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Post by carandini on Apr 10, 2010 11:52:30 GMT -5
This thread is for idea-bashing. Here we can toss ideas for characters or plots into the mix, debate back and forth, and then get down to the hard and nasty of actually developing them.
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Post by carandini on Apr 10, 2010 11:58:02 GMT -5
Fey - This is an idea for a dark and mysterious member of the Imperials, a sinister representative of the Unseelie Court, the Faeries of Britain. Fey outwardly resembles a young woman of unearthly beauty, but there is a haunting, disturbing quality to her that is actually repulsive despite her attractive appearance.
Fey is a sorceress, capable of working magic. Her most common abilities are changing her shape and becoming invisible, however. Her vulnerabilities are those of the Faerie Folk: she is noticeably more powerful at dark, she becomes weak on holy ground or around the symbols and artefacts of the Church, and she has a reaction to iron that is similar to the way silver affects werewolves.
Fey joins the Imperials in answer to an acient pact between the Unseelie Court and a particular noble house in Wales. Despite fighting for the Allies, she has no vested interest in the Allied cause and a chilling lack of empathy or feeling for the innocents being killed by the war. After all, they're only human.
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Post by carandini on Apr 10, 2010 12:05:29 GMT -5
Glym Jack
Glym Jack was one of England's most notorious thieves, a professional criminal who practiced his crimes not for wealth but from the thrill of the hunt. Very similar to, say, David Niven's Phantom in the Pink Panther movies. Because of his daring and the high profile of his targets, such as the Crown Jewels on one occasion, Glym Jack came into conflict with Avalon and several of Britain's heroes over the years. Finally apprehended, he was sentenced to a lengthy term in Dartmor. With the war on, however, the British government sees a use for Glym Jack's epxertise at sneaking into places and breaking into them unobserved. They offered him a pardon if he would support the war effort and join the Imperials.
Glym Jack is an adventurous, bold and reckless sort of man who very much lives in the moment. He uses a wide array of tools he's designed himself in committing his crimes, including such things as tiny capsules that when snapped open cause a blinding flash of light to disorient guards, special devices to emulate any key, ellaborate gear to overcome time locks and combinations, as well as a wide range of gadgets for climbing unlikely surfaces like glass walls and tile ceilings.
The name Glym Jack itself stems from old British slang for a thief.
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Post by carandini on Apr 10, 2010 12:10:48 GMT -5
Old Mr. Grim
The ghost of a 17th century highwayman who was cursed by the Archbishop of Canterbury that he would find no peace until he attoned for his wickedness, the spectre called Old Mr. Grim presents a chilling sight - a skeleton dressed in the tattered remains of 17th century clothes and cloak. He bears a brace of horse pistols which fire unearthly bullets of ectoplasm. These ectoplasm shells can pass through any substance, but isntead of physical damage, these bullets affect the target's soul.
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Post by John Helmer on Apr 10, 2010 14:00:02 GMT -5
This guy is nuts!!! Old Mr. Grim The ghost of a 17th century highwayman who was cursed by the Archbishop of Canterbury that he would find no peace until he attoned for his wickedness, the spectre called Old Mr. Grim presents a chilling sight - a skeleton dressed in the tattered remains of 17th century clothes and cloak. He bears a brace of horse pistols which fire unearthly bullets of ectoplasm. These ectoplasm shells can pass through any substance, but isntead of physical damage, these bullets affect the target's soul.
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Post by carandini on Apr 12, 2010 7:12:20 GMT -5
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Post by carandini on Apr 17, 2010 3:26:27 GMT -5
Well, Old Mr. Grim is up. I even worked the Leaf into his background.
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Post by John Helmer on Apr 17, 2010 10:30:33 GMT -5
I read that! He's awesome! Hey, don't for get that its Winston Churchill's IMPERIALS not Imperials.
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Post by John Helmer on Apr 17, 2010 10:34:40 GMT -5
For the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French), I'm going to have a squad of French heroes go with the 320 men to defend Berlin in April, 1945. Most will be killed or captured by the Russian heroes you've created. They will be last defenders of Hitler's Führerbunker, Sturmbataillon 99!
