The AVENGERS - 1889 Back Issue Bin

GM Commentarys

Take a gander here to see commentaries on each issue and references for Easter Eggs and story ideas from where they were "re-imagined". Note, while not spoilers specifically - these notes will give some "behind the scenes" ideas and details.

Age of Wonders - the AVENGERS 1888

issue #1

M&M presents:
INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part I: "the Avengers Cometh"
October 19, 2007.
GM: KEVIN

ISSUE RECAP:

Opening Cut-Away Scene: the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - Ripper Recap PART I - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.

Gathered together by the Queen - the Wasp, Marshall Rodgers, and the Argonaut read the letter from the Queen and their induction as the first of the new Avengers. Sir Nicholas Fury arranged them on the British Rail headed toward the Welsh country-side. It seems the Isle of Wight has a problem...

Along the train toward the Isle Gentlemen and Ladies watch as the Men of Renown get to know one another. And suddenly the train is rocked!

Decerning that the train is in danger of careening over the edge of a large cliff face as the train tressle is out, Fury bid the Avengers into action.

After much well planned work, there are little injuries and no casualties - save the train engine and the first three cars. The most odd of the events is the thwarting and driving away of strange "Moleoid" beasts... As the team assembles to rush on to the Isle of Wight, Fury bellows the immediate need on the coast.

Arriving at the ferry docks on England's side of the 3 mile channel, the heroes learn that the Empire Guardsmen have faced some beasts coming out of the massive hole that has destroyed the Osbourne House. As men and women that escaped the creatures on the Isle, having "coal burns" across their body's the heroes find an odd cocoon that men are trying to move. It seems inside of this volcanic was a guard, trapped and a little worse for ware - but not dead!

As the heroes questioned the guards and arrived on the Isle, they quickly learned these "Magma-Men" were spreading their radius of heated ground. While the massive chasm sits without activity.

Determining descression might be the better part of valor, the team retreats to search for answers, answers they believe will be had by Henry Pym...!

TEAM ROSTER: Marshal America, the Wasp, Argonaut

ISSUE APPEARANCES: Nicholas "the Fury" Dee, the Moleoids creatures, the Magma-Men (stone-apes)

ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED: Ripper, Queen Victoria, Pym

EXPERIENCE POINTS

2 Power Points for this story first issue.

3 Power Points (if each player completes your wiki page entry)

TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience: PL8; 125pp

See you next time True Believers!

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issue #2

M&M presents:
INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part II: "Small Challenges"
November 4, 2007.
GM: KEVIN

ISSUE RECAP:

Opening Cut-Away Scene: the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - Ripper Recap PART II - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.

Rushing back to London to find Pym in hopes of explanation or aid, the team learns that Pym had formerly been working in Paris with a mechanics group but now has been relocated to work with Starkweather.

Lady Van Dyne telegraphs Starkweather to arrange his aid in finding Pym. Even though it is late at night when they arrive, the Wasp's allure aids entrance to Starkweather's home.

The team learns that Pym is working on Starkweather's new textile factory machines and has a "laboratory" in Whitechapel. Starkweather gives the Avengers the apartment address and notes on the location his investigators have learned where Pym frequents a brothel and opium den.

When the Avengers arrive at Pym's apartment they find the entire floor has been seemingly condemned and boarded over. After some investigation the team learns that Pym has reduced everything (using his "Pym Perfumes") within the apartments to a mini-city so that he can have immense areas for his colonies of insects and his lab work.

After minor dealings with the Pym Perfumes and insects the team search to find Pym not there. Lady Van Dyne retires for the evening as Argonaut and the Marshal seek Pym at the opium den...

Pym had struck the ire of the den's owners and now was being beaten by tough ruffins, but Marshal America saves the scientist before breaking his nose himself for his bad behavour.

Pym wakes the next morning in the cells of the Tower of London. The team interogate him until they're satisfied that he's not directly responsible for the events on the Isle of Wight. But they learn much from the scientist about the natures and connections of the trenches and mythology and the faerie realms.

During these discussions, Commander Dee brings to the attention of the team the appearance of at least 8 total of these 200 meter holes in different parts of the world and across the Empire. Argonaut speculates that these holes are actually forming Antipodes on the opposite sides of the globe from one another!

Together Pym and Argonaut guess that the strange "Menhir" with the odd silver etched symbols in them, reportedly on the edges of these holes have some sort of powering mechanism or something...

To end this issue the group makes plans to assault the Magma-Men, hoping to capture the large rock at the center of the disturbance believing that it is a key to the invasions!

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TEAM ROSTER: Marshal America, the Wasp, Argonaut

ISSUE APPEARANCES: Henry "Hank" Pym

ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED: Ripper, Anthony Starkweather (and his iron armored bodyguard), Virginia "Pepper" Potts (executive secretary to Starkweather), Edwin Jarvis (butler to Starkweather)

EXPERIENCE POINTS

TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience: PL8; 125pp

See you next time True Believers!

