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Post by jazzisblues on May 10, 2017 11:21:59 GMT -8
Ok, so here's the deal, this thread is for me to get ideas from you guys for things for the Masks game. WAIT WHAT? YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO THE MASKS GAME? What's wrong with you? Ok, so in our last issue (Vol I, Its 5) our heroes landed at the bottom of the stair well (thanks to Mr. Clean) and entered, "Detention," how they got back in detention was the subject of much debate and consternation on the part of the heroes. This is the detention facility for the super secret Zeus Corporation, and it houses some very dangerous bad guys that are about to be released. So, here's what I need from you guys. I need 3-4 villainous supers to throw at the pc's. Hit me, whatcha got? Cheers, JiB
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Post by tomes on May 10, 2017 13:35:58 GMT -8
The Borrower: It's not "stealing" if you give it back, right? She can basically borrow thoughts from people - and the person will forget that piece of information for themselves - for about 5-10 seconds, then the thoughts return to the person. She's pretty lazy about studying, and started doing this as a way to cheat at tests from the students around her. She recently learned that she can:
* cause temporary confusion that gives her a short time advantage (someone is chasing her? make them forget what they're doing for a few seconds) * harvest passcodes and other sensitive information * find out someone's crush or other personal secrets * prevent someone from knowing how to activate their power... for about 5 seconds
Her powers are limited in that she has a hard time returning to anyone she's recently "attacked" in this manner... they become immune for a period of time (5-10 minutes). This led to how she eventually got caught cheating.
This will also grossly affect her ability to be very effective against the group; she doesn't control people, but has this ability to interfere, occasionally. She may be able to steal a secret prior to any conflict, but then won't be able to attack or defend against that person in the near future. Also, she may already have useful, interesting, or incriminating information that the group would want or could use. Could she be convinced to help? Or is she just using them?
Once someone knows her power, it becomes obvious what information she stole... because you just remember it when the effect fades. E.g., you can't remember who your crush is... oh ya, Bobby. (*shit, she must know I like Bobby, now!*)
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Post by SirGuido on May 10, 2017 16:52:04 GMT -8
Dymand:
An asian woman(Transformed playbook) with piercing eyes and no costume. She was caught by The King while she tried to use her abilities to rob the Halcyon bank in the middle of the day in front of multiple eye witnesses. Walking in, completely naked, her flesh glittering and nearly translucent under the lights. She gives one look at the security guard before jumping over the counter and walking right into the vault. The guard called out to her, but she ignored him utterly, so he opened fire. His bullets pinged off of her crystalline flesh and rebounded around the inside of the vault. After gathering up as much cash as she could hold she just calmly walked out into the daylight. At first, she disappeared. No one saw where she went. After The King was briefed on the situation and he checked the security footage, he realized what happened. The thief could change her appearance. With this information he was able to track her down and put her away.
Abilities: Diamond body composition(impenetrable armor) Ability to change her outside appearance(transmute flesh)
Basically under her skin is a layer of strong and impenetrable diamond like material. Her skin can be manipulated to change her appearance. She cannot mimic a specific person, she can only change her own features in such a way to make her look different, sort of like plastic surgery on a larger scale.
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Post by sbloyd on May 10, 2017 16:54:16 GMT -8
Redpill, with the ability to enflame animosity between men and women.
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Post by wyrd on Jun 7, 2017 10:52:33 GMT -8
well saw your most recent episode loved it looks to be going great.
so, i wanted to respond to your request for villian submission and this thought came bubbling ill formed from the depths of my head thing. Was thinking we really haven't seen much in regards i think to boom boom's background and had heard her mention that she doesn't have a very good homelife i think during the cast. So I suggest if you can weasel it in there that the next villian by her sister. Say a pop tart got thrown over the wall while she was playing in the yard(think that was boom booms origin), her powers came out differently though. She got the ability to animate her playthings say like anything that would have her use her creativity/imagination. Thinking examples from the comic genre: the other test subjects from akira, Nero from green lantern, there was also a guy from one of the more recent wild card books of george rr martin who could animate and project his conscienceness into the pictures he drew.
