Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)16:55 No. 220692 ID: a6008c
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Name: James Blacwick.
Age: 23.
Education: High School Graduate.
Occupation: Full time Grocer.

If I had to describe myself in a word, I'd say: boring. I've never had a girlfriend, or any friends, really. I've always been kind of a loner, and a collector of comic books. But mostly a loner.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)16:55 No. 220693 ID: a6008c
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That is, until today. Things got a bit weird for me after today.

*ding* "BLACWICK!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)16:56 No. 220694 ID: a6008c
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"WE HAVE COME TO STOP YOU FROM DESTROYING THE EARTH!"

>>220694
Quick, throw the penny bowl at them and then dive over the counter and get out whatever shotgun or .44 magnum is keept there for occasions such as this and robberies. Also tell them to fuck off or buy something.

Ask them if they need help finding anything.

Acquire odd looking foam appendages and grow to a giant size!

Tell them you have no idea what they're talking about.

>>220694
Stop you from destroying the Earth through inaction, of course. They're trying to recruit you onto their team! There's only three of them, there's supposed to be more than that! You're obviously the prime candidate for fourth member.

"I'm sorry, we're fresh out. Check back Tuesday."

>>220716

This! This is the most awesome thing you can say!
Do not forget your mindless-drone-stare!

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:28 No. 220733 ID: a6008c
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"Sorry, we're fresh out. Check back Tuesday."

"Oh, uh, sorry, I could have sworn he was working today... We'll, uh, we'll double check our schedule next time..."

They leave.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:28 No. 220734 ID: a6008c
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They come back in.

"VILLAIN! WE HAVE YOUR PICTURE RIGHT HERE! YOU THOUGHT TO FOOL US? HAH."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:30 No. 220737 ID: a6008c
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Of course, I had no idea what they were talking about. A villain? Me? The most evil thing I've done was sell my friend's game boy for cash after he got a game boy advance.

"What are you talking about?"

"DO YOU INTEND TO SAVE THIS PLANET, BLACWICK?"

"...Huh?"

"THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE TRYING TO DESTROY IT!"

"...Obviously. Look, do you need help finding anything?"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:30 No. 220738 ID: a6008c
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The Green Ranger hops forward. "YES, I DO! HOLD STILL, THAT MY EVIL DESTRUCTION CANNON MAY FIND YOU!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:30 No. 220739 ID: a6008c
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"...Seriously, please hold still, this takes a second to charge..."

>>220738
Don't hold still.

>>220739
Walk over and flick him in the head.

>>220739
Go forward and kick the incompetent fool in the nuts.

James Badwit: Stand still. Remain motionless until dead or arrested like a good NPC.

Green Ranger: Request that Blue Ranger and Pink ranger defend you from the foolish, if troublesome mooks about to attack you.

side step. if it really is evil seeking then it wont home in on you and instead go to the true evil.

>>220739
Walk around and remove Green's helmet.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)17:43 No. 220753 ID: a6008c
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Having taken a couple years of karate back in school, I decide to put them to use. I kick him in the face.

"Gah! My evil destruction cannon!"

"Attacking while an attack was charging..."
"The fiend..."

Threaten to call the cops on them. That'll sure show them you mean business.

"no, look. unless you actually give me a charge better then 'possibly wants to destroy the world' i have to get back to my job. besides, if i destroyed the world then where would i live?"

>>220753
"I'm not going to destroy the world, moron. That's where I keep all my stuff."

"You know what, you guys piss me off, maybe I WILL destroy the world. And it will all be your fault!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:29 No. 220771 ID: a6008c
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I attempt to reason with them. As troopers of justice, I'm sure they can reason, right?

"No, look. Unless you something better against me than 'possibly wants to destroy the world', I have to get back to my job. Besides, if i destroyed the world, then where would i live?"

"ON YOUR MOONBASE, OF COURSE."

"...I have a moon base? I mean, no. No, I keep all my stuff on Earth. Okay, listen, this is harassment. If you don't get out of my store, I am calling the police on you."

"HAH! AS IF THE POLICE WOULD HELP ONE SUCH AS YOU!"

"Of course they would."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:30 No. 220772 ID: a6008c
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Blue walks up to me, and pulls out some papers.

"Actually no, see, we have hero's licenses, and you are our registered nemesis. The police can't actually intervene."

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of."

"No, seriously, you can go down to city hall and check it out. You're all signed up and everything. Us too."

"Since when?"

"Heck if I know. Go down and check it out later, we're having our first show down right now."

Green Ranger suddenly speaks up. "B-blue... Pink..."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:30 No. 220773 ID: a6008c
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Blue rushes back to his side.

"I...I've been hurt... Go on without me, Rangers..."
"No! We fight as a team, Green!"
"Yeah! We have to work together!"
"Oh come on. I did not kick you that hard."
"G-guys...."
"Shh... Shh... Rest, Green Ranger... You don't need to talk..."
"Just rest, Green! We'll get you to safety!"
"You can't be serious."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:30 No. 220774 ID: a6008c
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Blue turns towards me. "THIS IS NOT THE LAST YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE EARTH DEFENSE FORCE, BLACWICK!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:30 No. 220775 ID: a6008c
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And they vanish in a puff of smoke.

>>220775
Finish Shift. Then go down to City Hall!

>>220775
Remember to go to city hall and check out that nemesis registration thing when you have a chance.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/08/21(Sat)18:36 No. 220780 ID: bdce21
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>>220775
...yea... How much disposable income and free time do you have?

First task (when your shift is over) would be to check out the details of that hero/nemesis license crap.

Yeah, after work you totally need to check this out and get yourself signed up on the do-not-call list or something.

Tear away the flesh on your arm to see if there is secretly a gigantic killer robot claw hidden there.

Because it would be totally awkward if you were in a club and then they showed up and blasted you with some team attack, revealing said claw and freaking you and the entire club out.

>>220779
Register as a hero.

slap together a thing and paint "world saving machine!" on the side.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:54 No. 220793 ID: a6008c
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I decide to go back to work, like a responsible adult. This job does not pay me well, but it pays me enough. For free time, I get the weekends off, but work 40 hours a week on the weekdays. Every day, 7am to 3 pm.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)18:55 No. 220795 ID: a6008c
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After I get out of work at 3, and head down the City Hall. I go up to the front desk. The name plate reads, "Mayor Bloodswick."

"Hey, sir, these guys attacked me at work today. They said something about being their Nemesis?"

"Hmmm... I'll check the records... Ah, yes! Mr. Blacwick! You were supposed to check in here a week ago. Let's see, you have 2 FX saved up. The Earth Defense Force has declared you their Nemesis, so your encounters with them get bonuses. You haven't decided on a villain name or costume yet. Would you like to do that now?"

>>220795
Tell him you don't remember ever registering. There must be some kind of mistake. Also ask what an FX is.

>>220794
"Yea, it seem the paperwork got screwed up. They registered me as a hero against my wishes, and they registered as villains. Aside from me having never agreed to this, the roles got swapped."

But keep in mind that your job kind of sucks and you dont really have anything better to do than entertain some lunatics.

>>220798
Yes. Ask how much this pays. And how much being a hero pays, for that matter. Your job sucks.

...see how much being a villain pays.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/08/21(Sat)19:05 No. 220806 ID: bdce21
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>>220795
uhm. Explain to him you didn't sign up for this.

and ask what FX are.

if he gives some BS about it just go along and make your name... uh... Blackwing? nah too easy... Obsidian Baron!

No no BARON OBSIDIAN! perfect.

>>220795
Become subdued villain with unremarkable yet tasteful villain name.

Make a show of trying to do evil things and ending up doing incredibly nice things instead. Around the Sentai Squad preferred. Really chew the scenery.

Meet up with Blue at some point and convince him you're shit at being evil, and admit you just want to be normal.

Proceed to live life on as normal and converse with villains and heroes alike. Become Antihero.

Furthermore, see if there's some legal loophole that'll let you be an anti-hero. That way you don't have to do evil, per se.

Ask if they have fixed your moonbase yet, if they have one for you this is so going to be worth it.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)19:48 No. 220823 ID: a6008c
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I try to explain everything to him. "This is all a big mistake. I never signed up for being a nemesis or anything."

"It's an inheritance plan. Your father died last week. He was the great villain Blackwing, and you have succeeded him. You get all the resources he had... or you would, if he hadn't blown them all in his last encounter."

"Wait, Dad died?" That's news to me.

"Yeah."

"...Huh." To be honest, I hadn't seen him in 17 years. It is hard to care about his death. "How much does being a villain pay?"

"Here's your paycheck for that first encounter."

I open it.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)19:49 No. 220824 ID: a6008c
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...This can't be right. I make this much in a month at the grocer's. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah. Villains get 1000$ an encounter, plus an additional 100 per hero in the encounter, and an extra 250 against their nemesis. You also get one FX per encounter."

"...Huh." Wow. That's... That's really something. I take him up on the offer. "I'll be the Obsidian Baron. No, wait - put me down as Baron Obsidian."

"Okay, sure. Nice to meet you, Baron Obsidian."

A few more questions come to mind. "Do I have to do villainy, as a villain? Or just fight the heroes?"

