Even Heroes Bleed Issue #15 BAM! Bash is now up on anchor for all you supers fan's listening pleasure.
Frustratingly enough, this is the third issue in a row that has included the new supervillain NTROBee and the third issue in a row where all the scenes with NTROBee in it the audio got corrupted or the record button didn't get pushed down. Way to bad because the scenes have had a great effect on new tensions and drama being generated in game in real time and the player's reactions have been great. Also, the meta-currency of Hero/Villain points was on full display and showed how they worked really well supporting the genre and action intent.
Here are the three action encounters featuring NTROBee in brief;
Red Runner's dad, Andrew Meyer, is in town on business and finds his son at the Wayward Journey, a bar where Red and his band Swollen Shut are set to play. During the gig NTROBee attacks Andrew Meyer. NTROBee is an eco-terrorist and Mr. Meyer works for an aggressive development corporation gobbling up important habitat for more skyscrapers and strip malls. Red Runner confronts the attacker and drives him off but not before 12 bystanders were injured and 3 killed from bee stings.
Later, Bug and Red figure out what the villain is about and manage to track him down. In another violent encounter, NTROBee's power over killer bees is too much for Bug and Red to overcome and NTROBee escapes.
NTROBee is confronted one more time at the Town & Campus bookstore and a tense stand-off ensues. In exchange for letting the eco-terrorist leave the city he won't kill the innocent bystanders shopping in the bookstore.
With NTROBee chased out of the city the heroes return to their immediate problems; the Russian mob trying to kill them and catching those who firebombed the Baltimore.
Going to need one of the players as a back up recorder I guess.
ReplyDeleteAlso is your secondary record function still set to work in Bandicam?
ReplyDeleteIt is, the problem as I see it is I switch to a bluetooth speaker all the time for music. This an Audition, the audio software can fiddle with the sound settings. If I don't remember to check everything before the game starts I end up with my channel getting switched off. As for missing segments, I forget to push record after our break. So I have to stop that.
DeleteInteresting to hear that Bug struggled a bit with NTROBee.And that NTROBee whilst a terrorist is a similar shade of grey to Reds Dad.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe all three appearances of NTROBee have not made it to tape. The player had included in his background that his brother and father also have superpowers and getting out of his father's shadow is part of his character's motivation to move to Capitol City and start doing some public super hero-ing.
ReplyDeleteI placed this villain in the game to give Red Runner a subplot which linked to his own ideas. The player had only two details worked up at this point. He had defined his father as not a public superhero even though he had powers, and he was not keen on Red Runner going public with his.
So why not have Mr. Meyer show up now that Warren has gone and done some very public super hero-ing? Backstory stuff in superhero games is meant to get used. They are levers the player has set up indicating things they are into and want to roleplay. And I'm trying to pull these levers with something worth roleplaying. And I had this super powered eco-terrorist who could control bees that I wanted to use, I figured a way to tie them together and released them out into the world.
The players have put in excellent work to bring this subplot to life!