Evil Mike as the GM: evil, cruel alien being from another planet.
Ben as Mr. Smith: able to duplicate himself with ease. (Lord help us!)
Lee as Mal “Hex†Hexington: can go insubstantial at will and packs a powerful punch when substantial.
Shaun as Viridian: greatest Atlantean scientist ever! (Just ask him.)
Steve as Strike: produces and controls lightening at will.
Mike as Silverback: a silverback ape with all the powers of an ape with a blaster.
We started a new monthly Savage World game last weekend. Evil Mike is running us through the Necessary Evil (NE) plot point campaign. If you’re unfamiliar with NE, imagine a world with supers where all of the heroes have been destroyed by aliens and the aliens now control Earth. It’s now up to the super villains to save the planet…and that’s where we come in. We are all super villains; loosely banded together to save the planet from the aliens so we can go back to our own brands of villainy and perhaps take over the planet for ourselves.
Our first session was a blast, with one super not surviving. I know what you’re thinking—it was me. You’d be wrong…this time.
Our story begins inside a V’Sori prison barge. We are all prisoners with nullifiers around our wrists. These nullifiers nullify our super powers. Things look grim until an explosion outside the ship causes it to crash. Our savior is none other than Dr. Destruction, leader of the Omega resistance movement. “If you want to live, follow me.†We followed him and are soon flying in his ship away from the V’Sori. We are still locked in the nullifiers though. Then Dr. Destruction reveals why he saved us. “I’d like you to join me as one of my Omega Cells.†With that, we are ejected from his plane and plummet to earth—still wearing our nullifiers. In our minds we hear, “Do you agree to follow me?†We agree. The nullifiers explode off our wrists and we’re able to survive landing on the roof of a building complex.
In our minds Dr. Destruction tells us that we have fallen onto a V’Sori prison. We are to break out a villain named MindJack. If we succeed we will become his newest Omega Cell. Failure will not be tolerated.
Alarms are going off all around us. Strike decides it’s best to get off the roof and attempts to blast open a hole in the roof with his lightening powers. Strike failed to notice that the roof was metal. The lightening blast stuns everyone and fails to break through the roof. (Strike is not the brightest of Villains.)
Viridian uses his mechanical genius to shut down many of the electrical systems at the prison. Hex uses his insubstantial ability to go insubstantial to locate the cell where MineJack is being kept. Mr. Smith and Strike take on the drones protecting the prison. Mr. Smith takes a few wounds as Strike continued to add to his own drone body count. Silverback spent most of the time just trying to get into the prison. Once there he was soon shot to “death†by the drones.
At this point we needed to take a vote. Mike (i.e. Silverback) did not like the fact that supers could only die under certain extraordinary circumstance in NE. He thought this reduced the “risk†the supers where actually taking in the game. He wanted to use the incapacitation rules from the core Savage Worlds rules. We put this to a vote and decided to use the core rules as Mike suggested. Mike failed his rolls and Silverback died.
We released ALL of the prisoners, including MindJack. Dr. Destruction picked us up along with a many other supers and whisked us to a warehouse in Southpoint. This was to be our HQ. It was then that Viridian mentioned that he already had a lair that, if we agreed to help fund it, could serve as our HQ. We all agreed (with fingers crossed.)
What dirty deeds will Dr. Destruction put us up to next time? What new super villain will take the place of Silverback the dead dirty ape? These and other questions will be answered next time.
Steve “The Chronicler†Todd