Outpost:NPCs

2009-08-05T02:26:30Z

DannyK:

2007-02-05T22:42:49Z

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=Black And Tans: Main Page=

[[Category: Primetime Adventures]][[Category: PBP]]

'''Black And Tans''' is a play-by-post game using the [http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html Primetime Adventures] system.

''We need to hire us some criminals to protect us from the police.'' 
unnamed New Orleans senior citizen

The main cast:

'''Mr. White''', philosophical thug

'''"Gravy" Gravier''', aging sleazy cop

'''Detective Darryl Baker''', honest cop with a bad rep

'''Rafale Castillo''', violent cop from a violent family

'''Anton Valliant''', hero cop with a dirty secret

The supporting cast:

TBA

The tabletop is [[Black_And_Tans:Tabletop|here]].

The notepad is [[Black_and_Tans:Notepad|here]].

===Season One: Series Arc===

{| border="1" class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Hero !! Current Fanmail !! Pilot Episode !! Episode 1 !! Episode 2 !! Episode 3 !! Episode 4 !! Episode 5 !!
|-
! Darryl Baker
| || 2 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
! Anton Valiant
| || 2 || 2 || 1 || 3 || 1 || 2
|-
! Leo Gravier
| || 2 || 1 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 2
|-
! Rafale Castillo
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 1
|-
! Leonard White
| 1 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 3 || 1
|}

'''Producer's Budget''': 15
'''Available Fanmail:''' 6

Black And Tans

2007-02-05T22:33:48Z

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Black And Tans

2007-02-05T22:28:33Z

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2005-12-09T15:25:00Z

DannyK:

SPARCS:Kibbitzing001

2005-11-29T21:58:29Z

DannyK:

Final word for this scene: '''BlackSheep'''

So here we are in the warehouse in back of the mall, and there's ... y'know ... crates and stuff. Somebody better replace this text with something worth reading.

And then Jessica says something, and Frost gets all freaky-violent, and there's this big SHARD robot. What the heck happens with that?

We've got to have Frost held off from attaching Jessica, right? And then that could be what Jessica is really fleeing from, more than the robot, who's probably programmed more to kick butt than to worry about the hostage.[[User:Azrianni|Azrianni]] 13:11, 29 November 2005 (PST)

''Actually, I think it'd work to cut straight to Livewire being blasted through a shop window, out onto the concourse. Jessica 'flees' while Mystic Girl pulls the team back together.''

And then, do we want to have the fight spill over into the main concourse? Do we want innocent lives on the line?

''Definitely. It's more fuel for Milka's rant.''

Here's a moment I know '''I''' want to see ....

A young man is fiddling with one of the video cameras on sale at the Mega-Buy electronics emporium. A skate board leans against the young man's leg. He is dressed in battered punk attire, and has several chains around one wrist. The store manager eyes him unhappily. We see the kid flipping through digital filters, making his hand look pixelated, then sepia toned, then mirrored.

Jessica runs, but not '''too''' fast, not fast enough to risk actually escaping. The robot tromps after her. She looks around desperately, and her eyes latch onto the camera in the boy's hands. She collapses, screaming in terror as the robot treads toward her.

The boy swings the camera around. We see Jessica through the camera's view ("Recording ... Recording ....") The view swings jerkily, and we see SHARD bearing down on her. The camera swings back to Jessica, as the robot's shadow covers her.

JESSICA: Oh no! Is there anyone who can possibly save me now?

''I was thinking something very similar.''

And then one of us has to, y'know, actually save her. Because, yeah, she's a manipulative bitch but she's also a bystander. The worst part is that her plan to manipulate us is clearly going to '''work'''. There was never really any doubt.

And then SHARD gets beaten down (or perhaps just escapes). But anyway, crisis averted.

''I was thinking:

''Livewire puts him down but not out in a way that leaves him in the wreckage of the electronics store. He moves in to finish him off; Vigil grabs his arm and stops him. Shard blows the place apart, bringing debris down and escaping into the sewers through the floor or something. Livewire thinks that Vigil was trying to protect him from the explosion, not protect Shard from him. Everyone gets out okay; Vigil's status in the team isn't compromised.''

: Plus '''guilt'''! I like it. Take my Fan Mail for the scene! Livewire has to thank her for it, though ... because every time he refers to it, ever, in future it's another twist of the knife. [[User:TonyLB|TonyLB]] 12:02, 29 November 2005 (PST)

Then we definitely need the scene where Frost goes off on Jessica. Do we want that in front of the camera?

