Micheal Zulo originally was a 150 point thief-turned-assassin/spy for the British Intelligence Agency in Londonium, of the New Roman Empire. Serving in England after escaping the war of Europe, he left his home in Paris to turn legit, using his array of infiltration skills and general craftiness(and WEALTH from foreign investment in his illicit activities) to become one of BIA's best agents.

The campaign revolved around Michael teaming up with Arcus Fuckasso(an Italian sniper/mage) and Simon Tarrasque (the Hollywood gunslinger). Pulled from their reality to play poker with an old one of the universe, they tracked three relics across the world to thwart Armageddon at the hands of Victor Von Krupp.

Later, they were accidentally teleported to the island of Florida(ravaged by nuclear war) after plugging robo-jesus with .45 calibur slugs, and they ransacked a Nazi-run robot factory on the island, hopefully implicating the Germanian government in the process.

After that plan fell through, they were attacked at the opera by rifle wielding vikings, and were sent with a strike-force to deal with the Scandian threat. Their ships were sunk by Ymir, they fled to land, and still fucked up the Titanium mine they found there. The blimp they stole in the name of England? None other than Krupp's! His otherworldly form ravaged by nightmarish far realm energies, they trapped in a vault in the basement of the BIA in Londonium. They really hate that guy.

Recently, they've been on the case of the Hollywood Heist; several banks in Londonium (including one the PC's were in one morning) were robbed of their gold bullion. The perpetrators were robots in APC's, which escaped into the November chilled Thames river. Investigation led HOWARD HUGHES, LEADER OF THE NATION OF HOLLYWOOD to Londonium, where he swiftly used his vast political and economic clout to head the investigation, setting the party loose top search for his gold.

The trail led them to fighting a giant root spider in a warehouse, head to hollywoodland itself, fighting a factory floor of robot workers with stun laser rifles. They found gold smelting equipment in that bastment, and following the trail of the Spruce Goose, they began to see a smuggling operation involving the top three leaders of the nation emerging.

The robots destroyed in the factory were powered by strange vials filled with a green glowing fluid, no larger than a D-battery and pulsing with energy. Plugging the strange device into a television(with color!) had the party speaking with a ghost of one max Klaus, who had been attacked in his town of silversmith twenty years ago, and transformed into the AEther Vial they now had. His description of a 'giant robot shooting green blasts of light' nearly exactly described the robot they encountered before, and the party was off yet again to the city of silversmith in the ohio mountains to avenge his death.

>>3694798
Holy shit. Never stop posting.

The infiltration of the facility led to the encounter of Michael and the demon in his head(which he picked up when they went to Florida; experimental germanian demon-bonded medicines used to save his life).

And now, here we are, with Michael now looking hideous and clawed, red snake-like flesh stretched across his now fearsome frame.

So, thoughts? Ideas? I'm still looking to expand on the Tesla base, but all I know is its an AEther vial producing facility, with natural caverns and a vein of Titanium being its major features. Maybe in underground waterfall as well...

This totally NEEDS to be an anime or something.


>>3694859


As far as ideas: the Aether Vial idea was given to Tesla by demons from strange GLOWING PITS found deep in the mine. Also cocks.

what game is this?

If this is another 'let's pretend a system/setting we really want to play in exists' thread, I swear someone is GOING TO DIE.

>>3694906
GURPS 4e home brew
>>3694908
no really, we play this every Monday in my dining room

Anyways, the AEther vials are created when Tesla combines a shock of high AC/DC electricity, a human soul, and a slurry of liquefied NuKrystal. The crystal is formed form consolidated radiation, or congealed fallout if you will, from the barren lands of the former United States of Columbia. When the Nazi's nuked the coastline in the early winter of 1918, they shattered the continent, and sent a wave of radiation into the West.

The Sioux Shamans and Louisianan Voodooists stopped the plague of deadly green fire by using their combined magical might to coalesce the material into pillars of NuKrystal. Effectively, they fenced off the Eastern wasteland with magical pillars of nuclear radiation, shunting the Ley-lines along the continent North and South around the lands forever.