"You get paid by the encounter. Why you fight is entirely up to you, I guess. Villainy is a pretty good way to lure the heroes out though. You are contractually required to put half of each paycheck towards setting up your next encounter, unless you quit the business entirely. And as long as your villainy is for the purposes of luring out the heroes, you can not be legally charged by the police. Your heroes can charge you though, if they catch you. Do you want to design your costume now, too? Or would you like to wait on it?"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)19:49 No. 220825 ID: a6008c
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"Wait, before that, what's an FX?" This seems important.

"A Special Effect. You should be familiar with them, the EDF used 3 of them in your encounter. You know those parts where everything got really detailed? They used an FX for that. Here, I'll use an FX for this scene, so you can see for yourself what I mean."

"Oh wow. When can I use them?"

"Any time you want. Also, each color you put in your costume costs 1 FX. You can also use them to get minions and improve your base, but that costs more FX than you have right now. You can buy more FX for 300$ each, and you'll earn a few every encounter, as well."

"...I have a base?"

"Yes, Blackwing left you a moon base."

Oh fuck yes. "How do I get to it?"

"I don't know. Buy a rocket or something? I am not made of space travel."

...The moon base will have to wait.

>>220825
Become a villain that's quite nice, just annoying.

For example, your first evil plot once you get access to your moon base should be selling advertising space on the dark side of the moon.

Until that time? Use half of that encounter check to pay aspiring young garage bands to play on street corners soliciting tips, and split the tips with them 50/50.

You have obsidian in your name, so the costume can just be black for now. It costs less for the one color. Got any villainy plans? Anything you feel like exploiting? Not all villains are the cackling outrageously evil type, you know. You can do bad things for a good cause or good things for a bad cause.

>>220825
YES

Spend money hunting down the secret identities of Sentai Squad Earth Defense Force.

Use FX in front of one of them while saving a kitten or picking a puppy up from a riverbank or something.

Let it aaaall fall into place.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/08/21(Sat)20:00 No. 220836 ID: bdce21
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>>220825
alright sweet, since black is a shade and not a color let's make our costume that... and all obsidiany... I dunno artists help me out here.

buy another FX, I'm sure 3 will come in handy. Spend the rest of the half on the big plastic costume.

>>220825
> MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
Holy crap yes you are so into this. You get a fun job, tons of cash, and get to meet interesting characters.
Just don't go overboard, alright? You're a responsible adult, so that means you should keep a level head about this. No trying to blow up the earth. No absorbing powers bigger than your head. That sortof thing.
Pragmatic villains are always more fearsome, anyway.

> Do you want to design your costume now, too?
We can always change it later, right? Might as well get a cape or something, though.

> Also, each color you put in your costume costs 1 FX.
HAX. Well, black is a pretty good villain colour anyway. Those poor Rangers. So colourful. We should pity them.

Let's save up FX for some minions, first. Always good to have a few people to watch your back. How many FX does it cost to get one of them?

> Moonbase.
> No way to get to Moonbase.
Looks like we'll need to use something more 'down to earth' in the meantime. HAH!

Here's an easy crime for you.

Credit card fraud.

How many credit cards do you see every day at work?

Also, you could probably get away with terrorizing asshole customers now. Check with your boss first, though. He might be able to write off damages as insurance losses or something.

>>220861
Oh damn I like this idea.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)21:23 No. 220864 ID: a6008c
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I buy a third FX, and an all-black costume, with a white cape just because Black and White apparently do not cost any FX. Convenient. It is pretty plain, but it will do for now I guess.

I had 50 dollars beforehand, so now I am up to 1300$ and 3 FX. Really, I get paid enough that I only need to get into an encounter once every 3 or 4 weeks.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)21:23 No. 220865 ID: a6008c
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So let's see what he's got. "So, what else can I spend FX on? And how do I get more?"

"Here, have a list. It gets updated every now and then, but I'll tell if it did when you collect your checks. When you get minions or powers of any kind, you can specify what they entail, and we will do our best to accomodate you. For example, you could get a Water Minion Pack, who could swim. Or a Fire Minion Pack, who would attack using fire based weaponry. It is suggested that you stick to a theme, as it makes things more dramatic."

The Mayor continues. "If you battle impressively, you get more FX for that encounter. You did rather pitifully in this last encounter, so even though you won, you only got the baseline of one FX. The EDF, on the other hand, gained 6, for their commendable ability to stick to their role.

"well, i didn't even know what was happening at the time, i'll do much better on the next one. get some maniacal laughter in there or something"

>>220865
> Stick to a theme.
What did our dad have? What did our dad do?

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/08/21(Sat)21:30 No. 220872 ID: bdce21
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>>220864
>only need to get into an encounter every 3-4 weeks

What? and miss out on all the extra cash we could be getting? Shit dude we need to go find some people to challenge... or see what the encounter schedule is since apparently there seems to be a schedule.

If we're going to be Baron obsidian, let's resemble our eponymous mineral.

Let's be rock hard, stone cold, and scorching hot

The Earth defense force are far too pitiful a group to even deserve an evil chuckle a villain with your class!

OBVIOUSLY the heroes get some kind of list, too, right? OBVIOUSLY. Can we take a look at that, too?
Maybe we could pattern ourselves off as a sortof 'evil hero' type.
Just never turn good. You're never as cool when you do that.

Gotta read up on dad, yeah. And you only NEED an encounter every 3-4 weeks. If you want to rake in the dough you gotta do it more often. Also note
>You are contractually required to put half of each paycheck towards setting up your next encounter
so you'll only be making half as much.

your name is pretty much blackwick

go with a black candle theme, and/or fire.
you already have a supervillain like name

buy 3 FX for a teleport power so you can get to your moon base $900 right? That leaves you $400, good enough to live on for a week definitely, and who knows might be some cool shit up in the moon base.

Well, double check the teleport power first before buying anything and make sure it doesn't need an upgrade to reach that far.

>>220880
You know, I'm totally going to support this. Just don't go overboard with the fire theme.
Your name is Blackwick. You are THE Baron Obsidian. It's a title.
And you're totally going to create the Obsidian Empire.
(titles are cool)

If you aren't too fond of Baron Obsidian, you could, instead, dub yourself 'DOCTOR D'AWWW' and defeat your enemies with the terrible power of cuteness.


:3

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/21(Sat)22:06 No. 220901 ID: a6008c
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Hmm. Now I'm curious. Just what was my father? Why had I never heard of him?

"What was Blackwing's theme?"

"Crows and Bats. He liked the night time, and was obsessed with death, so he chose to use an animal theme that represented that. Ninjas were his favorite minion type, and he'd often drop them from his moon base down to Earth."

Well that is a pretty awesome theme. Man, I should rethink this. "Hey, uh, could I rename myself if I need to?"

"Yeah, at any time you like, but you only really need to stick to a theme for any given encounter. You don't have to stick to the same theme forever, although that does let you reuse leftover resources."

"Alright. Then I will be Baron Obsidian Black Wick."

"Sure."

"Could I see the hero list? For comparison?"

"No."

"Very well then. 6 FX would get me a teleport power, right?"

"Yes, but at it's basic level, it teleports you 10 meters per second of charging. So, to get to the moon reliably would require at least 40,569,600 seconds of continuous charging, at this level. That would be, erm... 470 days, or about 16 months. Each upgrade increases the distance per second by 10 times."

"...How did you do all that math so quickly?"

"Instant calculation power."

Damn to teleport to the moon base in a decent time (6 minutes 45 seconds I think) we need 5 upgrades minimum! We need to gain 21 FX to access the moonbase in a manner that is both quick and efficient. 30 for basically instant transmission. Fuck.

How did good old Pa get there? Whatever. We should see what something like the mind control power is like, Bats, Crows, and Death remind me of Vampires. And Vamps mind control!

That teleport is going to be your ultimate cheaty ability later on, once you can drop like 24 points or so into it. However, for now you just need to figure out how to look good and rack up the points, so grab a set of minions to deploy. Ninjas would probably give the heroes more points for defeating than you'd get for deploying, so look for something more serviceable, like 'guys that have guns'.

>>220901
Are we limited to only one nemesis hero/group? And can we get a notification or something next time someone declares us their nemesis, or otherwise does something involving us?

Can you get additional costumes? What about a secret/concealed identity? It would be hilarious if you could duck into a different room, switch to a classy business suit, and then claim to be someone else again. Considering that you did that during your first encounter, you could turn it into a trademark move, where every single encounter you somehow claim to be someone other than yourself. I'm sure that would somehow be worth FX, particularly if you play it out in an overblown and obvious fashion.

Can we get a contact list of other villains and/or heroes, to arrange for team-ups and/or showdowns when it would be most convenient? Or, y'know, to do diabolical things like kidnap the heroes' young siblings, significant others, and helpless grandparents.

If we buy minions or a miniboss and they're defeated, do we lose them? Assuming that they're not killed, obviously. Arrested, maybe.

Ok, sure, get teleport. It'll be immediately useful, and a good way to spend those FX

Suggestion 2010/08/21(Sat)22:52 No. 220907 ID: 932552
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>>220901
OKAY so here's a sortof running theme:

Fire-based powers. They don't have to actually light stuff on fire so long as it looks flamey. Lots of gratuitous fire effects and the like.
Be sure to get teleporting powers at some point in the future and upgrade them over time. Our short-term goal is to get to our moonbase.

Minions! Let's stick with Ninjas and Bats. It's a callback to your old man, and they're both generically dark and evil. Also, bats kindof fit the fire theme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

We might become more creative later, but I think this is a good theme to start out with.

