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<blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 4148765" data-attributes="member: 50821">OK, there was this one time...Champions campaign, the first adventure - 6 armed gunmen with superhuman strength and speed interrupt a scientist's presentation on his invention of a honest-to-goodness time machine. The heroes, a 6 man team of all the classic icons, Superstrong Flying Alien, Speedster, Bug-themed Costumed Detective, Cyborg Warmachine, Blind Psionic and their leader, Suave Gentleman Mystic,&nbsp; defeat most of the gunmen, revealing them to be androids trying to sabotage the device. Just then, one of the gunmen gets to the time machine and reveals the real focus of the plan...he is going to put a bomb in the time machine and send it back to the dawn of the Earth, destroying it before it even forms. So our heroic defenders of all that is good and just stand before the villian as the Mystic says...&quot;Alright men, let's see what he does...&quot;. GM: Blink. Blink. &quot;Um...he...puts a bomb in the time machine and send it back to the dawn of the Earth, destroying it before it even forms.&quot;Mystic PC: &quot;I see. Ok, gang, be ready for anything.&quot;GM: Blink. Blink. Mystic PC: &quot;So what happens?&quot;GM: &quot;BOOM. The world goes Boom. It goes Boom a really, really, really long time ago. The planet doesn't exist. The campaign is over...or actually never started.&quot;The group looks at the lead PC with eyes bordering on the capacity for heat vision. The Mystic's player, a long time fan of the comic book medium, was certain the villian was about to elaborate on his monologue and/or reveal more on the reason and nature of his plan. The player never expected the bad guy to say &quot;I'm going to press this button and blow up the Earth&quot; and then just go ahead and press the button.AD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Green Adam, post: 4148765, member: 50821"] OK, there was this one time... Champions campaign, the first adventure - 6 armed gunmen with superhuman strength and speed interrupt a scientist's presentation on his invention of a honest-to-goodness time machine. The heroes, a 6 man team of all the classic icons, [B]Superstrong Flying Alien, Speedster, Bug-themed Costumed Detective, Cyborg Warmachine, Blind Psionic [/B] and their leader, [B]Suave Gentleman Mystic[/B], defeat most of the gunmen, revealing them to be androids trying to sabotage the device. Just then, one of the gunmen gets to the time machine and reveals the real focus of the plan...he is going to put a bomb in the time machine and send it back to the dawn of the Earth, destroying it before it even forms. So our heroic defenders of all that is good and just stand before the villian as the Mystic says..."Alright men, let's see what he does...". GM: Blink. Blink. "Um...he...puts a bomb in the time machine and send it back to the dawn of the Earth, destroying it before it even forms." Mystic PC: "I see. Ok, gang, be ready for anything." GM: Blink. Blink. Mystic PC: "So what happens?" GM: "BOOM. The world goes Boom. It goes Boom a really, really, really long time ago. The planet doesn't exist. The campaign is over...or actually never started." The group looks at the lead PC with eyes bordering on the capacity for heat vision. The Mystic's player, a long time fan of the comic book medium, was certain the villian was about to elaborate on his monologue and/or reveal more on the reason and nature of his plan. The player never expected the bad guy to say "I'm going to press this button and blow up the Earth" and then just go ahead and press the button. AD [/QUOTE]

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