''I think we do. The homecoming queen getting chewed out on camera by a superhero? It's the best of both worlds - Milka gets to publicly humiliate her '''and''' gets in trouble for it later. It should probably be Amy who calms her down. And then, while smiling sweetly for the cameras, very calmly threatens to break Jessica's jaw if she messes with the SPARCs again.

: Yeah, I think we should definitely have the machine go into the main mall. Even if the people in charge of this op don't want publicity, the bot's a villain at heart. And Milka going off on it would be a worthwhile thing to have happen. Now I have to figure out the next scene... -- [[User:James Holloway|James Holloway]] 10:13, 29 November 2005 (PST)

''Question: What have we established about Shard physically? How are people picturing him? I keep flicking between a spider and a hovering disc. Possibly a disc with various fold-out appendages and weapons?''

: I think of SHARD as looking quite humanoid, although larger, with a distinct head and a not-quite face. Definitely eyes. -- [[User:James Holloway|James Holloway]] 10:13, 29 November 2005 (PST)
::Huh. Not what I was thinking at all. Could work, though. Anyway, let's see if I can do the user-marking thing.[[User:BlackSheep|BlackSheep]]

Okay, here's a draft. Pretty long, but there was a lot going on. Kibbitz away.[[User:BlackSheep|BlackSheep]] 13:19, 29 November 2005 (PST)

Cut to the central avenue of the mall. The crowd, mostly teens at this time of day, are walking in groups across the polished floors, window-shopping, or sitting on benches chatting.

Then a shopfront window explodes outwards, Livewire borne backwards through the glass on the wrong end of a high-pressure jet of water. Shoppers scream and scatter as Shard advances onto the concourse towards him, the rest of the SPARCs making their way out through the debris.

MYSTIC GIRL: Vigil, Frost, you're on crowd control. We need the civilans out of the way of that thing before we can start taking it down. I'm going to get Livewire back on his feet.

Someone screams theatrically from off-screen.

MYSTIC GIRL: Oh, no...

Robot-eye-view as Shard looks from the fallen Livewire, past the remaining super teens and random passers-by, to where Jessica stands, vulnerable and alone. As its camera zooms in on her, she turns and begins to run down the avenue - not fast enough to escape, but fast enough to be chased.

Disregarding the SPARCs, Shard moves after her. Mystic Girl helps Livewire up.

MYSTIC GIRL: You okay?

LIVEWIRE: I'll be a lot better once I've taken a tin-opener to that thing. Which way did it go?

MYSTIC GIRL: Don't be an idiot. It's taken everything we've thrown at it without slowing down, and now it's not just our necks on the line. This is out of our league. I'm calling in SPARTA.

He shakes her off angrily.

LIVEWIRE: No! We can handle this without them.

MYSTIC GIRL: This is no time for an ego trip. You're going to get yourself killed. Or someone else.

LIVEWIRE: Look, if you want to run for help then go ahead. Right now, we're the ones on the scene and this is our responsibility. Maybe we can stop it. Maybe we can't. I'm going to try. Have a little faith in me.

Mystic Girl closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.

LIVEWIRE: And in yourself.

Cut to the display area of an electronics store. A youth in pseudo-punk gear is fiddling with a handheld video camera. A sales assistant is hovering nearby distrustfully.

Jessica rounds the corner, glances sideways, spots the camera and collapses into the B-movie damsel-in-distress pose, shrieking in terror as Shard's shadow looms over her.

JESSICA: Help! Won't somebody please save me?

A blast of electricity hits the robot in the side. Jessica suddenly looks furious.

JESSICA: ''You'' again?

LIVEWIRE: Sorry, princess, we're fresh out of white knights. Looks like you're stuck with us.

Livewire continues to fling lightning at the robot. It crackles away uselessly, but draws its attention. As Shard turns towards Livewire again, a whirring sawblade sliding into view, Mystic Girl hauls a complaining homecoming queen out of the way.

LIVEWIRE: What's the matter, buckethead? You want me to stop? Come over here and make me.

Moving with surprising speed, Shard rushes him. Livewire leaps aside, barely making it out of the way of the blade and bouncing painfully off the machine's armoured carapace. But as he gets shakily back to his feet, he's grinning triumphantly. He holds up something metallic and dripping.

LIVEWIRE: Boy, I hope this isn't anything important.