>>220907

i approve of this more refined version of my idea

Consider a set of minions for the grocery, in case they attack you at work again.
Think how awesome it'd be if all of a sudden, your 'co-workers' started fighting for ya.
If you station 'em in the deli, there's excuse to give 'em tons of knives and stuff!

>>220911
I don't know, if we stick with ninjas we can just hide ninjas everywhere instead. That's how ninjas work.

>>220911
And then we claim to have mind-control powers that we don't actually have in a loud and overblown fashion, to try and trick the heroes into wasting their FX on learning superpowers to counter it. And also to trick them into thinking that we're actually using hapless coworkers rather than minions, so that they play nice and don't hurt them. It'll be great.

Might wanna rethink a powerset that could cause explosive decompression of a moon base from an errant fireball though

>>220907
Since we're doing the discussion here instead of the thread, go with teleport+healing. The army will be comprised entirely of medics.

>>220918
That's why we get a 'survive in space' superpower before using the moonbase with any regularity.

Oh, and you should get theme music! For now, you can just use the restaurant's speakers to play something appropriately distinctive when the heroes next show up. In the future, you can arrange battlefields to have the same music playing. Then when you find out the heroes' secret identities, you can play the music as you're coming for them. Or just all the time in their daily lives, to let them know that you're watching. Make it something appropriately ominous.

>>220918
This is a serious problem, the effects of which cannot be underestimated. Make sure that you get superpowers which will let you survive in space, should you decide to combine both a moon base and fire-based powers. Then you can turn the problem into an advantage, by repeatedly exposing the hapless heroes to space!

...makes me wonder how Dad handled this. I don't suppose that we can get a report on who his enemies were, and perhaps some information on their battles/how he died?

Who's funding this whole operation, anyway? And why? It seems spectacularly pointless.

What all counts as an 'encounter'? Because the curves on Pink looked kinda nice. And the whole 'flirting with the enemy' thing goes over pretty well, usually.

>>220907
This looks pretty good. But replace the Ninjas with dark knight kind of guys instead.

Hmm, and it's probably time to set things up for the next encounter. You know call out the heroes and monologue a bit. Hey I know, you can get a mask, something commander Cobraey, and then use your immunity to charges and fire theme to burn down any competetition your store has nearby and call out the heroes that way. Then you can sort of extort your old boss and say that if he doesn't pay you a bit then you're gonna tell everyone he hired you to burn down his competition.

Just remember to stay in character for each encounter.

Well i guess you could limit the thing to flamethrower style attacks but keep in mind fire eats up oxygen.

>You have basic martial arts training

>FISTS AND FEET OF FIRE

>FALCON PUNCHES

>FLYING KICKS WITH WINGS OF FLAME

Seriously guys, ham this shit up. this job lives on the might of HAM. You saw those ranger doods, we need to outdo them.

Thinking about it the Earth Defense Force Rangers were pretty decent guys. They challenged you to an encounter, spent their FX trying to make it dramatic and let you win because if they won it would just be cruel and pointless.

I think the lesson here is this: WINNING IS NOT IMPORTANT. BEING AWESOME IS.

So far people are suggesting a fire theme and using awesome music to make the battles better. I've got an idea for our first encounter! Buy some gasoline and some cheap, large speakers. Then go ruin some folk music festival (or whatever genre of music you hate) by playing hard rock and metal from the top of a rented car. If heroes show up you can battle. If they seem too tough then you can light the gasoline you've spread around and escape dramatically while the heroes deal with the fire or something.

Actually this fire theme sounds dangerous... Maybe a safer theme would be good until Blacwick actually gets the superpower to manipulate something as dangerous as fire?

>>220983
Wreaking a music festival sounds like a plan, let's get to it.

We must celebrate our newfound villany...

and holding the mayor hostage is a classic! plus hes right there, and I'm sure he wouldn't mind helping you out as a newbie. Its moderately high profile, and a perfect opportunity to try out some test concepts.

>>220983
We don't have to start throwing fire around until we can actually control it, no. We're still a newbie. We have to start small. Let's stick to low range villainy for now. Wrecking a concert or a festival of some kind is perfect. Especially if the music we use is suitable for battle.

/questdis/ basically opted for annoyance tactics anyway. 'become a public nuisance, piss people off until heroes show up'.

Heroes and Villains, we're all in it for the same reason, right? To control our destiny!
Actually that's a good line, you should totally use that the next time you meet those guys. The point is, no need to go overboard yet.

Anyway, just invest in a few smoke bombs (smoke comes from fire, right?), get some beat up jalopy you wouldn't mind losing, a killer sound system, and then let's go find a party to crash.

>>220990

We don't currently have any weapons to hold him hostage with.

I say, find a nice dead (or live!) volcano, because that's both fire and obsidian.

I hear The Final Countdown makes a pretty good rock soundtrack for a fight.

Why are people suggesting things that put innocent civilians at risk? That's completely uncalled for.

No, we want the heroes to be the ones causing all the property damage and death.

Seconding the rock concert troll idea. Plus, it gets you SPECTATORS. Publicity is sure to rake in the money!

Oh! Go out, hire some help, knock over a bank with nothing but flamethrowers and blowtorches!

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/24(Tue)23:26 No. 222030 ID: a6008c
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"Hello everyone, and welcome to Country U! S! AAAA!"

"WOOOOOOO!" "YEEEEEAH" "YEEEEEHAAAAW"

"NOW, WHOSE READY TO LISTEN TO THE BEST MUSIC ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH?"

At that moment, the sound system goes on the fritz. Gweeeeeeee-oooooooooooooooooo

As everyone covers their ears in pain, the voice of America's newest villain is broadcast across the over sized speakers. "I am."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/24(Tue)23:26 No. 222031 ID: a6008c
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With a burst of flame, I appear atop the concert hall, mic in hand. The sound system has been commandeered, my playlist has been uploaded. We're all in.

"Ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the bait and switch, but we're going to be playing something else tonight. Welcome-"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/24(Tue)23:27 No. 222032 ID: a6008c
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"-to the BARON OBSIDIAN HARD ROCK CONCERT! AHAHAHAHAAAAA!"

The speakers begin to blast Bon Jovi, and the black candles I set up flicker alight. As the crowd begins to flee, my concert takeover has been completed. Now to wait for the heroes.

Don't forget to pose in an awesome manner.

he looks like a straightforward guy. most likely his blows are powerful but clumsy.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/24(Tue)23:48 No. 222040 ID: a6008c
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I needn't have worried. A mere three songs in, one steps on to the stage below me. "BARON OBSIDIAN, EH? THAT SOUNDS LIKE A NEW NAME IN TOWN!" He shouts, his voice echoing over the din of the rock. "I, WRENCH MONKEY, WILL HAVE TO SHOW YOU YOUR PLACE AROUND HERE!"

"Oh really?" I say back. Ah, the advantage of having the microphone. "I'd love to see you try!" I flip on The Final Countdown. I spend a moment deliberating how I best want to handle this hero. He looks strong, and other than my own body armor, I am no tougher than any other human.

>>222040
"You think you can throw a wrench in my plans? Stop monkeying around!"

FX a sameplace teleport while you throw the puns he was probably going to use into his face. Spend the whole battle teleporting away from his attacks with tenth-of-a-second teleports of a single meter. Continue to pun as much as you can.

WE SHALL TROLL HIM INTO SUBMISSION.

>>222040
> Wrench Monkey
Seriously? A neanderthal trucker? It figures not everyone can be as cool as the Earth Defense Force.

>>222045
I support this. Do that thing where you teleport around everywhere and generally make an ass of yourself. Like a villainous Nightcrawler. Teleport Spam!
Throw in the occasional kick or throw something while you're at it, dependent on range. The battle continues until he either gives up, or this strategy proves ineffective, in which case you can just run away. The important thing is to look cool!

We only have one FX, though, so you should only use it if you're going to do something totally awesome that will make it back tenfold. That may be a good rule to follow in general.

yes your teleport power gives you seemingly infinite speed.

>>222061
Not infinite, but 10 meters a second is *really* fast for things that aren't projectiles. This is going to be our insanely-powerful fallback until the heroes eventually figure out how to jam it.

Wind up a punch, throw it, and teleport right behind him right as you reach the end of your swing. Now he's on fire AND he's been sucker-punched in the neck. Really, the possibilities for abuse are endless.

Ooo, if you can arbitrarily decide what comes with you, teleport yourself to be standing on his wrench, then teleport yourself and the wrench a few feet above him!

Trade some cocky dialogue first so you can get a feel for this guy and his style.

"And what can you do? Repair bicycles? I hope you can repair wheelchairs, because you'll soon be needing one if you go up against ME!"

At some point in the fight you should lure him to the end of the stage, teleport onto his shoulders and kick off, sending him over the edge. We should probably use our single FX either during the pinnacle of the fight or for when Blacwick is about to leave.

>>222040
Karaoke.
Remember! Your entire shtick is being incredibly annoying! If he refuses to accept a Karaoke challenge and tries to attack you, then you can call him a dishonorable brute and really annoy him.
Then use your teleporting powers to stay out of his reach and proceed to sing anyway. He'll just lose it, and once you've caused him enough irritation you can just declare yourself the winner and leave.

Next time, we will challenge the heroes to a childrens card game.

