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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7453437" data-attributes="member: 20564">I've had a couple of characters with big secrets that came out.  Some were bad for the character, some amusing, and one had some great roleplaying.I was joining an existing Champions (superheros) game.  Great game, and a lot of internal character drama that the players were happy with - good RP, not inter-player problems.With the DM and the player of the leader of the team, we worked out my character and she was actually an android whom the leader wanted because the team needed a brick (heavy hitter tank).  But she had been programed not to know she was an android so she couldn't give it away, and had false memories of a childhood at the equivalent of a more mainstream expy of Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youngsters.Part of what made her so effective in pretending to be real was that she had low level telepathy not under her conscious control to allow her to learn to act as expected.  Which was a completely different subsystem then powers she knew about.Anyway, things are going well for a while fitting into the team, and two of the existing heroes were wooing her.  Finally she became an item with one and the other started sleeping around to try to make her jealous.  Right about then someone discovered she was an android, petrified her with magic, and the whole team go together to discuss.What followed was several hours of fantastic roleplay, even though I couldn't participate being turned to stone.  Had I been kidnapped and replaced, was I a spy, all sorts of things.  The person who had been turned down was sure I was up to no good, while the other one was dismayed to find out I wasn't alive.  Then the team psychic talked about seeing telepathic emanations which was not part of my powers they knew about which made things even more interesting.  After a while it came out that the leader knew, and there was all these accusations about why the rest of the team hadn't been told.  Just really good soap-opera.  The fact that most of the players hadn't known about it either gave it a great edge.In the end, they decided to keep her on the team on probation, woke her up and told her.  And she didn't believe them.  Champions has a disadvantage system, and she has a 15 point Psychological disadvantage: Won't believe she's an android.  Hardcoded in so she couldn't accidentally discover and out herself.Things ended up working out really well long term.  Though at a later point when her husband (I did say later) cheated on her she ended up going all emotionless robot who didn't bother to breath or blink for a few months.  Or when she got possessed and turned evil for a session - you know, someone with low-level telepathy plus perfect recall who's been through all the rosters including weaknesses - that's a really NASTY person to fight.  Fighting in orbit and turned off all of one hero's powers - including life support.  Was able to tell her new evil allies the perfect attacks to use against all of the rest her team.  Oh, it was a glorious, horrible day.  So I guess that was the the other half - when she let all of their secrets slip.</blockquote>

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