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| | ==No Single Foe - the AVENGERS 1888== | | ==No Single Foe - the AVENGERS 1888== |
| | ===issue #1=== | | ===issue #1=== |
| − | : ''M&M presents:'' <font color=darkred>'''''"Sound of Silence"'''''</font>''' <br> ''December 7, 2007''. <br> ''GM'': KEVIN | + | : ''M&M presents:'' <br><font color=darkred>''"Sound of Silence"''</font>''' <br> ''December 7, 2007''. <br> ''GM'': KEVIN |
| | :: '''ISSUE RECAP''': | | :: '''ISSUE RECAP''': |
| − | ::::* '''Opening Cut-Away Scene I''': A cranking and rotating handle twists along the outer side of a new-fangled contraption known to the mechanical savy as a "gramaphone"... As it cracks and crackles the wooden and metal box begins to speak!! [[Image:EdisonPhonograph.jpg|thumb|"I am Phonograph!"]] | + | ::::* '''Opening Cut-Away Scene I''': ??? |
| − | :::::: <font color=darkred>'''''I am phonograph''', created by the great wizard of the new world to delight those that would have melody or be amused. I can sing you tender songs of love. I can give you merry tales of joy and laughter. I can transport you to the realms of music. I can cause you to join in the rythmic dance. I can lull the babe to sleep in full or waken in the youth of heart soft memories of youthful days. No matter what you mood I am always there to entertain you. When your days work is done I can bring the theatre or the opera to your home. I can give you grand opera, comic opera, or vaudeville. I can give you sacred or popular music, dance, orchestra or instrumental music. I can render solos, duets, trios, quartets. I can aid in entertaining your guests. When your wife is worried after the cares of the day and the children are boisterous - I can rest to the one and quiet the other. I never get tired and you will never tire of me for I always have something new to offer. I give pleasure to all young and old. I will go wherever you want me, in the parlor, in the sleep room, on the porch, in the parlor or in your summer home. If you sing or talk to me I will regale your song or words and repeat them to you at your pleasure. I can enable you to always hear your loved ones even though they are far away... I talk in every language, I can help you to learn other languages. I am made with the highest degree of mechanical skill. My voice is the clearest, smoothest and most natural of any talking machine. The more you become acquainted with me the better you will like me.''</font> | + | ::: The Avengers ??? |
| − | ::::* '''Opening Cut-Away Scene II''': As the sly man plots his devious ways, the scene fades and shifts. We find ourselves back in London-town. A beautiful oaken and leathered den-like office. The bustle of street sounds echo up from several floors below at street-level, the smell of brandy and cigar permeate the room. The solid door of the office shutters with a knocking. Stepping out of a corner shadow in the room the sly man from Asgard walks, with each step his form shifts to an older gentleman. And on the outer door the massive fist of the knocking man crosses over the name-plate... '''''"J. Moriarty - Owner Daily Trumpet"'''''. <br> The mountain sized man, stands some six feet seven inches from the floor - his hand completely encompassing Moriarty's when they shake. Soon the scene shifts again as the men walk along the docks. A deed must be done to prepare '''Mr. Garthwaite''' (Dirk) and his roughians for their place in the plots to come... As Garthwaite introduces his men ('''Henry Camp''' and '''Brian Philip Calusky)''' to their secret benefactor, the older man scrounges a massive crowbar from the East Indian Docks - THIS would be their item to call on the power of '''LOKI'''...
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| − | ::::* '''Opening Cut-Away Scene III''': Cut-Scene to a crack of thunder as we look up in awe at the god standing on his mountain. The one-eyed leader of the Asgardians speaks down to his son. '''Thor, Odinson''' lacks humility. A lesson must be served. Kneeling before his father the Thunder God agrees to look over Midgard from this moment on.... In the distance looking across this scene with glee is another, a figure in the dark. Hidden in shadow. Toiling his hands over one another, the master of machiavellian manipulations imagines what this "punishment" will allow for him. Down with his blasted half-brother. Thor and those that walk with him will be humiliated before their utter destruction!!