>>222040
"Wrench Monkey? What's your power? Masturbating and flinging poo at people? I'd rather not se how you wrench your monkey. Thank you very much."
Imply he's gay.
A lot.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/25(Wed)02:12 No. 222079 ID: a6008c
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Mmhmm, mmhmm, yes... That's what I'll do. I'll challenge him to karaoke, and just keep teleporting out of his reach while I sing at him. Yeah, that'll do the trick.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/25(Wed)02:12 No. 222080 ID: a6008c
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"I shall challenge you to a holy shit what!" He's building a staircase up to me! When did that happen!?

>>222080
So teleport someplace and issue your challenge already.

How good is he at building stairs? Any good way to just knock it over if you teleport to the bottom? Oh, wait. The bridge appears to be made of wooden planks, and your teleport is made of fire. Start 'porting to each step in rapid sequence.

Suggestion 2010/08/25(Wed)02:22 No. 222083 ID: aa46f1
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>>222080
Instant construction powers! Man, if we had our full fire powers, we could just burn anything he constructs. As it stands, why don't you teleport around in a way that he has to keep building things to get to you? Eventually he'll fill the entire place with stairs and walkways, like some sortof M. C. Escher painting.
It won't actually solve anything, but it will be totally awesome.

>>222083
THIS. Your purpose is to annoy, and the end result should be a boss fight in an MC-Escher nightmare world of platforms.

Then you can begin singing David Bowie at him.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/25(Wed)02:46 No. 222088 ID: a6008c
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I teleport to the bottom of the stairs just before he swings his hammer at me. That's one thing about teleport, I end up facing the same direction at the end point, no matter which way I moved.

I consider attempting to force him to build in crazy random ways, but really, from the top of the stadium, you can get basically anywhere else with just a short hop, except for the performance area itself. Which the staircase he just build leads to. A brilliant idea, but it won't work here. Maybe at a multi-layer department store, it would. One of the ones with the hollowed out middles.

I can't actually burn anything with my teleport, either coming or going. The fire isn't actually there, it is purely aesthetic.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/25(Wed)02:47 No. 222089 ID: a6008c
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Quickly, I turn around, and shout out, "Wrench Monkey! We shall do battle via karaoke!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/08/25(Wed)02:47 No. 222090 ID: a6008c
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Ow hammer to the face.

"Are you stupid!?" He says back. "I really don't think you're quite cut out for villainy, Baron!"

I think I might actually need to take this seriously, or this could actually hurt. A lot.

"YEAH WELL WHO THROWS A WRENCH"

>>222090
> I really don't think you're cut out for villainy!
Okay. We tried to handle this like gentlemen. But if he wants to fight, we'll fight dirty. Because we're evil.
Get back up to where our candles are. Tip them over onto his constructed stairway, so they light the place on fire. Tip them onto the wooden stage. Anything that's flammable. Can teleport light things up, or is that just for show? After that, we just have to distract him long enough for the whole place to go up in flames.

Make a mental note to buy a blowtorch after we get out of here.

It sounds like our only weapon is the ability to warp around like a ninny. Oh boy. For now, we need to stay away from wrenches, and possibly just get him generally riled up enough to make a mistake. Face him, teleport onto his shoulders, then as he grabs for you 'port in front of him and land a solid karate-fueled kick to the junk.

>>222091
Note: He threw a hammer.

But yeah, set everything on fire. Then dramatically fight him on top of the burning stage, using that hammer he just threw. If you can, light the hammer on fire too!

Smash him with karaoke machine! Then collapse the whole damn stage on his ass if you can figure out how.

>>222090
Baron, what are you doing? You haven't said even one smug and/or condescending line to him! You're giving him the advantage in your battle of quips (which should be ongoing as you actually battle) without even trying. Honestly! We've suggested out a fair number of decent comments.

Remember, you're a villain, which means that you're probably going to be defeated and have to flee. But the whole point is to give a good showing and/or come off well, in spite of the fact that you're frequently defeated. You don't do that by first goggling at the hero's abilities and then just being silly. You need to be witty, do clever things, and generally make the fight entertaining for anyone who might be watching.


On a more constructive note, I would point out that in addition to the available potential for fire, concert stages usually have fairly heavy electrical hookups, since those giant speakers really suck up the juice. Depending on location, sometimes they've got the generators right there, often gas-powered. If at some point you get him distracted, you might be able to use those to shock him/blow him up.

Also, if he's on the very top of the stage you might be able to surprise him and kick him off it. Falling from that height would probably hurt.

If we really start getting our ass kicked, we can bluff that we've rigged the concert stage to explode and that he'll never find the bomb, then flee and hopefully escape pursuit while he looks for a nonexistent bomb. Assuming he buys it.

*sigh* In the future, we should prepare our sites with more contingency plans. We should have wired the stage with bombs (and fireworks). And arranged to take some concertgoers hostage, preferably after bribing one or more of them to secretly be on our side. And we should have brought a blowtorch, a couple firebombs, or similar. We didn't necessarily have to USE any of those things, but it would be nice to have them. The point here being that as we selected where to strike, there's a home field advantage to be had which we've kind of squandered in favor of relying exclusively on our powers.

Don't forget to use FX if a particularly dramatic moment happens. Like, standing above the roaring flames, saying "HOW DARE YOU STRIKE BARON OBSIDIAN BLACK WICK!"

...uh, try not to set yourself on fire during this fight. That would be embarrassing.

>>222090
"Unprovoked violence? What a hero!"

Grab the hammer, then teleport up the stairs and shove him off.

Something built that fast CAN'T be built well...

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/01(Wed)21:14 No. 224826 ID: b5a616
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My pride's been hurt. I can't stand for this. He's right - I'll need to get my act together, or this will be a hopelessly lost cause. I launch into an invigorating monologue.

"Oh really? This, coming from the Neanderthal trucker? Maybe I have been a little silly. Maybe I haven't been taking you seriously. That's about to change. I'm done monkeying around with you!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/01(Wed)21:15 No. 224827 ID: b5a616
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"Hah! That's more like it, Baron!" He stomps his foot on the stairs, and they collapse into a ramp! He slides down after me! "Too bad I am ending this here! Get ready for the Wrench Wrider Ultra!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/01(Wed)21:15 No. 224828 ID: b5a616
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Thankfully, I am not entirely without supplies. I bought some smoke bombs for the battle, and now is as good a time as any to put one to use. I toss one at the base of the ramp, creating a sudden burst of smoke! This will give me the second I need to charge up my teleport.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/01(Wed)21:16 No. 224829 ID: b5a616
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His target lost, he continues sliding down at high speeds. I warp out of the way just as he breaks the cloud, and he goes flying off of the stage and into the stands.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/01(Wed)21:16 No. 224830 ID: b5a616
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"Hahah! What's the matter, monkey? Sitting down on the job? I thought you said something about ending all of this." Man I love having the microphone. He's down for the moment, but I think he'll be back up before I know it. I should prepare some kind of counterattack.

Alright, to make FX usage more suggestion based, rather than my discretion based, I'm going to use this system: If you want Black Wick to use an FX during a particular scene, say so in your suggestion. FX can be thought of as Rule of Cool modifiers to a situation - they can turn a complete loss into a regular loss, a loss into a victory, and a victory into a crushing victory.

The Widescreen panel in this update is an example of how an FX can be used to turn a situation around. An FX was not used, but normally, a turn around like that would need one. Because the only suggestions mentioning FX usage beforehand were "whenever it might be cool," and that is a useless standard to hold FX usage to because they will always be cool, an FX was not used there. Black Wick still has 1 FX. Spend it wisely.

Continue to gloat. When he throws something at you, use an FX to catch it. Then teleport behind him and knock him out.

>>224832

That doesn't work, he'll still be facing with his back to the monkey. No, no. Something more classy.

Wait until he's about to get up, TELEPORT IN FRONT OF HIM, and then KO him with his own hammer.

"Tonight's the night this chimp GOT TOO CURIOUS."

>>224832
If he doesn't throw anything, we'll need an alternate plan. I recommend picking up the microphone stand and using that for smacking him. Be aware that the teleport-smack will probably not work that many times, so play it careful. A microphone stand has a fair bit of reach, though it's a bit unbalanced, so make use of your range for large, powerful swings. And don't forget about your orientation when you do it! If you start winding up a blink, be turn so that you'll be hitting him with it when you shift spots.

Idea for later: Taking your cape, teleporting just behind/above him, and then dropping it over his face and tying it off/strangling him with it. Though perhaps you should save that idea for another battle, when you can get a cape specially modified to make that trick work out. Inbuilt chemical packets and piano wire, that sort of thing.

>>224832
Genius.

>>224830
"Seemed I started sportingly singing to save my skin?
Mayhap monkey minds make many misguided mistakes?
Continue constructing crude contraptions; brute brawn begets baleful bumbling."

>>224832
This. If he charges you, however, then teleport behind him with another smoke bomb and kick him in the back of his head with a DRAMATIC EXPLOSION FX with a splitscreen view of your eyes as you say "Pathetic".
Then leave.

>>224830
I like the original plan of lighting the place on fire. That way, even after we leave, we'll have destroyed their concert. We don't have much in the way actual fire starting, though, except for the candles.

