An update from the PBP Villain Team MASKs game.
I finally got back into things after a pretty nasty car wreck earlier this year (had a player drop during that time) but man did we swing back into things hard.
The fun part of running a game for Villains is making enemies that are more evil than they are, forcing them to be anti-heroes as well as a group of people willing to do whatever they want. I came up with the Gaunt Creeper, a swaddled and bound villan(ness) who was so angry at the world for disfiguring them that all they wanted to do was spread their pain by subsonically triggering self-harm centers in the human body.
The Delinquent who is a cybernetic hacker mixed with Harley Quinn short circuited the sound system and pumped in battle music to hype the team up as the Janus used the Gaunt Creeper’s explosive entrance to summon a horde of cockroaches from the sewers to clear out the public due to squeamishness.
The Beacon and Protege directly engaged the new target and our new member (who so perfectly chose my homemade playbook “The Trainer”) used his demonic patrona to burn the costume off the Gaunt Creeper, exposing it to its own image as the Protege tapped and shared her neural networking to force the Gaunt Creeper to look at itself through her own eyes as she deviously slashed and struck at it. The Beacon sword fought the being with the lightsaber I had so kindly graced him with as a bonus for the new Star Wars release last year to scar the being even more.
Once it had been taken out, in true villain style, the Protege took leadership and put the Gaunt Creeper out of their misery and they are now super stars of Halcyon city…and the envy of many heroes who were caught off guard and busy saving the public.
I have never been prouder to be gut punched by my players and had great fun with their rolls and actions. I am even more proud to be able to create villains that are not super ultra mega neonazis to get the villains to want to save people as well as make their own mark on the City.
Next the villains are teaming up with their mentors and parents to delve into Halcyon City government vaults to break out the mcguffin for the Protege’s mentor (who, revitalized like Gadget Gal from the Awesomes has been hitting on the Janus in his hormonal teen self).
To my great players and many more awesome sessions!