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Post by carandini on May 1, 2010 1:22:38 GMT -5
We should have a French hero who later sides with the Vichy regime after helping the Imperials early in the war. He'd make a perfect canidate for your Charlemagne division die-hards.
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Post by carandini on May 1, 2010 1:32:04 GMT -5
Some ideas for a few German 'heroes' of various calibre:
Der Sturmfuehrer - An SA sturmbahnfuehrer who was smashing up a Jewish-owned antique shop in Berlin during Krystallnacht, this thug was begged by the proprietor not to destroy his shop and even offered a bribe to stop: a strange silver medalion. The SA thugs smashed up the shop anyway and beat the old Jew to death for daring to try and bribe their leader. Der Sturmfuehrer, however, soon discovered the medalion had strange powers. When he held it clenched in his fist it caused his body to course with energy, like a continuous shock of static electricity. The senastion was excruciating, but while his body was charged, Der Sturmfuehrer could project blasts of withering electricity. An arrogant bully even before joining the SA, he became an even more brutal thug with his new powers, soon coming to the attention of his superiors and employed as another example of the Nazi master race. Such is his swaggering overconfidence that he's even tried to throw his weight around with regards to otehr heroes, resulting in a sound thrashing from Ubermann on three occassions. However, Der Sturmfuehrer is continually increasing his powers and his resistance to the electrical charge from the medallion each time he uses it. The time may ocme when he really is more powerful than Ubermann.
What Der Sturmfuehrer doesn't know is that the old Jew meant for him to have the medallion, knwoing what the SA would do to him. His powers aren't a blessing, but a curse. It isn't just electricty he's channeling when he clutches the medallion...
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Post by carandini on May 1, 2010 1:34:09 GMT -5
Sonderkommando - A German version of Nick Fury based loosely upon the careers of Otto Skorzeny, Ernst Roehm and Walther Stennes all rolled into one Nazi bad-ass mo'fo. Could act as Eisernteufel's enforcer, or maybe Major Skimmel if we make him Abwehr instead of SD/SS. A good German counterpart for Victoria Cross.
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Post by carandini on May 1, 2010 1:37:14 GMT -5
Fenrir - A German werewolf from the Black Forest who takes on the name of the mythical Norse monster. He's the mastermind behind the recruitment of Germans from Alsace-Lorraine to form a vicious cadre of werewolf-terrorists which will disguise themselves as French soldiers and 'escape' to England along with the other soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk. Fenrir has far less control of his bestial side than Johnny Dingo, something that could be exploited by those opposing him.
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Post by carandini on May 1, 2010 1:48:54 GMT -5
And another nomination for the Imperials themselves:
Dreadnaught - The Dreadnaught is a huge, monstrous suit of powered armor designed by a crippled WWI veteran determined to fight for his country in this new war. Fitted with a withering array of machine guns and a gun that can fire pykrete, a sort fo liquid ice, the Dreadnaught is a formidable engine of destruction and havoc in the service of the Allies.
I'm thinking we make the creator/operator of the Dreadnaught a wildly eccentric Scot, sort of a cross between Sean Connery and David Tennant - brilliant but absent-minded, yet capable of being a remorseless killer when the need arises.
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Post by carandini on May 12, 2010 5:06:28 GMT -5
Hex - Hex is a German witch, the mistress of the aging Austrian villain from WWI called Der Beobachter. In the interwar period, she used her relationship with the old sorcerer to steal his arcane secrets. Since that time, she has joined the SS in order to learn even darker magics. By the time WWII rolls around, Hex has become far more powerful than her old mentor and is capable of commanding the elements themselves, changing her form at will, dominating the minds of men, and the always dreaded ability to inflict a 'bad luck curse' on her enemies. She's less a believer in Nazi doctrine than she is a power-mad woman obsessed with increasing her own sorcerous knowledge and using whatever means necessary to accomplish her goals.
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