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| − | ::: The scene is set within the Tower of London, Marshal America searches the castle for his teammate and friend Argonaut. The metal Avenger sits quietly calculating the next move on the board of Chess played by he and his longtime opponent '''Dr. Henry McCoy'''. Soon as Marshal America fills the mechanical hero in on a new mission, from above a sneak-thief drops in on the Avengers! <br> The '''Bush Ranger''', with his amazing skills of accuracy and percision litterally drops from the skylite of the Tower. Surprised and on alert the Avenger duo move to stop the threat - but with quick wit and quicker reflexes '''Mr. Clint Barton''' slows their attack and introduces himself. "The Fury" has asked for his aid in a matter of state... <br> The mission is to be a simple one, the Avengers are to escort one '''Mr. Ronald Pershing''' into the heart of darkness amid the African continent. On their way to the country of Wakanda, they would protect Lord Gyrich's friend and find their way to the African Mehir Standing Stone following the escort. <br> The Avengers' tread the waters down the coasts toward "'''Freetown'''" [[Image:Freetown.gif|thumb]]. Along their way both Marshal America and the Bush Ranger find that playing in the free-time sport of rugby with Pershing's three hirelings from the docks (Garthwaite, Camp and Calusky) is as treacherous as it is entertaining... Meanwhile, Pershing himself begins to feel sympathy for the poor soundless Avenger Argonaut. It is with a new material called "Vibranium" that Pershing will give a voice to the mute hero, he swears it! But on their arrival it is from this British Empirial port, in Freetown, that will be the guide point for their expedition into the interior of darkest Africa. After several days of planning and preparing the Avengers arrange a guide group delivered them by Freetown's '''Governor Amahl Farouk'''. Meanwhile, Argonaut spies the near-do-well of Colonel Pershing's trio making a purchase of their own... A massive African on par with the crew's size and strength - his African name is Mutumbo, but Dirk renames him with an English proper name after his mum's father and his own poppa. They call the iron-ball-chained man '''"Eliot Franklin"'''. <br> Days later as the team makes their way into the depths of the jungles, the team slowly learns that men seem to be going missing. And not long after sounds begin to eminate from the jungles. Sounds of the giant cats of the jungles, deadly beasts of hate the native fear! But it is with wit and guile that the Avengers soon learn that something is amiss. Colonel Pershing and his men seem to be leading the Avengers off at the exact times during which their guide men go missing. The camp narrows from 40 men to 30, then to 25 within days. But their is a new member as well, a beautiful native girl with the most crystal of eyes and pure white hair - she seems to be Pershing's... slave!! <br> And then the great cat attacks the camp. The Avengers spring into action, confused as the growling beast tromps around the camp seemingly invisible!! But it is Argonaut that sees through this deception. Pershing cranks his gramophone fooling the Avengers as he and his men deal out the camp slaves to the native tribes of the region for information on how to locate (and steal!!) the precious Vibranium!! But before the Avengers can foil Pershing's plans his crew returns to defend the master of sound... Swinging the massive iron bar at the Vibranium rock Argonaut had stripped from Pershing, Garthwaite - finds the power his benefactor noted. Thus is the dawn of the '''WRECKING CREW'''!!! <br> But this is not their day. This is the Avenger's duty. And soon thwarted Pershing himself, maddened by the destruction of his life's work (the gramophone) at the hands of Marshal America's Star Spangled Saber - the man formerly known as "Colonel Ulysses Klaue" during the war, jumps to his death into his masterwork contraption of sound and sonics. But he does not die!! He becomes something ... other!! And with a massive sound-wave blast all the heroes, villains and native alike fail unconcious. As the madman known as Pershing or Klaue proclaims... '''"I AM PHONOGRAPH"''' and disappears with a thunderous sonic-boom!
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| − | ::::* '''Epliogue''': The Avengers regroup and contain the newly empowered Wrecking Crew. Confiscating Garthwaite's iron bar, they make their way on into the Wakanda province. Meeting with T'Chaka the chief of the Panther Tribe of the African nation of Wakanda, the Avengers request a prison of Vibranium be built to house these Imperial prisoners until proper facilities can be built nearer London. Happy that their albino African princess has been delivered to them (Ororo) the Panthers agree, aiding the team to collect the Mehir Standing Stone and begin their journey home. Collecting Phonograph's "gramophon cylender claw" of Vibrainum as yet another trophy in the Avenger's case!
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| | ::: Tune in next time True Believers! | | ::: Tune in next time True Believers! |
| | : ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/BUSH_RANGER_1888 Bush Ranger] | | : ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/BUSH_RANGER_1888 Bush Ranger] |
| − | : ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'': Mr. Ronald Pershing (aka. Colonel Ulysses Klaue, aka. '''Phonograph'''), the Wrecking Crew ('''the Wrecker''' / Dirk Garthwaite, '''Bull-Smasher''' / Henry Camp, '''Pilecrusher''' / Brian Philip Calusky, '''Thunderball''' / Dr. Eliot Franklin). | + | : ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'': ??? |
| − | : ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'': Loki/Moriarty, Thor, Odin, Ororo, T'Chaka | + | : ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'': ??? |
| | : '''EXPERIENCE POINTS''' | | : '''EXPERIENCE POINTS''' |
| − | ::: 0 Power Points for this issue. | + | ::: ??? Power Points for this issue. |
| | ::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''': PL'''8'''; '''127'''pp | | ::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''': PL'''8'''; '''127'''pp |
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