dont_bug_me

Plots!

crossman.dylan@gmail.com — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:40:23 GMT

Thunderbolts
"Lightning Strikes Twice"

1) While trying to prevent an AIM cell from stealing an experimental matter duplication device from a M.I.T. lab, the Thunderbolts are exposed to the device's radiation when it goes off and are duplicated. With twice as many T-Bolts suddenly in the fight, AIM doesn't stand a chance.

2) Social scenes while they try to figure out what happened (which definitely needs to include a visit from Steve Barton). During this time, the doubles slowly start showing signs of being slightly off.

3) The doubles turn on an imprison their counterparts. They then go steal the device from M.I.T. themselves.

4) bringing it back to HQ, the doubles reveal that they know they're unstable... but that they can become real if they unmake the originals using the device.

5) Somehow (we'll figure it out when we get to this point), the T-Bolts break free and battle the doubles.

6) During the fight, the doubles break down and fall apart, dissolving to protoplasm. How the T-Bolts deal with seeing themselves die like that, well, time will tell.

Guardians of the Galaxy
"Welcome to War World!"

1) While searching for signs of Thanos, the Guardians respond to a distress call coming from a derelict ship. Investigating, they find no signs of any survivors, or anything else, for that matter.

2) This is revealed to be a trap and they are attacked by space pirates, with weaponry designed to suppress cosmic energy (not to mention really threaten the others with explosive decompression). The Guardians are captured.

3) They're taken to a massive, spherical battleship called War World, current home to all kinds of illegal activities, including Galactic Death Matches. Azura, Iason, and Dae are put in the arena, Alex with the sanitation workers, Red in the kitchens, and Eliza with the casino show girls. An energy field on the station dampens any cosmic energies just enough to make things interesting and keep the Eternals from just blasting their way out.

4) While Azura, Dae, and Iason fight, Alex engineers an escape, freeing Eliza and Red. Those three work to free the other prisoners and slaves.

5) After overwhelming victory in the arena, Azura, Dae, and Iason fight the master of War World, the Pirate King Galaxar, son of Nebula, powerful enough to hold his own against the weakened heroes.

6) Alex and the others arrive with the other prisoners/slaves, overpowering the pirates and guards, and smashing the power suppressor.

7) Galaxar teleports away. The Guardians call in the Nova Corps to seize War World.

Force Works
"Gamer"

1) Shortly after a new virtual reality video game, "Tech Warrior" hits the market, a rash of mysterious events pop up. a teen murders his classmates, shouting "Death to Gyroids!", a girl jumps from a tall building thinking she can fly, a boy tries to attack a city bus and ends up roadkill, etc. When one of these happens in Kansas City, Rhodey, out of a nagging sense of connectedness, tasks Force Works to investigate, even though it's outside their mandate.

2) When talking to the deceased teen's mom, she tells them he'd been playing this new video game a lot, shutting out most of the rest of his life. They confiscate it for evidence.

3) Finding nothing immediately wrong, one of the more tech minded of the teen starts playing the game and becoming addicted. Getting good at it very quickly, they start believing they're in the game when they're not, and go into a similar (and possibly suited-up) pattern of destructive behavior.

4) Fortunately, the other members stop them and snap them out of it.

5) Examining the VR game more closely, they discover its receiving a low-electromagnetic spectrum threshold signal, which they track to the game manufacturer's corporate HQ... which just so happens to be local.

6) Once there, robotic defenses keep them out, until superior firepower gets them inside. A bit of computer hacking reveals subbasemets not on the legal floor plan.

7) Underground, FW discovers that the company is a front for MAIM (Murderously Advanced Idea Mechanics), an AIM splinter-group led by MODAM.

8) The VR game has been, in fact, a field test of a new brainwashing/identity replacement technology. FW battles MAIN dreadnaughts and MODAM. MODAM escapes.
9) With this evidence, FW gets the corporation shut down and the VR system seized.

Operation Bugification

crossman.dylan@gmail.com — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:39:48 GMT

As seen by icon and the two pictures above, I'm taking Sydney in a rather different direction from being another suit-wearer. This will eliminate some redundancies in the T-Bolts line-up and abilities set, and open up quite a few possibilities plotwise and development-wise. Including my favorite, the long-term, unresolvable angst ala Ben Grimm.