Let's use an FX to appear back on top of the stadium, sweeping our cape and fire effects around dramatically to topple the candles around to catch everything on fire. Possibly while the fire makes some cool visual effect. Normally candles might take awhile to light things up, but with added FX it just might work.
He turned his stairway into a ramp, so he can't get back up without changing it again or building a new one. He'll be forced to decide between fighting you or the fires. Then you can say something witty, laugh at his failure to stop whichever one he didn't go for, and then teleport away. Laughing the whole time!

>>224830
Grab something decently heavy. Teleport over him, say 3 to 5 metres up. Fall with heavy object towards him. Heavy object slams down on him and you stand atop of it shouting "WRYYYYYYYYYY!" before giving him a couple of extra kicks to make sure he's down.

Then it's monologue time, pointing out what a weak and useless foe he was and how this wasn't even a challenge for you.

Take his hammer and hammer him in the butt like how Abe Lincoln died.

Your decently heavy melee weapon should not be his own wrench. It should be a nice sturdy electric guitar.

You will stand atop the stage, amid all your candles, and strum a powerchord as pyrotechnics go off around you. Then you shall dive off the stage with the guitar and meteor-smash your opponent. That is how you should expend your final FX for this fight, and regardless of whether he stands up again afterward or not, it would be time to extricate yourself from the scene.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/04(Sat)16:39 No. 226051 ID: 2dd0ba
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You grab the guitar off the stage, then teleport up to the top. You have a show to put on.

1 FX Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/04(Sat)16:41 No. 226052 ID: 2dd0ba
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With a powerful strum of the guitar, your candles' flames fly up to the heavens. As the piercing wail of the guitar screams into the night, you shout, "Wrench Monkey! You were no match for one such as I, even from the beginning. I am the Baron Obsidian, Black Wick! Remember my name!"

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/04(Sat)16:42 No. 226053 ID: 2dd0ba
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As the candles die down, I slide down the ramp provided by Wrench Monkey, guitar at the ready.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/04(Sat)16:42 No. 226055 ID: 2dd0ba
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BREEEE-OOOOOOOON!!!

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/04(Sat)16:43 No. 226056 ID: 2dd0ba
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I begin to laugh maniacally as I make my escape. Last week, I would be fired for that. This week, it's my job.

Mission Accomplished.
>Paycheck: 1100$, 6 FX.
>The Mayor is offering you a Supervillain Starter Kit for 8 FX! It includes any two of the following items: Invulnerability power, Super Strength power, Flight power, or a Minion 6 Pack of your choice. This is a limited time offer.

What a nice guy,that mayor.

>>226056
Sounds good, do we get our choice of any two or is it random? If we get to pick I'd like that minion pack and some Super Strength.

>>226056
Invulnerability! We totally need that. I mean, that hammer HURT. And if we're resistant to damage, that means we can screw around with people more.
Super Strength isn't that big a deal -- lifting things is what we have minions for, we'll eventually be able to teleport mighty objects along with us, and our major damaging power is going to be shooting fireballs at people. And, because we can teleport, flight isn't too important either. It's actually MORE awesome if we do flippy acrobatic shit while still adhered to gravity.
I'm going to suggest we get Invulnerability and a Minion Pack. Some guys to boss around would be useful, don't you think?

The Mayor is a cool guy. I'm saying we should get Invulnerability and Flight, because we're kinda frail, and we can add a fire effect to the flight to keep with the theme.

>>226056
I say Invulnerability and Flight. We are the villainous troll, what better than a supertroll you can't hurt or even reach? Besides it's much more dignified to not have to climb and clamber over things.

>>226056
Can we take invulnerability twice? If not that, i vote minions as well.
Also, how much is the next level of teleport sitting at?

>>226056
Yeah, Minions and Invuln are best options. What kind of minions did we decide on? I liked the knight suggestion, I think that fits Baron.

And don't forget to buy an extra FX or two for the next encounter. You've still got that $100 from last time, right? That should be just enough for 4 FX, then, two to use on the deal, and two to save.

>>226056
Invurnebility power and super streangth.

The teleportation is nice but you can still get hit, so something against that would be nice. And while it's cool and all to be fast and teleporty that doesn't actually help alot if you can't hurt them. So having your punches pack a bit more of power isn't a bad thing

Minions and such can come later when you have established yourself and built up a reputation. Then it's time for the minions and the secret bases.

Oh, and your next heist should be a network building. Take an anchor crew hostage and call out your nemesises on live television, then defeat and humiliate them on live television as well. That should make you quite famous.

>>226056
Flying and invulnerability!

It may seem like flying and teleportation are redundant, but they actually complement each other quite nicely. Our options with teleporting go up drastically if we don't have to worry about teleporting onto a platform that can support our weight. We can just teleport into midair, and throw fireballs at them from every angle! Once we can do that.

Plus we've got a cape. Why would we have a cape if we're not going to fly? That's just silly.

Invulnerability because, as someone else has pointed out, getting hit with stuff hurts.

I think we should get Invulnerability and Flight for now. Minions would be nice but we should have a base before we get any of those.

>>226099
hmmm, sound reasoning. go with it.

Invulnerability and Ninjas.

invulnerability plus minions.

Teleport AND flight is only useful in City of Heroes, and even that is only teleport + hover.

I have to ask just HOW invulnerable the starting level is, but invulnerability + minions is absolutely our best deal out of there. Flight is sort of silly when you can already fly at 10 m/s by using teleport. Super strength is for heroes, though it's amusing to see someone with super strength but NOT invulnerability try to punch through a wall.

Invulnerability and Super Strength!

You may claim its only for heroes, but come on, being ale to lift up cars is awesome! and it helps in causing havoc. You can't rely on only minions, thats why they are minions and your the Boss!

>>226056
Invest all your cash into FX. Get Invulnerability and Flight, for synergy and the better to troll with. Save the rest to burn during your next plan.

>Oh, and your next heist should be a network building.
I don't know, that's moving a bit fast, isn't it? I'd be inclined to do something more stylish and somewhat less high-profile; no need to attract too many heroes while we're still a junior supervillain. But what? There are so many options...

I think what we need to do here is decide upon a theme cause. We have our flame, black, and general trolling for how we look and act; what we need beyond that is something that we villain for. Something to drive us (at least in our villain character, even if we don't actually care about it), something to plan new operations around.

I propose that our general cause, our reason for villainy, be breaking loose from what society wants- and trying to inspire others to do the same. Because it wants people to be sheep, to work nine to five jobs and spend their measly paychecks on useless consumer crap, to spend all their free time either watching TV or trying to convince the opposite sex to pair up with them and have 2.5 kids.

So don't do things the way you're supposed to. If you want something, take it. If you don't like something, destroy it. If you're feeling whimsical, be silly without embarrassment; if you're feeling violent, be destructive without restraint. Don't go through channels, don't work with authority and submit the proper forms, don't obey the law unless you feel like it. Just live your life the way you've always wanted to- as a villain, no one can stop you.

This gives us a few guidelines on what we should be doing. In general, our plans should be quite public, should involve doing something fun (such as a hard rock concert) or getting rid of something annoying (like country music), and we should be completely free to be whimsical in how we do things. Additionally, we should encourage others to be equally nonstandard in their actions and choices (see: proposed karaoke duel).

Random potential plans in theme with this: Hijacking cars/boats and ramming them into things to see what happens, painting a skyscraper with napalm and lighting it up as an art project, holding a school hostage to educate the students on the wonders of villainy and breaking rules over the PA system, breaking into your favorite game developer's studio and publicly releasing the alpha version of their newest game online, challenging another villain in a "first one to [do whatever] wins" contest and letting nothing stand in your way.


Alternately, someone else may have a better suggestion than my gut reaction to being someone who's worked in a grocery store for five years and has suddenly been given all the power and options of a full-blown supervillain.

Define:
>Invulnerability

Also:
>Print Current Resources (Money, FX)

>>226189
>SS and not invulnerable = physics
I'm pretty sure this setting works on comic book logic in those regards.

>>226191
Hmm, anarchy eh. That sounds like it could actually be pretty god damn fun.

But you know with that theme it actually makes quite a bit of sense to take over a network station. That way we can get our message out to the masses. And because it's such a public thing to do we should earn a fair amount of FX and cash for it.

And if we get famous enough from it then we have a decent shot at getting a contract with a network, possibly that one. On them having exclusive right to film our projects and know about them a bit beforehand and being the news outlet we go through to tell the public about our heists. We could probably also get cash through that contract to get more FX for and set up even more daring and awesome heists.

>>226203
We have 1200$ and 6 FX. at least 550 is suposed to be used for setting up our next encounter.

Other details are in the discussion thread.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/questdis/res/331895.html#i332004

I think we should get Invuln and Minions.

Invulnerability and super strength go pretty well hand in hand, but I really, REALLY think Blacwick needs some minions. Invulnerability and minions is probably the best plan. Only leaves us with 2FX for the next encounter, but that's at least twice as good as the one we've just had.

If we do get minions then I think at least 2 of the 6 minions should be female (for fighting the female superheroes in superhero teams). I'm thinking they should be a set of demon ninja bodyguards. The bat theme is a bit too much batman.

Hopefully Blackwick should be mostly set up with this starter pack so he can start spending some of his future money on comic books and good food. Have a look around to see what other villains are doing as well. Maybe we can top them.

I worry about minions mostly because we lack a base... I mean, minions assumingly probably are supposed to stay at the base until needed. 6 guys just standing around are probably going to get annoying or bored and then disloyal.