Was also thinking this would be perhaps a slower burn on revealing this villian. If she has a good day she would animate a happy plaything and it would be playful/whimsical. If she had a bad day she would go to her sketch book where she would animate horrors she drew, because i kind of get the sense boom boom has a broken home, and i think the sketch book would be an outlet for her.
hopefully you will find these thought useful you've made me very interested in trying to run a game of mask
thanks much for the game
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Post by mrcj on Jun 15, 2017 14:30:37 GMT -8
So it took me longer because I listen to the podcast. I don't play Masks but I did a little research. So this might be a bit much but feel free to use or ignore.
The Killer G’s
Superhero teams beat up on one guy. Sure he is a scary guy, but at the end of the day it is four on one. For the team to shine they really need to have to go toe to toe against a team of equals. The Avengers need Hydra and AIM and other big organizations to truly be tested. The Fantastic Four give spawn to the Fearsome Four, the Skrulls and others. The X-men have all the various groups they fight against. And from DC. they have whatever lame predictable groups they have.
In that spirit The Killer G’s are also at Howlett High a senior, a junior and two sophomores. One or two are known bad operators, maybe into drugs or other things.
Gideon Frock (delinquent)
The poor little rich kid who has uses is father’s (Jeroboam Frock) high tech company (Corona Advanced Technologies – CAT LLC) to arm himself with various high tech gadgets. Girls, money, cars, he has it all but he wants more. And what he wants is excitement, the excitement from taking down some of these stiff loser-heroes in this town.
His divorced parents are out of state a lot leaving young Gideon alone often. A loose accounting department and a few well-placed bribes within his dad’s company allows Gideon to not only have his own high tech base of operations but also the means to go toe to toe with a number of Halcyon City’s heroes.
To assure a win he has used his money and influence to gather up a few followers to help him in his cause, some more likeminded than others.
Gallow Bird – Lucy Jones (beacon)
The only girl in the Killer G’s and perhaps their most dangerous member. Lucy Jones is a regular student, not particularly noticeable behind her giant glasses and affinity for parkour you tube videos. But when she puts on her mask and cat suit, her rope tricks and stunning acrobatic moves are as brilliant as they are dangerous. Do not get caught in her death noose.
Greenleaf- Jim Wang-Young (protégé)
Man, sure his messed up step dad (aka McBong) is part of the Seven Leaf Collective (a shady team of men who organize mules to bring narcotics across the border). Sure Jim smokes magical buds for the hallucinogenic affects that he can make real. Sure he used to get good grades and those grades are falling fast. Sure the cronic is better for you than smoking cigarettes and it will be legal soon. Sure Jim is a contact for drug distribution around the school. Sure…I can’t remember what I was going to say.
Gig Foot- Ricardo (Ricky) Moses (transformed)
Ricky has an anger problem. After his feet grew to size 24 and his hands grew to match them, he was kicked off his travelling soccer team. Even though he is fast, real fast, the track team kids don’t want him around. So when Gideon started paying attention to the five foot tall kid with the freak appendages, well then Gideon’s the guy.
When not with Gideon, Ricky covers up and keeps to himself at the back of the class. With Gideon he is background wingman and sometimes enforcer.
Oh, and he calls himself Gig Foot because he is in the Killer G’s not the Killer B’s.
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Post by Wakefield on Jun 15, 2017 17:31:01 GMT -8
How villainous do you want your supervillain? Because I have an idea for a misunderstood youthful offender who might be related to (the offspring of?) Sludge King. He or she at least might be someone who could easily have beef with Mr. Clean, for reasons you'll find out shortly.
The superdelinquent I have in mind would use the Janus playbook and is a graffiti artist specializing in reverse graffiti. (If you haven't seen what art this method can produce, I highly encourage you to do a Google Image search, as it's wicked sweet.) This artist, whom I'm calling Taggart or Patina (yay puns) depending on gender presentation, would be native to a historic but lower-income neighborhood of Halcyon City, long inhabited by a marginalized population (people of color, butalso possibly Transformed, etc.) and sporting landmarks with historical significance to this community. (It would also have plenty of dirty, sooty surfaces to clean-tag.)