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issue #3

M&M presents:
INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part III: "Burned"
November 16, 2007.
GM: KEVIN

ISSUE RECAP:

Opening Cut-Away Scene I: Leading in to foreshadow upcoming story arcs - Avengers 1888 Issue #4 Preview 1

Opening Cut-Away Scene II: the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - PART III - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.

The Avengers seal their plans to invade the Isle of Wight, hoping to rush in and steal the stone Mehir, believing that will diminish the effects on/of the Magma-Men.

As night wanes Argonaut toils away into sleepless hours working with his "father" Master Pym to create a Lava-Skiff to be used to approach the magma-laced land around the hole at the former Osbourne House site.

On the morn the team loads cargo onto the [insert name of SHIELD carrier here] and sailed down the Channel toward the Isle of Wight.

Arriving in the boiling seas two miles out from the Isle, Argonaut gave word (card) and the carrier's cargo-hold opened to the ocean, jettisoning them out to ride the heated waves.

Holding tight and ducking the siring waves the Avengers used the Lava-Skiff's armor to ride up the, now partially melted, white cliff-faces of the Isle.

Quickly approaching the Avengers could see the movement of the "Stone Apes" as they spread their magma menace.

Only quick thinking saves Marshal America when lava melts the steel bottom of the skiff, spashing heat into the passenger flat then suddenly...

The Magma-Men attack, flipping the Lava Skiff into the air! Marshal America climbs the flipping hulk landing on the bottom-side as it pitches and begins to sink as Argonaut splashes down and begins to sink in the volcanic lake!

Meanwhile the Wasp rushes toward the Mehir stone, blasting Magma-Men as she flies. Then explodes the base of the Mehir into gravel.

The Crown Chief of the Magma-Men watches, ordering his minions to attack as D and Wasp swarm the pit.

But it is Jinku, the Witch Doctor that proves to be the chief threat as pulses of heat radiate from the ground through the legs and hearts of the Magma-Men - she commands them to wrap the flying heroes in their porous molten rock snares! Marshal America yells out for his teammate as the Wasp's cocoon smashes to the ground, while D summons up his mystics to thwart the Earth from jailing him! As Jinku raises her trump card, the captured Professor Harver Rupert Elder of Eton, on a gust of heated air!

Seemingly pleading with his king to stop the invasion, Molto, watches as Jinku is brought from the sky - seemingly killed and falling into the pit... He runs and leaps into the black following his Jinku! As the Professor falls with them.

Elsewhere the land-locked Avengers survive the onslaught of the Magma-Men, as Argonaut "swims" his way back to the skiff just in time to see the magma landscape super-cool with the fall of Jinku the Witch Doctor!

Rushing the pit D swoops in to save the Professor. Now blinded and slightly mad from his subterranean "hollow earth" experience the Professor calls out for the sake of his peopl... STUDENTS who were still lost somewhere at the beautiful Valley of Diamonds.

Marshal America and Argonaut close quickly as the massive Mehir stone falls and hovers nearly a foot above the ground, hanging on what D sees and the world "ley lines" - interconnected across the land to the other Mehir stones and through the hole to its antipode! The good Marshal raises his Star-Spangled Saber to slice the malignant artifact in half - when suddenly D yells out "HOLD!".

With the eldritch heat of Jinku the Witch Doctor fading the Magma-Men cannot bare the surface world and begin to solidify into stone statues of their former selves. Only the Crown Chief King yet crawls back toward his home. With his crown breaking from his brow, it is an Avenger that aids him! Lady Van Dyne, respecting the nobility of the king, helps the hobbled scion into the darkness as the volcanic pit begins to close.

And looking back, Wasp sees she is the only one small enough to enter the collapsing hole to find and save Professor Elder's students as she, without a goodbye, zips into the black.... (to be continued in "The Wasp at the Earth's Core!")

The team has won the day and the world is save, from the evil hands of the Magma-Men, a threat no single man of renown could thwart! For more see: EPILOGUE to Avengers #3

TEAM ROSTER: Marshal America, the Wasp, Argonaut, D

ISSUE APPEARANCES: Crown Chief King of the Magma-Men, Molto, Jinku the Witch Doctor, Professor Harver Rupert Elder of the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor,

ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED: Spyder-Man, Mr. Scorp, Ripper, Sgt. Kasteel

EXPERIENCE POINTS

2 Power Points for this stories climax issue.

TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience: PL8; 127pp

See you next time True Believers!

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issue #4

M&M presents:
??? - Part III: "???"
November 30, 2007.
GM: KEVIN

PREVIEW: Avengers 1888 Issue #4 Preview 1. ... ??? ...

ISSUE RECAP:  ???

TEAM ROSTER: Marshal America, Argonaut, D, Spyder-Man, Thor

ISSUE APPEARANCES:  ??

ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED:  ??

EXPERIENCE POINTS

 ??? Power Points for this issue.

TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience: PL8; 127pp

See you next time True Believers!

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