>>3694908

While the 150 point blah blah implies it is not being played in Spirit of the Centruy. THIS IS TOTALLY A SPIRT OF THE CENTUARY GAME.

Here, have a free SRD.

http://bzr.mausdompteur.de/fate3/fate3.html


As far as things in the base, I've always been partial to a social group of intelligent ugly creatures (goblins, trolls, Fallout Ghouls, ect) that can be used by the players to negate the home ground advantage the enemies have.

Either as an uprising, guides through the secret warren of passages built over each other through the centuries as this location went through different owners who all built on it.

Link it back up with historic bad guys that used to own it, preferabbly two different groups. Even better if they are somewhat opposed either to each other or the current group, so you can do a time travel arc.

>>3694953
can I play this every Monday in your dining room? Or perhaps in my dining room.

>>3694798

This reminds me of Dark Tower. Newfags won't get this.

>>3694984
HAH, probably because its a dark tower ripoff? Yeah I noticed that too.

The sniper calls his guns 'Hermoine and Ginny'

>>3695017

Ripoff? It's a picture from the Dark Tower graphic novel.

>>3695017
oh fuck, or RATHER, the Hollywood type named his guns. The sniper is just a Mage-2 as well as a guy with a skill-22 in Guns/TL7(Rifle)

Hey OP!
Last thread on sup/tg/ is 4 months old.
Did you take a break from posting, or other threads weren't saved?

>>3695028
He meant the text, rather than the image.

It is not Friday yet, you have no right to be this drunk, when I am sober.

>>3695102
took a break, my typing hands were tired.

we have a fourth player now as well, though she may have to leave for being ANNOYING.

She plays a Sioux scout with titanium infantry body armor, an AK-47 and the ability to turn Invisible at will, completely and with all her equipment. She can also read minds, but has forgotten about her ability because she's so very ADHD and new to GURPS.

>>3695129

Sounds like a girlfriend...
This will end badly.

>>3694859
Does Tesla live in the facility? Or is his primary workshop there at least?

I was thinking maybe the place could have all his half-baked experiments no one ever heard about like half-gimped electroclockwork talking tinker toys, electro-Christmas trees and... other stuff. Like that episode of Dexter's Lab where he accidentally gets thrown to the old part of his lab with all his old, forgotten inventions.

>>3695129
This sounds... fun.

bump

>>3695540
fiancee actually, and no, just tired. Shes awesome, and games with us in another group (NEVER GM FOR A GIRLFRIEND, OR VICE VERSA)
>>3695555
he will, but Im also thinking its not Nikola tesla but his son, or its a robot duplicate. Otherwise, yes, there will be older versions of the tin men around, just, hardline powered versions I guess.
>>3695112
I wish I was drunk too ( ._.)

So, here's what I slapped on Michael Zulo, as well as an excerpt from the 'handwavium' that went on.

As the darkness swollows you, you fall back, deep within yourself. The cool dark void swallows you, digesting your thoughts, clearing your mind. You see nothing, you hear nothing, you feel nothing.

Time passes, and you drift. you don't know how long, but the first feeling you have after the void is a hand grabbing yours and yanking you to your feet. You open your eyes to the bright world around you, and the glare blinds you for a moment. As your vision clears, your senses sharpen, and you feel the rough, pebbly skin holding your hand, and smell the fetid brimstone breath in the air. Your eyes adjust, and the shilouette of the demon in your head stands before you, his hand clasped across yours. You cannot see his face until he smiles, and his sharp teeth glint like polished knives. He pulls you forward, and leans into your ear in a loving embrace.

whispering roughly into your ear he says "Hello brother. Welcome to OUR side." and you feel the cold sharp pain in your gut. Pushing the demon away as he cackles, you see his sabre protruding from your gut, your blood oozing down the blade.

Then everything falls into darkness again, and the last thing you remember is his laughter, and his thanks.

