Team Ready, Aim, Fire! Round 3

[InaVegt]

I'm The Veil, mistress of crushing darkness of doom.

Supervillain, if you didn't realize it yet.

[Raiser Blade]

superhero specifics
Cow-Man
Ability to take the form of a cow

[Lord Herman]

And yet another update of the list of contestants:

Superheroes
Akaziel - Telefragging powers
Almighty Salmon (Super Salmon) - Drops giant salmon on people
Baboon Army - Instantly generates random number between -74 and 1,585,092
Destro Yersul (Captain Obvious) - States the obvious and summons trout for no reason
HyramGraff
Ink (Inkman) - Sprays ink at people
pingcode20 (Captain Catastrophe) - Absorbs luck
Raiser B1ade (Cow-man) - Shape-shifts into a cow
RocketBard (Roadie Dude) - Creates electricity with his air guitar

Supervillains
Alarra - Creates pudding
alec
Captain van der Decken (The Blue Serpent) - Hypnotism, changes into a big blue snake
Castaras - Alarra's henchwoman, creates pie
DarkLightDragon (4th Degree) - Freezinating powers
firepup - Shoots bolts of force that somehow always end up killing his cat
Fleeing Coward (Sushi Man) - Turns anything and anyone into sushi
Fredricus (Puzzle-man) - Falls to pieces and becomes whole again
Gezina (The Veil) - Mistress of crushing darkness of doom
Khaldan - Falls off buildings really fast
Lord Fullbladder (Toiletry) - Controls sewage
Moon Called - Blinds people with anime, super strength
Xykon Fan (Lightcrawler) - Tellyportation, Nightcrawler style

Undecided
Atreyu - Prehensile wool
dun-dun-DUUN
Funkyodor
Indurain - Blinds people
Kasz
radikalskippy


When signing up, feel free to specify a superhero/villain name and your superpower(s). You can also choose to be someone's henchman or sidekick. It doesn't have any in-game effect, but it does fit the theme.

If you want to change or add something later on, please do so in a new post.

[Lord Herman]

Here is a list of trophies, per player. This list only shows players who have won at least one trophy, not counting bronze winning team trophies and black medals.

{table]Player|Trophies
Almighty Salmon|
Captain van der Decken|
Castaras|
Fleeing Coward|
Fredricus|
Moon Called|
pingcode20|
Raiser B1ade|[/table]

[Mr. Moon]

I have trophies? *pokes shiney trophies*

Erm... What do they mean, exactly?

[Raiser Blade]

i think you won the one for dying first round
and for being shot at most


*puts trophies on shelf

[Mr. Moon]

Ah, my spectacular death. Of course.

[Lord Herman]

Yes, Raiser B1ade is right.

I guess I should put some information about the trophies in the first post.

edit: Finished! You can now find an explanation about each trophy in the first post.

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

sign me up this time. Oh, and please put me on the auto-notify list as well.

[Ezlo]

I call hero, and something to do with Meatloaf.

[Castaras]

Castaras|

I can has trophies?

Yay! *Goes to put in sig*

[Lord Herman]

Only half an hour left before sign-ups end. So if you want to play, sign up quickly.

Sign-ups are closed. The introduction will be up soon.

[Lord Herman]

Urbopolis City. Home of five million people. A concrete jungle of skyscrapers, dark alleys, and eternal traffic jams. On a rooftop of an abandoned apartment building, two dark figures are standing next to a large, rumbling machine. “Finally,” says one, “my plan has come to fruition! Soon, the whole city will be covered in pudding!” The other one sniggers, and says: “And you, my mistress, will be its supreme ruler!”

They are just about to burst into diabolical laughter, as four men and a llama in brightly coloured spandex suddenly burst onto the scene. “Not so fast, Alarra,” says Captain Obvious, “we are here to stop you from completing your plan that involves covering the entire city in pudding, making you its supreme ruler!” Inkman, Super Salmon, Cow-man, and the Masked Llama close around the villains. “Damnation! The Spandex League! We are foiled again!” Alarra turns around. “Quickly, Castaras, to the secret escape route!”

The heroes go after them, but the villains run through a bright red door marked ‘secret escape route’, and with a loud click, the door is locked behind them. Captain Obvious tries to open it, but to no avail. “The door won’t open,” he says. Cow-man, wearing his white spandex suit with big black spots, steps up to the door. “Even my bovine powers cannot open this. The Lady of Pudding has escaped once again.”

While the heroes return to Spandex League Headquarters, Alarra and Castaras report to their leader, known only as ‘The Veil’. “Excuse us, mistress of crushing dark and doom,” says Alarra, groveling on the ground, “we have failed. The Spandex League found out about the plan.” Alarra cannot read the reaction on The Veil’s face – mostly because it’s completely covered with a black veil – but she is obviously displeased. “How many times does that make now? Twenty-seven? Dammit, why do I keep sending you incompetents on such important errands? But no matter. I have a plan that will spell doom for the Spandex League, and all of Urbopolis city. Alarra, I want you to assemble the Circle of Bad Guys. Tell them I have a villainous plot to discuss.”

Meanwhile, in Spandex League Headquarters, the heroes are having an argument. “No, Ezlo! No, no, no! I don’t care if it’s your turn to organize the Spandex League Anniversary Celebration. You can’t rename it Meatloaf Day! Seriously, if you…” suddenly, Captain Obvious is cut short by a loud alarm. “I hear an alarm! Quickly, to the Plot Device!” The heroes gather around the big beeping machine known as the Plot Device. It is covered with blinking lights, and it is spewing out a ticker tape. “Here, the Plot Device is spewing out a ticker tape. It reads: ‘Evil plot afoot. Circle of Bad Guys convenes. City in danger.’ Oh no! The city is in danger! We need to do something!” Captain Obvious is about to run off, Roadie Dude grabs his arm. “Wait up, man. Maybe the machine will give us some more plot information. Maybe something about, oh, I don’t know, what the plot is about, and where it is being… uhm… plotted?”