Patina/Taggart is waging a personal campaign against investors and politicians who are looking to develop and gentrify the neighborhood. If successful, this gentrification would displace current residents (current tenants and a significant homeless population dependent on long-standing community service groups) and fundamentally alter the character of the community. Plus, it would almost certainly mean losing all the sweet clean-tags Patina/Taggart has left all over town, some of which have by now become community icons. (Some are even Pokèstops!)
Patina/Taggart has superb control over substance mimicry powers, and he/she started out small, dirtying up properties and facilities important to her enemies and then clean-tagging them with political messages. The messages themselves caught some media coverage, mostly in local rags and independent publications. Interested parties, however, took to mainstream news media to launch smear campaigns, and behind the scenes they launched aggressive buyout campaigns and increased the law enforcement presence in the community itself. Taggart/Patina responded to these escalated efforts in kind, using substance mimicry to burrow into and wreak havoc inside and out on properties he/she had been content to merely tag. Still, Patina/Taggart can't resist leaving a clean-tag signature on this destructive handiwork. Fans of the artist's older graffiti pieces may have started to put two and two together, and while the vast majority support his/her vigilantism, it's only a matter of time before law enforcement picks up and interrogates someone in the know.
Patina/Taggart carries small amounts of his/her "paints" (water for superpowered power washing, plus environmentally friendly cleaning solutions and organic substances such as dirt, clay, moss, etc.) with him/her at all times, contained in various pouches on his/her costume. In combat, he/she transforms his/her body into the toughest material nearby that he/she can mimic. He/she will also meld with and move through solid substances for increased battlefield mobility. In his/her mundane life, Patina/Taggart juggles the responsibilities of playing on a sports team, carrying for his/her sibling(s) while his/her mom puts in long hours (especially if mom is now a single parent because hubby and father Sludge King got locked up), and working a part-time job of his/her own.
Alternatively, Taggart/Patina could be a more traditional graffiti artist with magical paint (creations come to life, can produce perfect camouflage, writes graffiti in what look like stylized letters but which are actually magical sigils). He or she could also secrete a paint as a bodily substance, such as blood or saliva or bile, or he/she could have developed special glands. I like the idea of the paint being his/her blood, because this could result in blood-related medical conditions that would further complicate the character. At the very least he/she would have to watch out for faintness due to blood loss.
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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Jun 16, 2017 7:10:37 GMT -8
So, here's what I need from you guys. I need 3-4 villainous supers to throw at the pc's. - The Red Fury: Soviet super weapon put on ice by Captain Freedom. Unbreakable skin and the power of his Soviet Hypnosis Gaze make him a foe to not only aspiring heroes but to free thought itself.
- Father Blood: The moniker of Father Blood has been passed down to worthy successors through the ages. But no matter who holds the mantle the motive is always the same: Consume the blood of the weak for power and recruit a faithful following in service to the Blood Spirit.
- Glitch: Born from a freak accident when Billy Boyd was struck by lightning while playing his Atari too close to his home chemistry set, Glitch has the power to cause machines to malfunction to his benefit. He was captured after he went on a crime spree robbing ATMs across the city resulting in the death of Hyperion.
- The Wooly Man: Frozen since the dawn of time, the Wooly Man caused a panic in the Great Lakes area after he defrosted and raided the nearby towns. Witnessing the prehistoric beast's brutish strength, Admiral Winters made government scientists transfer his mind into the Wooly Man's body resulting in insanity and a thirst for world domination.
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Post by jazzisblues on Jun 16, 2017 7:36:48 GMT -8
Wakefield Shock me ... These sound awesome guys. I'm digging what we're cooking here. I'll create a new thread, I just need to make sure I can get all of the cards for the prize first. Cheers, JiB If I can't get the cards, I have an alternate plan I just want to make sure everything is squared away first.
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Post by SirGuido on Jun 16, 2017 13:05:44 GMT -8
Nobilis.
Nobilis(Legacy Playbook) is a 28 year old female graduate student and researcher at nearby Halcyon University. Nobilis, or Amy Hermark, lived a mostly normal life, stable household, family and friends who loved and cared for her, popular in school, everything you see in a television show. A top graduate of her high school she had her pick of places to go to school but decided to stay home to be close to her family and friends. Mostly studying chemistry, she excelled and got into a great post graduate study program and her life looked to be going in a great direction.