>>226191
I have to second this.

>>226191
This.

>>226398
They can crash at our place, dude. Just buy lots of pretzels and beer.

Voting for MINIONS (Ninja, 4-male 2-female) and FLYING (for aerial teleportation). Use some of the obligatory $550 spending on items for AERIAL BOMBARDMENT - provided that we do purchase Flight.

>>226427
Doesn't buying more FX pretty much automatically count as helping to set up our next encounter? What are we going to use it for but fighting heroes?

>>226434
I have no idea what counts as being used "towards setting up your next encounter", but since there was no problem with spending all of it on FX before I think you might be right.

>>226191
Agreed.
Let's make this guy into a Rastin!

>>226056
Invulnerability and Flight.
Invulnerability is a "Must Have!" power because dying sucks and being able to survive in space is great for when heroes blow-up your moonbase.

(That can be prevented by making it a safe haven for innocent civilians who are part of an oppressed and/or hated minority.)

Flight's just damn useful.

Suggestion 2010/09/05(Sun)21:28 No. 226679 ID: 44d67c
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Most everyone is voting for Invulnerability and Flight. Minions is but a somewhat distant third.
So does anyone care about what form our flight will take? Style is everything, you know.

>>226679
How about thin flame aura? Emanating from the body a little bit, trails behind out attacks and stuff and fades behind like a comet as we move quickly? A balance of subtle and flashy and it isn't too stereotypical.

>>226689
I do like this idea... like leaving a blurring effect behind us as we move, only with fire, right? And how far behind us it goes would increase with speed, so that we look flashier as we go faster. Sort of like the thruster effect, only from our form in general instead of a specific part of us.

yeah, sounds cool. and when we port the flames would brighten and then vanish with us.

>>226689
Voting for THIN FLAME AURA. Subtle. Seething. Dramatic.

>>226689
>>226705
>>226706
Looks like we have a consensus

>>226679
Some motherfucking flame wings. Because that's fucking metal, and if we ever decide to crash another concert they will be fucking awesome. Blackwick comes gliding in on his wings of flame and steals the stage.

And they're sort demonic and sinister looking as well. Looks more like something a villain would have.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)03:37 No. 226826 ID: 2dd0ba
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After a long debate, I eventually settle on Invulnerability and Flight for my powers. Invulnerability, as it turns out, is actually just a catch-all term for things hurting less, so after talking to the mayor about it I come up with a way to combine my new powers into one. My invulnerability takes the form of a thin, fiery aura that cushions blows, and allows me to fly. On the upside, very stylish, and if I have it active, my teleporting will leave fiery afterimages. It should also protect me from most environmental hazards, since it is an actual aura around me instead of just iron skin or something, but I think water would trump it. On the downside, very obvious, and not always active. But that's workable.

And since I can fly now, I can ignore how weirdly sideways City Hall is when I come here.

I ask the mayor about spending money on FX to meet the required spending per heist, and he says yes that is fine. I then spend my money on 2 FX, and realize I am completely out of cash. Hm.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)03:37 No. 226827 ID: 2dd0ba
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Good thing I didn't quit my job. I'll need a bit of cash to tide me over before my next heist. I'm thinking about going to some department store and destroying a section or two of merchandise. You know. Because I can.

About an hour in to work, "James Blacwick, to the manager's office. James Blacwick, manager's office" rings over the PA, interrupting my villainous musings.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)03:38 No. 226828 ID: 2dd0ba
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I go and see what he wants, and he shows me this morning's paper. "Is this you, kid? I can't have no super villains working at the front register! It'd kill our public image!"

...Hmm.

>>226828
"I guess you'd better promote me, then."

>>226828
Time to show Mr Beewick that you don't fuck around with supervillains. Activate your fiery aura, walk up to him and tell him that then you can stop working the register. As long as the paycheck keeps coming there isn't going to be any problems, but if he stops paying, well then things might get nasty.

Hmm, you know with that new aura you can probably do some fairly spectacular stunts for entry and stuff, or for just looking cool. Like lighting a house on fire and walking through it like a menacing badass.

Looks like we got our new heist right here, we will take over this tiny grocher!
No wait, that's to small time, is it part of a chain? Then take over the entire chain!

>>226828
Deny it. See, there's no k in your name. It's a common mistake, people get you two confused all the time. It's really straining your relationships. That you don't have. Because everyone thinks you are some kind of super villain. It's a tragedy, really.

Seconding on the promotion thing, but he might not find it all that appealing. We could also say we can terrorize some of the competing supermarkets with our next event. A bit of structural or other kind of damage will take time to fix, not put any attention on this store while incidentally pushing business this way.

>>226828
It's just as well, heroes are more likely to attack if you're just standing out front like that.
I'm against making a scene. After all, we only get diplomatic immunity if we're explicitly trying to lure out heroes. Also, we kindof need the money.
If we do make a scene, make sure it's a BIG scene. We absolutely have to make sure some heroes show up, and then don't use up all the money on superpowers. A villain has to eat, ya know!

Otherwise... we could be a stock boy? They hang around in back, mostly. They probably don't have to wear that paper hat.
I really hate that paper hat.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)04:16 No. 226848 ID: 2dd0ba
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"I guess you'd better promote me."

"Exactly what I was thinking, kid. Talents like that? Teleporting, fire, all that shebazzle? Yeah, that'll really help out with the bakery! Tell you what, I'll double your current wage and throw ya' in the bakery. They only hafta work 30 hours a week, but you'll still be making half again as much as ya' did before. And in exchange, I just want ya' t', you know. Deal with some of our competitors. You think you can do that, kid?"

"Can I please not wear that stupid hat?"

"Yes."

"Deal."

And that is how I got more money and more free time, in addition to transferring to a job that lets me use my teleporting all day. And no stupid paper pig hat. Nice.

Now to plan my next heist.

"Oh, and ah, if you ever need info on any other super villains, kid, I know it all. I'm a big fan of the bad boys. So feel free to stop in any time." Boss Bewick adds.

...Huh.

>>226848
Dude you have the best boss ever. He's totally awesome. And who doesn't love working with ]bread? Shit yes, bread!

>>226848
Ask him about your dad.

>>226851
Oh, hey, this is a good idea. Uh, Blackwing, he would know him as. Speaking of your dad, you could ask if he knows any way we can get to the moonbase. Like, a shuttle service or something.

>>226851
Actually, yeah, ask him about Blackwing. We probably won't learn anything new, but it's always nice to hear stories.
Also ask him if there are any noteworthy villains he does or doesn't like. It would be good to know who to emulate or rival.

>>226848
> Now to plan my next heist.
We already have a target! We go into one of our store's rivals and wreck up the place.
We should probably have a few extra backup plans this time. Things almost didn't go so hot against Wrench Monkey.

>>226857
Our villain will enter the store, expect some level of service or quality that it is sorely lacking in, and flip out and trash the place. If no heroes show up while he's doing that we port out and start wrecking the parking lot and surrounding structures in our rage. Pretty much free reign on the villainy side of things.

Dealing with heroes will be easier since we can fly and all, and nail them with embarrassing attacks like throwing eggs and fruit at them. As long as we can make them look stupid and fly away safely we should pull out a victory.

>>226866
actually, you get stuff regardless of win or lose. EDF got paid when they first fought us even though they lost. so as long as the hero doesn't catch us and we stay in character we will still get money and FX.

>>226857
>>226866
No, no, no... You guys aren't getting it.
The goal is to be horribly annoying.

Go to a competitor.
Buy a few hundred dollars worth of gum.
Pay in nickles.
Use your teleportation power to keep transactions going in every lane at the same time.
Immediately take it all to customer service and demand a refund in pennies so they can't just give you back the nickles.
Insist on counting it right there yourself.
Intentionally screw up, then claim they short-changed you and demand they give you the difference.
Immediately go buy more gum with the pennies.
Return gum to a different store.
Repeat as needed.

>>226877
Since we don't need to win could let the heroes win once or twice, that way they will be caught off guard when we REALLY need to win and go all out. As long as we stick to our theme and make it look good we still earn maximum FX.

>>226886
No, the goal has always been to lure out heroes. That's how we get paid. We just want to be annoying while doing it.
Being a terrible customer isn't worthy of heroic interference. We have to actually do something that would cause major disruption.

>>226877 >>226890
We should at least give a token effort at winning, though. We don't want to come off as soft. But why not have fun with it?

>>226895
of course, we will TRY to win. but if the hero is a lot more powerful then us, it's not a problem to flee is all i'm saying.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)06:12 No. 226899 ID: 2dd0ba
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I decide to ask Mr. Bewick about my father.

"Blackwing, huh? Yeah, I know about him. He's been quite the menace over in Europe. Took over Spain for a couple weeks in there. But he died, pretty recently, so you shouldn't hafta worry about him."

"Hmm. Good to know."

We talk a bit more, and he discovers my current lack of funding. "Oh, go on, take the rest of the day off. Use it to get some cash from that grocer across the street from us." He encourages me. "I'll punch out for ya' when your shift's up."