“So, esssentially,” says the Blue Serpent in his strange hissing voice, “your plot iss to place a big laser on top of a tall building, and sstart sshooting sstuff?” The Veil sounds annoyed. “It’s called a Death Ray. And yeah, that’s the plan. Of course, we’ll blow up Spandex League Headquarters first, and then work our way down.” “Ssoundss like a good plan to me. Evil. Diabolical, even.” The villains nod in agreement. “Well, that’s settled then. We’ll meet at midnight on top of Really Tall Tower. It’s the tallest building in the city; perfect for our plan.”

[Lord Herman]

Superheroes
Akaziel - Telefragging powers
Almighty Salmon (Super Salmon) - Drops giant salmon on people
Atreyu (The Masked Llama) - Prehensile wool
Baboon Army - Instantly generates random number between -74 and 1,585,092
Destro Yersul (Captain Obvious) - States the obvious and summons trout for no reason
Ezlo
HyramGraff
Indurain - Blinds people
Ink (Inkman) - Sprays ink at people
Kasz
pingcode20 (Captain Catastrophe) - Absorbs luck
radikalskippy
Raiser B1ade (Cow-man) - Shape-shifts into a cow
RocketBard (Roadie Dude) - Creates electricity with his air guitar

Supervillains
Alarra - Creates pudding
alec
Captain van der Decken (The Blue Serpent) - Hypnotism, changes into a big blue snake
Castaras - Alarra's henchwoman, creates pie
DarkLightDragon (4th Degree) - Freezinating powers
dun-dun-DUUN
firepup - Shoots bolts of force that somehow always end up killing his cat
Fleeing Coward (Sushi Man) - Turns anything and anyone into sushi
Fredricus (Puzzle-man) - Falls to pieces and becomes whole again
Funkyodor
Gezina (The Veil) - Mistress of crushing darkness of doom
Khaldan - Falls off buildings really fast
Lord Fullbladder (Toiletry) - Controls sewage
Moon Called - Blinds people with anime, super strength
purple gelatinous cube o' Doom
Xykon Fan (Lightcrawler) - Tellyportation, Nightcrawler style


Please submit your actions before Tuesday, 18:00 GMT. Anyone who doesn't have a hero/villian name or superpowers can still submit them - I will think up something for those who don't, but I prefer using player input.

[InaVegt]

The Veil smiles wickedly at the lesser villains.

Muahahahahahaha!

[Lord Herman]

I still need a lot of actions. The deadline is tomorrow, 18:00 GMT.

[Krursk]

Why is Gez always the evil head honcho? I mean two games in a row, that can't be coincedence

[Skippy]

Well, since I'm on the good side, I will be called Sentinel Skippy, with powers to control Peanut Butter!!!

[Ezlo]

Yay! Meatloaf Day! Everyone like my new avatar btw?


I'm thinking I want to be a sidekick to Inkman, I'll be called MeatloafBoy, and I'll have the powers of creating meatloaf. Poisoned Meatloaf.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Poisoned Meatloaf isn't very heroic. But then neither is sucking away people's luck.

[HyramGraff]

He may not have had a choice in what his powers were growing up. He could only choose to use his power for good or for awesome.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Classically, the worst powers are usually scorned and their owners driven away like Dr. Frankenstein when he came looking for donations.

For instance, if an infant could command raw sewage, there's a much greater chance he'd end up living in the sewers as a bitter, surface-hating monstrosity than if he had expressed the ability to turn into a cow.

It's likely that a child or even an adult or others, having first created a poisoned meatloaf, would not know that it was poisoned, and say "Hey! Our kid/acquaintance/I can make food! Happy day! Let us gather our friends/family and have a feast/party!"

The deaths of these people would likely cause the child/person to be mistrusted, or he'd wind up an orphan with guilt issues. Historically, this has led to villainy.

My rants are often wrong and crappy even if right. If so, it may be disregarded as such. That is all.

[Krursk]

It could be a lesser-of-two-evils kinda thing. Ezlo could be a villain who's just working with the Spandex League because, say, his house is right next to the Spandex League HQ and villains are notoriously inaccurate.

[Lord Herman]

HyramGraff, you have the wrong trophy in your sig. You didn't survive round 1, so you get the bronze trophy, not the silver one.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

It could be a lesser-of-two-evils kinda thing. Ezlo could be a villain who's just working with the Spandex League because, say, his house is right next to the Spandex League HQ and villains are notoriously inaccurate.

Hmmm... I suppose so. I mean, if they have a llama, theyu'd probably let anyone in.

[HyramGraff]

My appologies about the trophy. I only saw the silver ones from the first round. Could you point me to the bronze ones please?

Edit: I found the post where the bronze trophy was awarded. http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=108 if anyone's interested.

[firepup]

Hmmm... I suppose so. I mean, if they have a llama, theyu'd probably let anyone in.

Yeah, I mean, they let a Llama in, they probably have no problem with a talking hat. I mean the circle of villians at worst has an @ symbol working for it.

[firepup]

My appologies about the trophy. I only saw the silver ones from the first round. Could you point me to the bronze ones please?

*poisons link* http://home.planet.nl/~hdgoede/tdg/S.../WinBronze.png
You saw nothing.

[Raiser Blade]

I just realized we are outnumbered

but as han solo would say "Never tell me the odds."

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Yeah, I mean, they let a Llama in, they probably have no problem with a talking hat. I mean the circle of villians at worst has an @ symbol working for it.

...

Not entirely what I was getting at.