Had a short oneshot today. Go team Underdogs! We rolled with an Outsider, a Bull, and the Doomed. Thanks Dan Luxenberg for running.
I played Citizen 1, alias Una Marr, a 5th columnist from Communist Atlantis. (Atlantis was introduced to Communism after a failed mission in 1960 by Yuri Gangarin; he introduced ideals but told nobody, hoping to keep his Secret Army as an ace-in-the-hole if he ever fell out of the party’s favor. He died at age 32, so the secret was buried with him.)
Being free from outside influence, Atlantis succeeded as a communist country, and after a delayed invasion (during which the Soviet Union collapsed), they started infiltrating the world instead of conquering it. Una, 15, is the first operative in Halcyon City.
Her rival was the angry Panther, daughter of Madame Machina and Faceless Man. Panther was a combat MACHINE, rolling 10+ on every Engage-an-enemy check. As brutal a front-liner as you could hope for.
Her sister Annie-Morph led to our first team-up; as Panther fought her sister, our team stopped her parents. Or tried to; the mission ended up in a destroyed First National Bank.
(Which HEAVILY politicized Citizen 1.)
Our trio was rounded out by Steel(cloud), who had invented a sentient nanite swarm from weird internet outlines. The swarm was powerful, but it would eventually convert his body if he didn’t find a cure.
His garage (where he tinkered with the cloud) was our headquarters, despite his parents being home all the time, since their bank branch was being rebuilt.
The session was brief: we heard the crime alert, borrowed Steel’s parents’ car, and headed to the UN Building. Outside, terrorists from ex Soviet-satellite Tzardonia clashed with police. We defeated them handily (with Panther punching out two different villains without getting a scratch), but hired thug Demolition Man had different plans. In fact, he kept exploding (once when he was pissed off, again when he was knocked unconscious).
Despite our teams’ best efforts, the Adults just didn’t understand. The thugs were arrested but the Tzardonian villains were let off with diplomatic immunity. Our team angrily went for milkshakes. In the closing montage, we found out Panthers’ parents are working with the Tzardonians.
We also saw Citizen 1 walk into the Daily Worker’s offices, disguised as the head diplomat of Tzardonia, and stir the shit by telling the editor…
“I want to destroy the United States!”