I thank him, and head on out.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)06:12 No. 226900 ID: 2dd0ba
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I leave my place of employment, Pig'Em's Grocery, and head on over to Icy's Deli and Dairy.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)06:13 No. 226901 ID: 2dd0ba
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A cute girl is working behind the front desk. I ask her if she has my order ready. She says no, they don't take orders. I say I called in an order for 30 pounds of sausage. She says they don't even take private calls. I say this is important for my business. She says I should have called their supplier, then. I decide to take advantage of one additional perk of my newfound fire aura.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)06:13 No. 226902 ID: 2dd0ba
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Instant suit up. I demand the order I clearly placed and that they are obviously forgetting, or else I will be forced to make them significantly less icy.

1 FX Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)06:13 No. 226903 ID: 2dd0ba
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The cute girl behind the counter disagrees, as I take an icy blast to the face. "There's your order. I'm going to have to ask you to leave, sir."

...ARGH GOD DAMN IT IS SO COLD IT BURNS WHAT IS THE POINT OF BODY ARMOR IF THEY KEEP HITTING ME IN THE FACE. Argh, that tore right through my fire shield. On the upside, I found a hero.

Ice vs Fire? This Debbie is our natural enemy!

"Chill out, Debbie!"

>>226908
no wait "chill out, debbie, things are about to HEAT UP"

>>226903
"Oh, hey, you're pretty cute out of disguise. Want to go out for drinks after your shift?"

>>226909 >>226910
"Hey, baby, you're pretty HOT."

>>226903
Shit, this is gonna be tough. Her ice beats your flame, your flames have no fucking heat to counter her, and she seems to have wings on top of it all. Let's not count too much on winning here, let's just focus on trashing the place. And being awesome in the process of course.

"You call THIS customer service? You're going to need more than a cute face and cold fingers to keep my business!" As you do this spend an FX to teleport, restrain her and smile at her. Then teleport/toss her into the nearest isle full unstably stocked goods.

...Yes, you ARE going to hit on her relentlessly.

And note to self, get a damn protective mask later.

>>226920
No, no fighting.
Just evade her attacks and wait for her to respond, then knock a few shelves over while asking her how insurance works with this hero/villain thing.

yeah, evade and make HER cause all the collateral damage.

What's with the cold shoulder? I was expecting more of a warm reception. Let's break the ice over hot coffee later and then we can work up some steam.

>>226921
>>226923
Spending an FX on the face to face moment is what was important in that, especially since she might not expect teleportation yet. We can just poof away from her reaction instead of making an attack.

>>226920 >>226926
Instead of attacking, why not steal the cash register? The whole damn thing. After all, we came here for money. Use an FX to help out (cash registers are heavy), while leaning in nice and close.
Then dodge and weave and dodge and weave and spill constant unending puns while hitting on her. Offer to give her back the register in exchange for a date.

>>226929
I like it, but maybe taking the register should wait until later when the store is trashed and we don't need to carry it around. Of course whenever we give back the register, it will be without money in it.

Heat puns, all the way!

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)08:12 No. 226948 ID: 2dd0ba
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"C'mon, Debbie, cool down a bit."

"Sorry, but I think you're a bit too fired up." She conjures a group of icicles, and takes to the air. Man she's tiny. Like a fairy.

1 FX (1 Remaining) Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)08:14 No. 226950 ID: 2dd0ba
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I teleport out of the way as the barrage flies where I was, but a moment ago. "Ha. Say, you're pretty cute, you know? Wanna get some drinks after this?" Man, I can't believe I am saying this to a girl shooting deadly icicles at me, let alone a really cute one. I guess this super villainy has done a lot for my confidence.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)08:14 No. 226951 ID: 2dd0ba
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She giggles. "It's not Debbie, while we're working. The name's Angel Frost. You?"

"Black Wick." I notice she completely ignored the question... but we are at work, aren't we. "The Baron Obsidian."

"Very well, Black Wick... let's take this outside. I don't want to have to clean this up."

...Hmm. And I was planning on taking that cash register, but if I do that she'll probably say no to the date. I take a step back. She's stopped shooting, so I have a moment to think, at least. Hold to my morals, or try for a date with this adorable fairy girl?

...I'll need this moment.

>>226951
"Well I was supposed to do some kind of a number on this place... and I am a villain after all. Tell you what, you win and drinks are on me, I win and drinks are on your cash register. If that's too much a problem for you, we'll go dutch."

>>226957
Actually... yeah, do this. We'll step outside, and the winner gets the store.

>>226957
This, but leave off the last part. We're a VILLAIN. We offer no compromise. (although maybe we'll accept one if she comes up with something good)

>>226960
Ah, but we are a more insidious villain. By giving her the option of gambling her stores register, we corrupt her a little bit because its loss or potential loss is partially her fault, just because she didn't want to split the tab. If she decides not to go for it, we haven't caused her any trouble so she won't be mad with us.

And in every case, she's still going out for drinks with us. Or she might refuse that entirely, then we steal the register regardless. We win in every case.

>>226957
This one should work.

Just keep that last FX handy. If it looks like we're going to loose then we need to teleport in and nab the cash register and then use the last FX for a dramatic exit.

Dude, we're fucked. She's THE STRONGEST.

Go for the date, and just rob the computer store.

Or hell, come back later, when she's off her shift.

>>226957
Thiiiis.

I reckon Boss Bewick didn't send Blacwick across the road for the cash register money, he sent him over to fight this girl because that's a lot of money right there.

Just focus on giving her a good battle. Lots of clever banter and smooth seduction lines like "My flames can't hurt a beauty like you, but perhaps my smile can set your heart on fire?"

Also try getting in a good hit on her wings midflight. They're her most obvious weakness. You could always teleport down to catch her if needed.

The safest place for her icicle attack is directly in front of her.

>>227077
Speaking of which, charge up teleport. If she tries anything, move.
Also we should try to find a way to beat her without hitting her. After all, beating a girl into submission isn't a good way to get a date.

>>227082
Getting her wings tied, tangled and otherwise restrained is a good way to go. Maybe splashing water on her will make it freeze up a bit, but she might take offense to getting her already skimpy clothes wet. Entangling her by pulling her dress up over her is similar but much better/worse in every good/bad way. Let's not do so, but lets imagine doing so. Mmm.

>>227086
I like the way you think. Mmm.

Anyway, lets examine our surroundings, see what there is to use. Also our aura/teleport does it give off actual heat or is it just a visual thing? Because at the moment we don't really have any offensive stuff.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)18:59 No. 227201 ID: 2dd0ba
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I've been on a roll so far. Let's run with it.

"Well I was supposed to do some kind of a number on this place... and I am a villain after all. Tell you what, you win and drinks are on me, I win and drinks are on your cash register."

"Hah. I'll take you up on that, Black Wick." She says coyly, putting her hand on my chest. "A hothead like you can't help but take risks, can he~?"

Her hand is cold to the touch. That's actually pretty refreshing. "Sorry, Angel, I as just trying to fire you up. You seem a bit too cold." Okay, now it's getting pretty darn cold.

She smiles. "Try it sometime, it's nice to just..."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)19:01 No. 227202 ID: 2dd0ba
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"Chill." Ack ice.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)19:02 No. 227203 ID: 2dd0ba
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She giggles as she drags me outside. "I get off of work at 5. You're paying~"

...Welp, that could have gone better. My fire aura is melting through the ice, though. It also healed by iceburn before. I guess it does have some minor fire properties to it, unlike my entirely-visual teleportation. I don't think I could burn someone with it unless I upgraded my aura, but I should be out of here before the police arrive. Which will give me a good 8 hours before I have to pick her up.

haha, well it's not so bad.

>>227203
Aaaahahaha. Okay, I have to give her credit. She got you good.

It's a date. You get paid either way, right? ... right?

Your boss might not be happy, though.

>>227203
Fail? Ha! On the contrary! We now know how the money is guarded, and when the guard's shift ends. We can go steal the money later after 5:00.

Not today though. We've got a date.

>>227203
Fail? HA! Not at all!
He finished an encounter, and got a date out of it.
His boss will be a bit displeased, but there are plenty of other stores he can bother.

The best part? He didn't break any laws, so the police can't do anything anyway.

>>227205
We can always beat up the other competitors. Surely there's more than two food stops in this town. Boss'll understand. He's a villain fan. And a little friendly competition is good for business.
Let's get out of here and see if we get paid for this. Don't spend the free half of money we get this time: we need some cash to live off of and pay for our hot date.

Maaan, I thought she was at least going to wait until you both went outside. But I guess she "took it outside" all the same. After you lost.

Hey, try to teleport out of the ice.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/09/06(Mon)19:42 No. 227216 ID: 2dd0ba
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After thawing, you head on over to the Mayor and pick up your paycheck so you can actually afford dinner tonight. He hands you 1100$ and 2 FX, bringing your total up to 3 FX.

Mayor Bloodswick asks you if you wish to declare Angel Frost your Nemesis! You can declare up to 2 heroes as your Nemesis.

naw. while she may have beat you due to perfect counter power set you probably don't want to fight her all the time.

>>227216
Lets hold off on that.
She might be interested in becoming your nemesis - getting paid for your dates? Fuck yea! - but it's much too soon for that.

well, you would get more money as she is your nemesis on conflict; however, it seems like in poor taste for now even if it would be easy to constantly 'encounter' her.

Anyways, buy 1 FX so we have a spare, improve the invulnerability aura with 3 FX (your getting hurt is going to make you look bad at this rate!), save some for date... and try to see if there is a 'villain surplus store' or some equivalent where you pick up stuff to help out your villany. You need some unexpected gadgets to help against these pesky heros!