There's an internal explosion that sends Shard flying into a wall of television sets. The robot sinks to the floor among the wrecked hardware, camera-lenses darting around as it tries to focus. There's another red-tinted shot of Livewire. Behind him, Frost and Vigil touch down.

FROST: Is it down?

LIVEWIRE: But not out. I'm going to finish it off.

Vigil catches his arm. Reflexively, he pulls away; she doesn't even budge.

VIGIL: Stay away from him.

LIVEWIRE: What are you-

He's drowned out by a series of explosions. The roof of the store comes down, and Shard vanishes behind a cloud of dust and debris. Then everything goes quiet again. Mystic Girl carefully walks over to the rubble.

MYSTIC GIRL: I think it went through the floor. Maybe the wall. Either way, we'll never catch it now.

Vigil lets go of Livewire's arm. He looks at a lump of concrete as big as his head, and then back to her.

LIVEWIRE: How did you know it was going to....never mind. I owe you one.

VIGIL: I just...didn't want to see anyone get hurt.

LIVEWIRE: Well, you sure saved my hide. Thank you.

There's a ''crack'' from off-screen, and a cry of pain. The three of them spin around to see Jessica on her knees, one hand to the side of her face. Frost stands over her, eyes blazing.

FROST: You. Selfish. Bitch.

JESSICA: I-

FROST: Shut up! This is all your fault! People could have been killed! All because you wanted to be the centre of attention. Because you wanted to be ''special''.

MYSTIC GIRL: Frost-

FROST: And because you don't give a damn about anyone but yourself. You think that everyone else is just there to make your life better? You think you can get whatever you want, just because you're pretty and popular and rich? I should give you the beating you've had coming since birth, you spoiled little brat!

MYSTIC GIRL: Frost!

Frost turns away, almost snarling. Mystic Girl returns her gaze levelly.

MYSTIC GIRL: That's ''enough''. Nobody got hurt. Back away before you do something you'll regret.

A tear-streaked Jessica looks up from the floor and spots the kid with the camera, still recording the whole thing.

FROST: I'm done here.

Seen through the camcorder, Jessica buries her face in her hands.

Commercial break.

[[User:Miss Fermoy|Miss Fermoy]] 13:35, 29 November 2005 (PST) I like the detail about Jessica seeing the camera, so even though she is crest fallen, she still tries to make a play for her audiences sympathy. Might be an idea to add at the point where she calls her a spoilt little brat something like she raises her hand to strike her...then it makes the threat even more imposing, and the fact she stops at Mystic girls command surprising.

: She could activate her power ... ice forming on her hands, even on her skin. -- [[User:James Holloway|James Holloway]] 13:38, 29 November 2005 (PST)

: How about just showing the icy handprint on Jessica's cheek? Understated but effective. And Frost can also has a fistful of ice, to show that she can dish out a whole lot more than that if she wants. [[User:DannyK|DannyK]] 13:58, 29 November 2005 (PST)

By the way, I'm picturing Shard as pretty much humanoid, but big and bulky with lots of compartments for secret weapons to pop out of. Hey, he's got to be able to ''dance'', right? When Sarah can't take him to the Prom and they have their own secret villain party? Also, I think Shard should say something, maybe FAREWELL or BE SEEING YOU in a gravelly robot voice, so it's not clear if he's saying goodbye to Sarah or taunting the team. [[User:DannyK|DannyK]] 13:58, 29 November 2005 (PST)

Nevermore:Espejo

2005-11-11T00:52:38Z

DannyK:

Espejo, Viscount of Reflections

=Stats:=
Aspect: 3 (Inhuman) [5 AMP]
Domain: 2 (Viscount) [7 DMP]
Realm: 3 (Warden) [5 RMP]
Spirit: 0 (Candleflame) [5 SMP]

=Gifts:=
Glorious
Espejo, born as he was from the reflection of an angel, possesses the Glorious Gift of Aspect. Those who gaze upon Espejo see within him the most beautiful aspects of themselves, their highest ideals and hopes made manifest. To look upon his face is to know what you have the potential to be or what you once were. This has a dramatic effect on mortals, one that can move a stoic, cut-throat CEO to tears or cause a hardened criminal to change their life for the better.

=Handicaps:=
Manifestation
Those who cannot see their reflections are immune to Domain miracles cast by Espejo. Whether this stems from the fact that they are blind, or in an area of darkness, matters little. In order for Espejo to use his Estate against others, he first needs to know that they can see what he is able to reflect.