Disadvantages[-80]
==================

Appearance (Monstrous) [-20]
Bloodlust (12 or less) [-10]
Disturbing Voice [-10]
Social Stigma (Monster) [-15]
Vulnerability (Silver) (Occasional) (x2) [-20]
Selfish (12 or less)[-5]

Advantages [+96]
================

Claws (Sharp Claws) [5*]
Damage Resistance (5) [25*]
Damage Resistance (5) (Limited Defense: Common (burning); Force Field) [20]
Regeneration (slow, 1/12hrs) [10]
Very rapid healing [*0]
Resistant +3 to Metabolic Hazards [15]
Striking ST (4) [20]

Signature Gear (Silver edged sword) (1) [1]

Very fine silver edged Cavalry sabre [broadsword] sw+3 cut, thr+3 imp, reach 1/1, summonable as a ready action


Skills[+4]
==========
Broadsword +4pts

Soooo....

I'm thinking the next major plot arc will involve an invasion from DIMENSION X! The ancient race of the elves have been living there, abandoning their role as the Aztecs thousands of years ago when they mysteriously developed a plague of world-spanning proportions.

The party has encountered the elves three times in the last few bits of Nova Europa play testing:
-As the explorers of the wasteland, the samurai, peyote addicted Indian and water-mage encountered a replenishment group, dedicated to restoring some level of civilization top the wasteland. Their efforts were basic in scope and small scale, restoring water refurbishment to small villages, and helping the mutant savages re-learn to farm.
-The three giant robot pilots fought the Azteks/Elves as major enemies, beating back a horde of Gold-plated tarantula shirow style robots and giant stone golem creatures. Mostly they had fun with 6dX2(2)Pi++ rifles and 5d Rof 50! miniguns.
-The Europe crew(as previously described in the titanium mountain adventure) ran afoul of an adapted shirow spider robot. It had a human pilot mechanically added to the structure, his life-force used to power and direct the mecha.

as well, Krupp was using an orphaned elf child who was a natural warper to teleport his titanium dirigible around Europe. The orphan is now in 'protective custody' and is being investigated by the BIA as a 'potential ally or power source'.

>>3696760
FUCK YEAH.

so....the PC's will encounter a bit more of the elf tech in Tesla's lab. Maybe even an agent. If all this brew-haha over the theft of the gold and political intrigue can be re-directed to a massive conspiracy pointing to the elves, I can make everything they've run through up to this point look like it was all INTENTIONAL rather than just episodic...

So, motivation. The elves wanna retake the earth, but humans are up to no good, understanding magic and technology. They've advanced too far, and the elves, weakened by not making ANY PROGRESS in the last 3000 y ears, need to fuck with world politics just enough to cause a massive war, but not a nuclear one.

[Mostly, nuclear war isn't in the options anyways. The Nazi's made the final technological leaps by 1918, but the feasibility of rocketry falls flat when a single mage can protect a large area(the size of several thousand acres) from missile fire, or even just dedicate their lives to air superiority. Basically, nukes are NOT viable options for war in any way in Nova Europa.]

encounter-wise, im thinking they need to fight a lightning tank, or maybe just a lighting flamethrower guy...

and she might need to make an appearance as the elven envoy from N-space...just to complicate shit for the PC's

>-As the explorers of the wasteland, the samurai, peyote addicted Indian and water-mage encountered a

OW FUCK. I can't read that much awesome in a single sentence! It causes a stone bitch of a headache.

as well, I need to flesh out and STANDARDIZE my idea of the elves.

Originally I envisioned them as the masterful overpowering race of super scientists, with advanced robotics and flight powers. After all theyre aliens.

but then I got to thinking of ALAN MOORE and what he would do, and I thought 'why be space faring, when you can be world JUMPING'. especially with the jumper advantage in GURPS...

So now, the elves dont really have projectile technologies, or they favor other tech disdaining 'the baser materiel weapons of the savages' to give them that aloof, elfy feel, while still maintaining their scifi appeal.

so now I have robot mecha, melee weapons, and elves fighting in advanced armor, but without ranged powerhousing. Maybe a long range spear thingy like from stargate SG-1, but nothing too powerful. The human race needs to be able to fight BACK after all this is said and done, so no master race invasions. they are sickly these elves, so they have to have a frailty. maybe a racial weakness to 'cold iron' or something crazy like that.

