Marvel Superheroes: Game Closed

[hero4hire]

Another idea I had was to play "Peter of the Fall People"; who is the actual son of Colossus and a Savage Land native girl in comics. (yes Colossus actually has a son in Marvel continuity but you would have to read X-Men in the early 80s to know that). Who can turn into Antarctic Vibranium. (that part I made up since Marvel hasn't done anything with him so far).

I am a Marvel Geek too but my knowledge of the past 10 years is sketchy everything before though is pretty good.

 

[HolyMan]

Checking in:

@airwalkr: Your guy sounds great and I will be putting together a history if want happened once the Mutant Registration Act passed (kind of a timeline thing) so you can work on an origin in the mean time try finding some related powers in the rule books letting me know what you like there

@hero4hire: very kool concepts and all work for being a mutant just hint at some powers you like we will work together on stats and other things after

@rangerjohn: since the ultimate powers book is in the pdf spot we will use it even though I don't have a hard copy here

@ WalkingDad: just do an origin and what powers you have we will be doing characters up based on concepts but of course we need to keep them at a medium style power level (don't want a group of Hulk's) then I throw in game stats and explanations as needed

@Theroc: darn , darn, and darn it wish you could download and if you can soon let me know you would only need the rule book actualy

To everyone else should I open recuritment or do we go with four and maybe different NPC add-ons??

HM

 

[airwalkrr]

I see my guy as being pretty young, somewhere in his late teens. His mutant abilities haven't been a part of him all his life. I am thinking he first showed signs of them around 15 and he is 18 or 19 now but has rarely used them because of the MRA. His parents were either mutants who abandoned him at a monastery because they knew he would be a mutant too or he ran away from home once he learned of his powers.

I think I'll go with Solaris for his secret identity name. He appears as a perfectly normal Hispanic human, although he is actually half-Hispanic, half-Caucasian. His origin is mutant. I am still looking through the powers, but I think his main power will definitely be energy missile.

 

[hero4hire]

While in the Savage Land, Piotr aka Colossus had an encounter with two native women, Nereel and Shakani, who wished to make love with him after Colossus saved them from a thunder lizard. Nereel wished to bring new blood into their tribe. Piotr made love for the first time. The fruit of their union was a son, Peter, born long after Piotr, the elder, left the Savage Land. Colossus is unaware that Peter is his son, despite having met him. (this all happened in various issues of X-Men some decades ago real time, I'll say 13 years ago using Marvel's sliding timeline?)

So Peter was left to grow up in the Savage Land raised by his mother and her tribe the Fall People.

During their Secret Invasion Earth, the Skrulls noted that Vibranium (and subsequently the weapons created from the metal) could hinder their plans. This led to the mining of Savage Land Vibranium under the guise of a rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. faction. They attacked many local tribes and took many "natives" as slaves (also actually happened in comics during Secret Invasion).

Peter (Jr.) was one of these slaves that they made mine the Antartic Vibranium known as "anti-metal" and managed to free himself during the altercation between the Mighty Avengers, New Avengers and Skrull Avengers. (the altercation is also canon)

Thirteen year old Peter found his prolonged exposure to anti-metal had triggered his latent mutant ability. Like his father he could turn his body into organic metal....Anti-Metal! In his metal form he had the properties of Antarctic vibranium.

Weeks later Cyclops and Emma Frost have taken a holiday to the Savage Land, but are called to San Francisco by Archangel because a hippie 'goddess' (actually Martinique Jason) has placed the city, as well as Hepzibah, Warpath, Iceman and Archangel, under her control and in a 60s style illusion. (canon from X-Men Divided We Stand). Using his hunting skills Peter managed to stowaway in their unnoticed (though Emma may have actually detected him but let him stowaway anyway, probably just to see the look on Colossus's face when he met the boy.)

While in Frisco Peter made his way into the city to unbeknownst to the X-Men (save perhaps Frost) to acclimate himself to this strange and wondrous foreign land.

This should bring young Peter directly up to Marvels current timeline. I'll leave it up to Holyman about the rest.

Also if we need to alter anything history wise to fit the plot I am more than willing.

 

[airwalkrr]

Well... I was being intentionally vague on my plot because I wasn't entirely sure which Marvel continuity HolyMan was going to use. I haven't read the adventure module so I'm not entirely sure if it does assume one continuity or the other or lets the GM pick or whatever. Anyway, that's quite an impressive background.

 

[hero4hire]

Thanks

Well I figured I'd write it up including current continuity and if it doesn't fit I would just roll with it and modify as needed.

I love characters Marvel has virtually done nothing with because I get the freedom to do what I want with them but have the benefit of strong ties to the Marvel Universe.

 

[hero4hire]

I am trying to pin down exactly what vibranium does mechanically in-game.

The rulebook state one thing but the character writeups have something a little different.

I am inclined to go with the writeups description as it is closer to what I have seen in comics.

 

[airwalkrr]

Even minor characters may have had over a dozen authors write them over the years. Marvel has been in business for decades. You can hardly expect the authors to keep up with every little detail. Sometimes, as a fan, you just have to be willing to let those kind of things slip. I mean look at how many times they've retconned Wolverine's past. I don't even care about Wolverine's past anymore. I just enjoy him kicking ass in the here and now.

 

[hero4hire]

I've played with making a character sheet for Peter aka "Colossal".
Would you like me to post it HolyMan or would you prefer descriptions to stay abstract at this point?

 

[Theroc]

@Theroc: darn , darn, and darn it wish you could download and if you can soon let me know you would only need the rule book actualy

I will not be able to download until I own my own network with my own PC and pay for my own internet. (At the moment, I operate on my father's network, using the family internet at my PC.) Bad financial situations and poor jobmarket and all. I can download certain things, but generall not. Particularly since I cannot verify the legality of that site, and would need my father to 'clear' it in advance(which basically means he says he'll look into it, and doesn't... because he's usually too sick to worry over minor stuff like that.)

So, as I said, good luck and I hope you guys enjoy. We'll get to play in other games. (After all, most of you guys are in games with me or running games I am in... or joining games soon starting up[maybe])