Double
Another creature was born when the angel saw his reflection in the water. Unlike Espejo, however, he embodies the negative aspect of the Estate. Self-hate, mockery, and narcissism are the metaphorical associations that he governs. He is a subtle creature, though, and whom he serves remains a mystery.

=Design:=
A twining circle made from the branches of a cherry tree, the cherry blossoms themselves seem almost petalles as if they are not in full bloom. The dark green leaves of the branch are whorled. At the center of this circle of cherry blossoms is an Amaryllis, the flower of physical beauty, in full bloom. The petals of the Amaryllis are a beautiful black gilt at its center with white.

=Affliation:=
The Code of the Angels.
1: Beauty is the Highest Principle
2: Justice is Beauty
3: Lesser Beings Should Respect Their Betters

=Bonds:=
(Still thinking!)

=Description:=
No one sees Espejo the same way, as his Glorious Aspect tends to make people see within him traits that they wish they possessed. However, on the most mundane of levels, Espejo appears to be a young man possessed of smooth features and dark curly hair. In a way, he appears akin to a painting of a Boticelli angel.

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Nevermore:Erin Doucet

2005-11-11T00:50:43Z

DannyK:

Erin Doucet, Baronet of Wind

=Appearance:=
A skinny, athletic-looking woman with a skin tone dark enough to suggest either some minor non-caucasian ancestry or a lifetime in the sun. Her short, curly dark-brown hair is usually pulled back away from her face. She could potentially be pretty, but usually looks severe. Her best feature is her penetrating brown eyes. She smiles rarely.

=Disposition:=
Erin is modern in orientation, uncomfortable with her new role as the Domina of Wind, and self-reliant to an extreme. She is charmed by unfeigned altruism, and, while not a terrible person herself, surprisingly comfortable around the dregs of humanity.

=Design:=
Six blue flower petals, free and separated from each other, blown as if in the wind.

=Attributes=
Aspect 2 (Legendary) (5 AMP)
Domain 1 (Baronet) (5 DMP)
Realm 1 (Radiant) (5 RMP)
Spirit 2 (Incandescent Flame) (5 SMP)

=Gifts=
Elemental
Omniscience of Air
(Greater Divination of Wind/Simple/Almost Anywhere/A wide variety of situations/Uncommon = 5 points)
Erin can, with a thought, divine a startling amount of information from minor changes in air currents. If a mouse is on the move fifty miles away, the slight air currents it makes are Erin's to read. If someone is speaking at a whisper, the words will still reach the mistress of Wind. Weather is hers to divine for the next day or two at least. The limitations of this ability are mostly those imposed by Erin's still fairly prosaic worldview -- she can not divine any information that could not reasonably be carried by the air (such as color or texture), and anything that happens without an unbroken air connection, such as from inside a relatively airtight building, is invisible to her. The information from further sources may also be slightly out-of-date by the time the wind carries it to Erin -- but her range is extremely long -- she has divined the location of a person 1,000 miles away.

=Bonds=

Her family (including Jake's wife/Erin's sister, her father, and her mother): 4
The sanctity of her estate: 2
The conception of her estate: 5
Her sailboat, the Wake's Waft: 4

(The sanctity of her estate is the sense of "people besides natural forces, Erin, or Erin's Imperator don't get to mess with Winds." The conception her Estate is, "winds purify and cleanse, blowing away corruption -- sometimes at great cost." So it doesn't really bother Erin a whole lot if someone else horns in on Winds if they do so in accordance with her thematic sense of what wind does. If she's brought face to face with the fact that winds aren't always as purifying as she thinks, it bothers her a lot. If someone else is messing with them in order to mess with her conception, it bothers her a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT.)

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2005-11-11T00:15:18Z

DannyK:

[[Category: Nobilis]]
'Nevermore Nobilis Campaign Home''

This is the Wiki home of the RPGnet PbP game [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=227407 Nevermore].

The Hollyhock Gods of this game are DannyK and Aincumis.

The players:

Epoch plays [[Nevermore:Erin|Erin]], a self-reliant sailor who is now the Power of Winds.

Sigmars Nightmare plays [[Nevermore:Jack_Hopkins|Jack Hopkins]], businessman and Power of Shadows.

Sovem plays [[Nevermore:Jake|Jake]], family man and the Power of the Ties-that-Bind.

Firefly Night plays [[Nevermore:Espejo|Espejo]], a spirit born of an angel's reflection, now Power of Mirrors.

The Chancel and the Imperator have yet to be determined.