Unknown to her, however, her aunt was the antihero Miasma. Even her own mother didn't know. Amy was visited several times at school by her Aunt Beth, they had always been close when she was a child, and during one visit she informed her niece that she was dying of cancer. She didn't want to go out weak and feeble so she had decided to take her own life while she still had strength of mind and will to make the decision. Aunt Beth told Amy that she would get a package in the mail once she died and that she was sorry but had no better choice. Amy asked what she meant, but Aunt Beth would say no more. Later that year she heard from her mother that Aunt Beth was gone and Amy was grief stricken. She mourned for days, moping about her apartment in a daze. Then a knock came at the door and a man was there to deliver a package. She had almost forgotten about the mysterious package. After signing, she immediately ripped it open and read the news. Her Aunt Beth had been Miasma, and that part of what made her who she was happened to be inside the box. She had to entrust its power to someone, and she had chosen Amy. Amy at that point procured her powers and became Nobilis. Her powers allow her to turn any natural gas element into a noble gas, to control them to some extent, and in some ways even control the elements within herself. She can fly in short bursts, regenerate wounds quickly, and manipulate the very air around her.
At first she started off small, stopping a purse snatching by partially converting the oxygen in the thief's lungs to Helium and causing him to pass out. Then she went bigger, and bolder. By thickening the density of the air inside it, she caused a would-be murderer's weapon to backfire and explode in his hand. This event made her feel invincible and incredibly powerful. She felt that she was chosen for this for a reason. She could make a difference. That's when it happened. Halcyon City had an election and the front runner happened to be someone she despised. A man she felt spelled absolute doom for the city, an especially the University since he wanted to severely cut funding to the institution. So she took matters into her own hands. She went to a rally for Johnson Wales, fully dressed in her newly made costume, and confronted him. He laughed at her accusations and mostly just played off her appeals for his better judgment. This enraged Nobilis and she wanted to make him listen. She lashed out to silence the microphone with her abilities but instead she struck at Johnson himself, he began to gasp for breath and reaching for his throat in an obvious sign for choking. Nobilis stood there, transfixed, partially horrified by what she had done and partially thrilled by her power.
Security rushed to the stage, pointing weapons in her direction. When she made to walk forward they fired. On instinct she increased the density of the air around her and the bullets ricocheted into the audience. Many people were screaming and bleeding. Jumping up she propelled herself into the air and to the top of a nearby building. She escaped that day and went into hiding, not returning to public as Nobilis again. A few weeks later a few men approached her at HU and told her about an exciting opportunity they had for someone with her "talents". While listening to their pitch, she was ambushed and drugged and taken to the Zeus Corporation facility where she was tested on. The testing warped her in many ways and she wants nothing more than to make the world pay.
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Post by wyrd on Jun 19, 2017 19:53:17 GMT -8
second submission: there was a book a read that was a series of short stories about superheroes one of them was captain housekeeping (thus he could fit in with mr clean legacy), but he had fallen on hard times and been taking odd jobs to get by. His villians apparently had all been defeated(the dustbunny gang i remember being one of them) so he had been cleaning peoples places for them. so he shows up at this place because he had been called but it wasn't to face villians of dust and grime just someone who wanted them to clean thier place up before a party. So the next day, the place is found to be absolutely spotless including the 12 skeletons sitting around table there bones gleaming.
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Jun 20, 2017 7:55:51 GMT -8
Roquefort, the Gallic Gourmand.
Usually dresses in the red, white and blue of the French flag, and affects a terrible French accent in order to (badly) disguise the fact he's actually Nigel Pansberry from Long Beach. A lactokinetic, whose powers include Brie Bolts, Hard Cheddar Shields and the dreaded Stinking Bishop Cloud. Self-appointed 'Grande Fromage' (& cheese pun enthuiast), Roquefort steals to fund his dream of opening a cheese-based eaterie, but also can't resist holding up the odd high-end restuarant and providing them with a damning review.
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