Dr Archeville

Unarchived at player request.

Unarchived at player request.

A ginormous change to Freedom City Play-by-Post is coming soon (as in, 12 hours from now at most, possibly much sooner), and will be announced in full once the Refs finish hashing out a few details. The change will affect almost two dozen characters, and will go into effect immediately once the full announcement is made.

No, I meant you couldn't use a VP to get "Power Feat: Alternate Power" to gain new APs off an existing Array.

No, it wouldn't.

Oh, I do want to RP with Atlas. Just kinda swamped with things lately (like reporting what errors I can to EF as he gets the upgrades through, and my wife's impending surgery) and unable to do much IC stuff.

Meh. Though this one has more thought-out reasons than simply "look, the maps kinda match!" :P

Reminder:

"Oh, man, what the heck did that kid hit me wit- BIG MAN! BIG RED MAN! COMING FOR ME!"

No, you cannot Power Attack, because you're not making an attack roll.

Is now top of round 6. No one used Hero/Villain Points last round, so totals remain the same. Knievel, go! * Doc's unconscious for at least eight more rounds, unless I spend an HP to give him an instant recovery check.

Shoot, I'd wanted to do something before Ghost just handed over the coin. All the board issues have scrambled my timing on things.

A witch and a vampire walk into a bar, and meet a zombie?

For some reason I thought I'd had his Attack/Damage with no trade-offs. That's been fixed. Damage is being upped by 1 rank via Sneak Attack. That's probably all the Sneak Attack I'll take for him. Took the Interpose feat, as that does play perfectly to his toughness. Power Attack (and Accurate Attack) and Takedown will have to wait. Also have to wait on Skills. Saves are gonna have to wait. Fixed Precognition & Postcognition pricing. Added Fearsome Presence 5 by making it an AP of Healing, and placing both into a "Necromantic Powers" array. An Array I'd always planned to take, and increase, and expand (as seen in his Hypothetical PL 14 build). Added Immunity to Criticals, and removed Weak Spot drawback. Tweaked his Regeneration some. I plan on upping this some, too.

You can use Power Attack when attacking Minions, even if Taking 10 to hit 'em.

The only one I'm really iffy on is the Super-Senses, as most of the things in the 'slot' are things a (half-)demon should have active at all times. (And I did call Bel's "Demonic Powers," not "Hellfire Control")

That's always how I've run it. Correct-a-mundo. Concealment or Obscure for the mental or radio sense.

Archeville smirked, "I wondered when you would ask something to that effect. Of course, it will be a while still before it becomes my company. Lots of paperwork and transfers and so on to get through. All that red tape stuff, you know." "But as for what I would be doing... well, pretty much exactly what I have been saying. There is a lot out there Darts can do, and with proper guidance, it can be so much more than it is now. The Miscellaneous Department was a true stroke of outside-the-box genius, and by nurturing it, the company could become a research & development lab to rival ASTRO Labs. Though some initial resources would need to go to PR, to... well... mitigate the negative image your association has brought to it, and bring back some of the financiers who withdrew. Maybe some humanitarian efforts, or an initial focus on medical technologies.... As I said, there's lots left to still work out."

Is now top of round 5.

Exile's here? Hunh, didn't expect that... though, in hindsight, it does make perfect sense. At the Headmistresses word, the man took a seat next to Malice. "I am here primarily to interact with the students," the man said, his voice more sure but his appearance still as milquetoast, "passing on what skills I can to the next generation. I have two reasons for this. One, to make sure that future generations of 'supervillains' are able to handle themselves, and not be stumbling, bumbling fools beaten by meddling do-gooders, as well as passing on skills that are not as appreciated as they could be. From what I was told in my recruitment meeting, Headmistress, you have several promising students, and it is always a shame to let talent go undirected and untested." "Secondly... I want the leverage. The idea that, in four or five years, several supervillains will owe me for what I've taught them, is quite appealing. Hell, just knowing them and setting up a rapport, a history, is useful." "If required, of course, I can also be useful on the battlefield..." The man turned his chair so he was sitting in it sideways, then suddenly grew about half a foot in height and put on about 100 lbs. of additional muscle; his clothing did not shred but rather dissolved into smoke. His skin turned a dark red and then hardened into scales as his face elongated into a fanged muzzle and short, curving horns sprouted over his orange eyes. The nails on his hands became talons, and bone spurs burst out from his elbows; Malice could see spurs on his knees as well. A long, heavy tail lashed out behind him, and great batlike wings grew from his back. "... or in making sure discipline and order are maintained," he said in a growling but resonant bass voice. "Nice suit," he said to Malice, with a big, fanged grin.

Shaen, one idea I had for Dead Head: bigger Defense/Toughness trade-off, all the way to -5 Defense/+5 Toughness, to represent how he deals with most attacks by just soaking them up, not dodging (and b/c that's how he's fought for so long, his skills in dodging & evading have atrophied). Could use the points it would free up to buy Immunity to Critical Hits (and buy off the Weakness drawback), and some other Stupid Undead Tricks.

Archeville was quite pleased to see some people he could identify, and rushed up to Bowman, Captain Thunder and Dark Star. "Ah, some familiar faces at last! Lovely day for an Event, ja?"

"That was the case before I started," he replied. "Since I began consult work a year ago, the department has improved considerably in terms of useful products." "But there certainly are enough fields that are tangentially tied to Darts original model as a weapons manufacturer that they can spread out without venturing into wholly new territories. Dr. Silvers' team has become quite good at metallurgy, particularly in making strong, lightweight conductive materials, which would be useful for any electronics used by the military or explorers. Dr. Reynolds' force field projects have come along quite nicely, and I am sure I do not need to tell you just how wide a field that can be. These two alone could put Darts at the forefront of defensive technology."

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Jim, please post this (with relevant link) to the Timeline thread.