>>227216
No, we're good with our current nemesis setup. While Angel Frost's powers and theme contrast nicely with out own she strikes me more as Catwoman character than say a true nemesis. If our date turns sour and we can't find anyone else she'd be a good fallback though.

Forget declaring a Nemesis, let's declare some minions. Specifically those EDF morons. They're goon level quality. Seriously, Green even has an 'evil destruction cannon'. They scream minion material. And what better way to get back at those jerks for declaring you their nemesis without any warning than claiming them as your lackeys?

>>227216
Let's see how the date goes, first.

Seconding an improvement on that aura, especially if it'd give us some (even minor) offensive power. Flaming punches ftw.

Tell him it depends on how your date goes tonight.

Also, ask if dating a nemesis is a totally unheard of thing.

>>227228
We're not declaring her a nemesis unless things go well.
If we do it now, then it looks like creepy stalker-type obsession.
If we do it after things go poorly, then it looks like sour grapes.
If we do it when things go ok, then it looks like creepy clinginess.

Save that nemesis slot for around the third date. If things are going well at that point then it'll be worth considering.

>>227216
We'll wait until we talk with her about it. If she's cool about it then we'll do it.

But while you're with the mayor... ask about if and how changing sides and teams temporarily works. Villains capturing and converting heroes, good guys going rogue for a while, heroes and villains teaming up against a greater threat, all that kinda stuff.

If we could someday convert Angel to darkness for a while that would be hot. I mean awesome.

>>227243
I'd also be interest in info on all of the above.

There is precedent for this situation.
Batman's nemesis is Joker.
Batman dated Catwoman.

In any event, one fight and maybe a date does not a nemesis make. No for now.

>>227220
Seconding motion to improve our invulnerability, although I would buy 2 extra FX and specifically target it towards resistance to energy attacks, like ice or those blasts that the Green Ranger was using. That spends our half the paycheck so we don't have to worry about it later, and puts us in good stead next time we run up against one of our previous opponents.

>>227262
Can we spend 3 points to double our teleportation carrying capacity?

>>227264
...for snatching people? That's a pretty good idea, but I'd leave it for later. We need to get more solid basic combat stats first. We've got the mobility essentials covered, but a little more durability and then a ranged attack- I'm thinking a concussive blast flavored as a bolt of fire, so that we don't really light everything up- and then we move on to more entertaining things.

I want to get super-speed at some point, because it would really help with the whole "not getting hurt" and "trolling" objectives.

>>227269
Personally I'm thinking control of fire. It goes well with our current theme and it's like fireballs with versatility.
This would be excellent for fighting Debbie, as we simply have to heat her up a lot, then all her ice is suddenly water and she is powerless.
Unless of course, she buys water powers too.
>>227264
Romantic. After we finish dinner we could teleport to a beach or park or somewhere in the moonlight.
Also, could we use an FX the same way on a date as in a fight? >:3

>>227269
If we're going to start snatching people then we'll also want to invest FX in Fire Aura so we can extend it around more people.

However, I think what we should spend our points on right now is healing powers- heal anybody we touch, including ourselves.

Let's not spend FX right now, the next thing we should get is an offensive fire power but that would leave us with 200 dollars and no spare FX. Save it up, go on our date and play it from there.

Maybe it's time to start upgrading the teleport, it's pretty ok for battle but we wanted it so we could get to the moonbase, remember?

>>227297
A villain with healing powers? I could go for personal regeneration, but healing that extends to others would likely be far less powerful when healing ourself... so it would require a lot of planning to use effectively. We'd need to come up with a very good long-term strategy for which healing would be necessary in order for it to be worth the investment, I think.

We might be able to roll regeneration into our fire aura, and subsequently make our aura expandable to cover both us and any allies/minions nearby as you suggest. That could give a certain level of healing ability to others as well as providing a whole suite of combat boosters, but I bet that it would not come cheap. Nor would it synergize with teleportation unless we had that at a high enough level to move around a whole group. And at that point we'd be turning into a team support character without a team, so we'd need to invest in higher-tier mooks than mere minions- we'd need a posse of (mini)bosses to act as our squad in order to capitalize on our powers.

Overall, I would rather not worry about making others able to benefit from our powers; it seems to me that making good use of that sort of thing is a very difficult road. Much easier and more flexible to focus exclusively on personal boosts. Unless you have very solid logic backing your ideas, I must opposed them.

>>227306
It would take dozens of FX to get our teleport up to moonbase-use levels. For the moment, we need to invest in our own long-term viability as a villain.

>>227303
Upgrading a power, rather than buying a new one, costs only 3 FX. Since we have to spend $550 on preparing our next job anyway, spending $600 on 2 FX and then spending 3 of them seems like the most reasonable course to me. Relatively low cost for a solid investment in the future.

>>227309
You don't seem to have caught on to the theme yet.
The purpose of the healing power is so that we can annoy the piss out of the heroes.

Showing up in costume is reason enough for a hero to show up, so what happens if we walk into an ER and start healing injured people?
The heroes have to respond, and when they do we can call them out on stopping us from healing innocent people.
That puts them in a catch-22; if they stop us then they're denying help to people in need, while if they let it go then they're not foiling a villain's plot.

Yeah yeah yeah this is all great discussion. But there is a discussion thread for this.

Blackwick just needs to buy two FX, chat with the mayor about whatever and continue with his day.

>>227216
Nah, no nemesis declarations yet.

But get some super streangth. You need some way to dish out damage as well. Then after that you can get some fire projectile power. And with that you would have the baseline powers you need for your villainy.

Lets just buy the FX and get going, we can decide what to get with them later.

Personaly I would say we start improving our teleportation, we got to start sometime or we will never get enought.

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After some thought, I purchase 2 more FX, and then tell the Mayor I'm going to spend 3 FX to improve my Fire Aura. This will leave me another 500$ for the date, which should be plenty. If it costs more than that I have a credit card, but I would rather not use it.

But when I tell the mayor about my plans, he seems to have other ideas. "Oh, so you want to improve your fire aura, eh? In what way? You can't just hand me a pickle cannon and tell me you want it better! You need to tell me how you want it better, or I might just put a different flavor of pickle innit and call it better!"

"Mayor, I really don't understand that analogy. What the hell are you-"

"DO YOU WANT A MACHINE GUN PICKLE CANNON, OR A DILL PICKLE CANNON, OR WHAT!?"

It turns out that there are all sorts of ways I can improve any given power. After I calm him down a bit, he offers a few suggestions for improvements on what I have now.

Teleportation Improvements
Carrying Capacity: Double the amount I can bring with me. Right now, this is just myself, so one upgrade would let me bring one extra person, or something about that big.
Distance: The upgrade I thought happened when I upgraded teleport. Increases my distance per second tenfold. 5 of these and I can get to the moon base in an hour. 8 of these and I can get there in half a minute.

Fire Aura Improvements
Reduced Impact: The shield is better able to prevent damage from attacks. I can specialize this improvement against specific kinds of attacks.
Faster Flight: This would allow me to fly more quickly than I currently do. Considering I can teleport, I am not sure this is absolutely necessary.
Fire Shield: Gives my aura actual fire properties. Meaning, I could burn shit with it.
Environmental Shield: Allows my fire aura to protect me from various environmental hazards, specified when I take the upgrade. Breathing in space seems to be one of the options!
Shield Ally: Blah blah I can protect someone else with fire who cares.

And no, I don't want any stupid healing powers. Maybe regeneration, but I am Black Wick, the Baron Obsidian, wielder of Fire and Rock. Healing is not part of my schtick.

reduced impact: general

I'll have to recommend the Fire Shield because burning things is pretty villainous. After that the Reduced Impact and Teleportation Carrying Capacity upgrades would be my second choices. If you can bring someone or something big along when teleporting then that opens up a lot of possibilities.

For the date, reserve tables at two decent restaurants. One vegetarian and one non-vegetarian. Once you find out what Debbie likes then cancel the one you won't go to.

>>227477
>breathing in space
Holy shit that means we could... wait no, we're too fucking slow to get to the moon by flying there, even teleport-assisted.

So yeah... uh, let's get Fire Shield because right now we have zero offensive powers.

Reduced impacts: Attacks directed at NOT IN THE FACE!

Long term:
-Carrying capacity will at least need to be upgraded once. How else are you going to ever kidnap maidens or steal cash registers?
-Distance is good later when we have enough FX to burn. 15 FX just for a half hour moon trip is a long time to payoff. Look into if we can just upgrade our base with a transporter.
-Reduced Impact is nice to have. Ask if this can specifically counter your ice and water weakness.
-Faster Flight is mostly unneeded, but combined with teleport means you'd be a damn hard fly to swat.
-Fire shield is directly offensive which is what you need. You still have a thin aura though so it'll only boost your physical attacks. Could melt you out of ice quick too. Ask if it is always on if it only burns at will.
-Environmental shield will let you breathe in space, get that before ever trying to teleport to the moon.

And on the note of healing, remember the theme of a phoenix isn't too far from your theme. When you have minions it would be a neat trick to suddenly heal them all.

Short term: Fire shield first, then get an actual fire throwing superpower when you can afford it. After that get carrying boost and reduced impact then other stuff.

And can we get fire shield to be not the whole aura all the time? Just be hot around our hands if we're punching something for example. A dynamic fire shield, if you will. That should prevent burning what we don't mean to as well.