Evil DM Mark3
2008-05-11, 06:02 PM
OK I am going to be running a M&M game soon but the medium is not important, because this is concept stuff. In my universe a chemical known as Rienzine, first isolated by Mr Edward Hyde but named after a german scientist, can be used to create super-powered individuals. For a long time the process was very VERY hit and miss but the invention of high quality chromatography alowed the separation of the myriad almost identical chemicals that went together to make the mixture referred to as Riezine. Even to this day the use of these chemicals is dangerous, and coincidently illegal.
The process was getting off the ground properly during the second world war but it was during the cold war that things really got going. Super Soldiers where the order of the day, leaving only two nations in the world to develop the, theoretically inferior, nuclear weapon to any degree. The truth is any nation that was around in the 50-60s that had any sort of millitary mentality at all and had a few decent scientists could create their own super soldier, with a bit of hit and miss of course. Oddly the most common side effect (about 21% of the time, more if aimed for) is extreme long life or immortality, thus enabling my plot:smallsmile:.
The game revolves around the idea that they are now back, unified under the command of legendary (and immortal) villain General Tempus and officially PISSED.
But I can't get the ideas.
So far I have the following:
America: US Jack. There where in fact many US Jacks, the process was unstable and was offered to terminally ill soldiers, along with a large sum of cash to their dependants, the public was never aware of this. They tended to last 4 months. Then one stayed alive permanently, but the procedure had caused him constant pain. Got angry. Standard all over better-than-you man.
Britain: Officially just developed the bomb. May have had a hush hush project too, haven't decided, ideas welcome.
Germany: Had a WWII project, not decided who it produced.
China: Definitely had/has a project.
Japan: Kamikaze (divine wind). Female speedster who re-invented the ancient samurai code for a modern era. She and her neo-samurai abandoned "weak" Japan in the closing days of the war and now works as a mercenaries. Swore feudal loyalty to "Tempus-Dono" when she learnt what aliases he had used in ancient Japan. He has her respect and thus her obedience, the exact reason Japan DIDN'T.
USSR: Blessed with several skilled roboticists The USSR was able to create first The Commissar (cyborg with twin chain guns) then The Warriors (mook level cyborgs) and then finaly General Winter (Cross between a warhammer 40k terminator and The Terminator). Vanished when the USSR fell apart.
So, um.
Ideas?
The process was getting off the ground properly during the second world war but it was during the cold war that things really got going. Super Soldiers where the order of the day, leaving only two nations in the world to develop the, theoretically inferior, nuclear weapon to any degree. The truth is any nation that was around in the 50-60s that had any sort of millitary mentality at all and had a few decent scientists could create their own super soldier, with a bit of hit and miss of course. Oddly the most common side effect (about 21% of the time, more if aimed for) is extreme long life or immortality, thus enabling my plot:smallsmile:.
The game revolves around the idea that they are now back, unified under the command of legendary (and immortal) villain General Tempus and officially PISSED.
But I can't get the ideas.
So far I have the following:
America: US Jack. There where in fact many US Jacks, the process was unstable and was offered to terminally ill soldiers, along with a large sum of cash to their dependants, the public was never aware of this. They tended to last 4 months. Then one stayed alive permanently, but the procedure had caused him constant pain. Got angry. Standard all over better-than-you man.
Britain: Officially just developed the bomb. May have had a hush hush project too, haven't decided, ideas welcome.
Germany: Had a WWII project, not decided who it produced.
China: Definitely had/has a project.
Japan: Kamikaze (divine wind). Female speedster who re-invented the ancient samurai code for a modern era. She and her neo-samurai abandoned "weak" Japan in the closing days of the war and now works as a mercenaries. Swore feudal loyalty to "Tempus-Dono" when she learnt what aliases he had used in ancient Japan. He has her respect and thus her obedience, the exact reason Japan DIDN'T.
USSR: Blessed with several skilled roboticists The USSR was able to create first The Commissar (cyborg with twin chain guns) then The Warriors (mook level cyborgs) and then finaly General Winter (Cross between a warhammer 40k terminator and The Terminator). Vanished when the USSR fell apart.
So, um.
Ideas?