his new friends had some rather unsavory plans for them, having just learned about them himself. Now his friends want him to learn words like fist, and punch, and pain.
And it's at this time that our young man hears the worst joke of his life: "Wow! Thanks for takin care of him for me! There's no way I could stand up to someone it takes all three of you to put him down!" Our youth had never wanted to punch someone so much in his life.
A few whams, biffs, and pows later, the young man is face to mask with a giant grin and two wide eyes.
"Why so glum, chum? You're alive, right? So laugh!"
But this only makes the younger brother cry. He's killed his brother, he thinks, for some people he doesn't even know! When he explains this to the masked man, the masked man just laughs!
"The world's a funny place, Mac. When you get the joke, try to come see me again."
It's not for many hours later, when the young man finally trundles home that he learns the news on the answering machine. He finds out that, miraculously, the local saint hero, Lay Hands, had made a charity visit to his brother's hospital and cured his brother, free of charge. He manages to run to the hospital in time to find the heroine still operating, and with tears streaking down his face, thanks her with every ounce of his being. And he takes that happiness, and that gratitude, and thinks very hard of how he could pay back such a kindness. And maybe it was in that moment, when the youth thought about how he too might be able to save just one life, like Lay Hands had, that I decided to be a hero.
• When and why did you choose to train with them?
As poor timing as boss P might have had at the time, he was right. The world is a funny place. But when you're greener than goo and twice as soft, you really need someone to help prep your set. Punch up your scripts. So I spent the next several weeks figuring out where Punchline operated, and when he would be active, and after several tries, managed to catch his act.
• Why did they agree to train you?
I'm not quite sure, but maybe it was that when I stepped out into that alley, after I had finally caught up with him, before I could really think about the obvious tussle he had just been in, the dozen plus thugs lying groaning or unconscious on the ground, or the cuts and scrapes he obviously had, I blurted out "Well old man, I think you need some new material. It looks like you're putting them to sleep!" I've never seen a man with multiple stab wounds laugh so hard.
• Who else, outside of the team, knows about your training?
Oh, couple of people. There were a couple of us kicksters under some of the league old guard. I guess if anyone stands out, it would be Gasket. He was a mild pherrokenetic and strong hyrdokenetic under Weathervane. Couldn't do all the stormy stuff but he was the bane of every storm sewer in the city, hehe. Also you would be amazed the mileage you can get out of "don't blow a gasket", hahaha. He was a fun guy. Anyway, we'd see each other at the league get together a and swap stories. We even took down Flume together once. Ahhh, good times. He's still patrolling Halcyon with the old man storm last I heard, so I think he's fine.
• Why do you care about the team?
Well cause they're my team and they save my bacon all the time, durr. Ok, ok. The meat of it is that they keep me grounded and fun. I wasn't exactly pleased when ol' Punchy sent me out for some advanced solo work. I think his exact words were "you're getting stale, go work on some new material. Real talk though, I'm sending you to one of my old haunts. I think it'll do you good." Ugh. Like I didn't have a life back in Halcyon? So when I got here, I may have been a little, umm, big cowboy in little town. So when I got knocked on my butt for the first time, and had to have the team pull me out of that particular fire, well, it was a hot wake up call. It doesn't hurt they're all a barrel of laughing monkeys. I would hang out with them all the time if I could, haha.
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1. Which hero inspired you to get into the business?
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2. What embarrassing incident happened during your first attempts at heroics?
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3. What has been your greatest success on the streets of Summitview?
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4. What aspect of Summitview would you miss most?
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5. (optional) What are you doing in the show's intro credits montage?
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6. (optional) A thread name for the IC thread.
Kid Blink fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Oct 9, 2016
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