Chronic_GreenHorn wrote:Can any one remember thier best game of heros unlimited or you knowany of the super hero variety id like to hear some of y'alls stories thanks
I am surprised nobody has commented on this yet, people LOVE telling character stories.
I'll write up a few here in a bit maybe.
"The Guides to the Megaverse(tm)" Podcast at https://guidesmegaverse.podbean.com/ Author of "Setting the Stage" - Rifter 79, "Hitting the Streets" - Rifter 81, "Hitting the Gym" - Rifter 82 "Saving the World", and "On the Hunt" - Rifter 83 and lastly, my baby, my long term project... The Dark City of Cascade - Rifter 84.
My Crimson Fist story he was a Physical Training Character with a Doctorate level education. He was a blast to play (except when he had to be carried from place to place, being the only fool unable to fly)
The Following is my favorite story with him.
Crimson Fist was fighting one of these super powered characters (seemed like Bio Armor & SuperHuman Strength, likely other powers) who was really taking it to him, Crimson fist looked like he was down and out and finished. I can't seem to roll over this fools AR and I cant seem to parry any of this guys attacks. I've taken HIT POINT damage by this point. He's got me down on the ground. He makes an attack roll, NATURAL 20. Well Crap I'm boned, unconscious (probably not dead thanks to force of will). What the hell might as well make my own parry roll NATURAL 20. Crimson Fist catches the bad guys Fist inches away from his face. My turn attack roll NATURAL 20, Crimson fist pops up off the ground with a head bunt right into the bad guys face. First time I've broken his AR, he spits out a tooth. Bad guy goes for a left hook, since i'm still holding on to his right hand. I parry successfully for once. Since I've still got a hold of his right arm I go with a body flip throw, I break his AR, Slamming bad dude right into the hood of a (unoccupied) car. Character on the verge of death, a few good rolls later back in the fight. Defining moment for the Crimson Fist NEVER GIVE UP.
On the roleplaying side of things he was starting to develop an alcohol problem. Being the only "normal" human and routinely taking beatings he had something of an inferiority complex that he was trying to hide.
Oh man. My friends and I played the heck out of Heroes Unlimited in my college days. (I feel so old now) One of my favourite games involved a Captain America kind of character named Justice, a child in a demon's body (super strong and tough) named Tantrum (Justice was his foster father), a spawn ripoff, a special agent named Justin Case (yeah, I know) and I think there was another character, but he wasn't memorable.
During the final battle with an army of demons lead by a little boy (the cult that tried to raise a demon screwed up and the little boy's soul they were sacrificing ended up in the demon's body and the demon's soul ended up in the little boy's body). The fight was not going well as the demon got his body back and started kicking some major ass. The special agent ran away early as he felt way out of his league. The final hero falls just as a rumbling sound is heard. Special Agent Justin Case shows back up...in a tank!
Then in a fluke of luck I have never seen before or since, rolls three natural twenties for his next three attacks. There were rolls in between where he didnt roll 20, but for his next three attacks, every time he rolled he got a 20. It was insane.
He takes down the demon lord, the other demons take his body back to hell and mankind was saved by a normal human...in a tank.
That's what I love about HU. Its supers, but not so high powered that guns and tanks (lol) are useless.
It was in rifts but there was a woman with magnetism and glow bug powers who was a thief occ, a spy occ with blur, supervision thermal, and criminal intuition, a vagabond with sonic flight, supernatural strength, and afs plant (his character also had the insanity of power by association magical object and believed his powers came from a worn formerly deep purple fedora he owned), a female pre rifts history teacher with time travel powers (the gm and her sat down and modified time magic into a power for her) and a rogue scientist with giant and immovability.
Anyway it was great, the spy started out a separate, villain, selling secrets to the highest bidder. The magnetism thief was working for/with the spy in the beginning to find the scientist and steal his notes (he turned himself into a giant through experimentation), the vagabond was in prison for walking off with a towns sheriffs vehicle, and the giant rogue scientist was nursing the time traveler back to health after she suddenly appeared 15 feet above the ground and fell.
At the end we saved the recently time warped town of st. francisville, la from the invading horde. At the insistance of the time traveler we named ourselves the st. francisville sentinels (like the football team from the replacements...)
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For us in Century Station, the Creator was assaulting the city. He had upgraded his serum to work on ingestion instead of injection, which meant that he could affect larger quantities of people. He had taken over a water treatment plant, and was in the process of flooding the district with the Halcyon drug. We hadn't much time before it started up.
One of my two characters (in the background) went to the media and gave a warning about the water in the area, and to calm the city down from the rioting. I couldn't have both chars on the scene, but it did help in the long run.
Anyway, we try to stop the pipes from sending the chemical into the water flow. Our strongman, Atlas, decided he could delay it, and I got the vibe off of him that he was going to die. We couldn't shut off the pumps from above, the controls were smashed.
And then I remembered, I had 'mend the broken'. I told him to wait for four minutes if he could, then flew back upstairs, slapped almost all the PPE I had into that spell, fixed the monitoring equipment, and shut down the pumps. The situation was still volatile, but it wasn't going to get any worse.
Then came the boss fight with the Creator himself and his posse. I'm not going to lie, I sorta cheated in action. He just finished his monologue, I was invisible behind him, I cast Perun's Fire Scourge (perfect for fighting the supernatural, which the Creator is.) and set his ass on fire. Sure, he survived it, but it was enough to keep him occupied for reinforcements to show.
One of my best moments, but there are plenty more.
"The Guides to the Megaverse(tm)" Podcast at https://guidesmegaverse.podbean.com/ Author of "Setting the Stage" - Rifter 79, "Hitting the Streets" - Rifter 81, "Hitting the Gym" - Rifter 82 "Saving the World", and "On the Hunt" - Rifter 83 and lastly, my baby, my long term project... The Dark City of Cascade - Rifter 84.