But yes. At some point, I'd like for the T-Bolts to be fighting some sort of non-Brood space bug. Sydney gets bitten, and this begins to introduce the bug dna into her system, transforming her into an insect human hybrid as seen in the left hand picture above. Which has the good benefit of fixing her legs, but, of course, the bad side of turning her into a human-insect. Plenty of angst room there. Along with sometimes worrying insect like behavior, such as a sugar-fixation or a literal verbal *tic* like Bug from the Micronauts.

"Natural" Bug form:

Class 20 super-strength
Increased durability
Increased reflexes and speed.
Natured winged flight (and the possibility of destructive wing-vibrations)
Increased senses.
Communication with insects.
Firable "stinger" darts coated with a sedative bio-toxin.
Acid Spit
Ability to weave cocoon-like adhesive material.
Talons
Ability to cling to walls

and the ability to manifest a more armored carapace (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Zylly/960064-shikari_10.jpg)

App

crossman.dylan@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:49:23 GMT

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Dylan
Email: you’ve got it
AIM (if you have one): nextgener49
Character Name: Sydney Davis (Beetle)
Character LJ (if applicable): dont_bug_me
Physical description (face, build, weight): Syd is of about average height, slightly below average build, with green eyes and sandy blond hair
Age: 21
Birthday: October 23
PB: (If using one.)
Abilities: Though not of the level of her uncle, Sydney is a mechanical prodigy with a degree in electrical engineering. The Beetle armor mk. IV, designed by her uncle and further modified by her, grants limited protection, Spider-Man level super-strength, flight, sensors, and various weapons systems including electro-blasters and stinger darts. It is effectively like wearing a fighter plane in terms of speed and mobility.
Weaknesses and flaws: Sydney requires either the suit or her exoskeleton in order to walk. She’s impulsive and easily lead into danger.
Character location/Home: NYC, pending a move to wherever the T-Bolts will be.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Relatives (living/dead?): Abner Jenkins (uncle), Aine Gold (cousin)

Backstory: Abner Jenkins' niece, Sydney was born with twisted legs, unable to walk, even after multiple surgeries. Her uncle built her a robotic exoskeleton that allowed her some mobility, but that she could only use in private. Learning his secret and what he'd previously done with his robotics, she eventually convinced him to make her a suit of Beetle armor so she could actually get out and about, and lead an exciting life. She became super villainess for the thrills, and, truth be told, really took Hadelinde's offer so she could get rich and get into all sorts of excitement – but also to keep an eye on the group and try to keep anyone from getting hurt too badly. She would not have called herself a good guy, but she was also not out to kill or maim anyone, especially kids, and will do her best to save lives, especially of children.

However, she never actually had the opportunity for any villainy and never actually committed any crimes others than participating in the fights with the Avengers. And, more importantly, Hadelinde and the others quickly made her realize that it wasn’t something she wanted to be. An adrenaline junkie? Absolutely, but definitely not a criminal. Now, she has begun looking for other ways to get her thrills, including upgrading the Beetle armor yet again, this time forgoing any attempts at male disguise.

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: Technically already introduced, will be getting involved with Thunderbolts stuff
What are you planning to do with this character?: Play off the adrenaline junkie angle, look at someone on the road to redemption (even if they’ve not done anything that bad)
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Thunderbolts stuff, slowly start becoming a hero

Sample post:

Power levels good, wing motors operating at one hundred percent, air conditions good... Go!

The Beetle rocketed through the sky, a faint buzzing sound accompanying the speed. She darted this way and that, pushing the suit to its limits, ignoring the warning lights that came on as she did so. Sydney pushed the suit more, higher and higher and faster and...

<font face="comic sans ms">WARNING! SYSTEM FAILURE IMMINENT! ABORT!</font face>

The warning came to late, as the wing motors cut out, sending her plummeting toward the ground like a stone. She was all but certain she was about to go splat when the system reset, letting her pull out of the dive at the last moment.

"WAAAAHOOOOOOO!"