Actually, what if they were VULNERABLE to the modern firearm, but the higher-ups in power wouldn't or couldnt acknowledge this or they would lose the power of the people. That way, guns REALLY fuck them up, but they have wicked melee skills('DONT LET THEM CLOSE MEN!") and THEN the PC's have to find this achilles' heel as a quest objective.

So, what should the Elves be vulnerable/susceptible to? Lead? Silver? Disease or something? I wanna make it common, and powerful o an individual, but I'm not looking for a fucking phage to unleash here...

okay, so, cheesecake to the rescue here.

HEY HERE WE GO!
terminally ill!
"you will die soon! you have a lowered life expectancy uncommon for your race due to curse, disease or other nasty things"
-50 pts, but then I throw on a mitigator for a -70% point break( a monthly treatment that makes the disease push back. magic chemo if you will) and then the race has the -15 point theme I want them to have.

>>3697247
Iron. Specifically cold iron. As in not mass-produced-made at the lower temperatures of a village forge.

fuckit, theyre getting psionic powers now too, just for shits n giggles

>>3697345
I made it steel, as they use a more common crystal lattic they can cultivate and shape into material as a renewable resource in the void of the N ZONE!

>>3697247
Um... I was going to say Kryptonite, but... Hmm. Some other radioactive rock? Uranium or whatever's common in that world?

>>3697397
Elves and psionics go together quite well, especially stuff that fucks with people's heads.

Also, I salute you.

>>3697500
thanks man

so, another thing, I need a name for doctor bitch here
>>3697021
so the PC's can yell it out as they kill the bitch

>>3697520
"Yo, She-Bitch!"

>>3694984
People who don't read shitty novels won't get this.

>>3697520
Callisto? For that exotic-yet-sophisticated feel, Greek myths are always a good choice.

>>3697727
hells yeah, and now I can allude to their near agelessness with subtle hints of old god names and mythic nomencalture

>>3697757
Throw one named Daedalus in there. Just for shits and giggles. Have him have an old grudge because of the death of his son.

bump

>>3696502

Fiancé eh? Well, that might actually work quite well.

I wish I was drunk...

>>3697681

You did not just call Darktower shit.

so! I am awake again! Now I need names for the elves!

Anyone here versed in old greek/roman/aztec naming scheemes?

Thing is, they'll mostly be phonetic knockoff of the actual elven symbol names. Michael would be MI KA EL smoothed down, for an example.

>>3701345

MI KA EL, eh? This sparked an Idea:

1. Make a basic Syllabary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary) based on Hiragana or Katakana.

2. Give certain information of plot importance realted to elves only in wriiten form, using this Syllabary.

3. Let them decipher said scriptures. They may have to hunt for further information about the language before the coin drops, and they know what to do. Give them the meanings of about 5 to 10 glyphs for example, but they must earn it.

It´s a nice way of "hiding" important information, and if done right the hunt for more hints on how to decipher the language can make for lots and lots of motivation.

Oh, and for that elvish touch, you might want to make it so that it is almost impossible for a human to learn anything but written , because of tone of voice and other subtleties making spoken Elv-speak much too complicated to fathoom.

Of course they could allso just abduct someone, or completely ignore it all together.
But thats the beauty of GMing: giving your players a fuckload of choices and seeing what they do.

Oh and: "I just chose to come before you savage brutes bearing this simple and most unsophisticated name because you would never be able to properly pronounce my true *insert elfen word meaning both name and identity or soul."

Ares · Artemis · Aphrodite · Apollo
Athena · Demeter · Dionysus · Hera ·
Hermes · Hephaestus · Poseidon · Zeus
Aether · Chaos · Chronos · Erebus
Gaia · Hemera · Nyx · Tartarus · Oranos
Eros · Hebe · Hecate · Helios
Herakles · Hestia · Iris · Selene · Pan · Nike


Hmmm, seems like a good list. And all the naming is in basic phonetics already.

Now, these fuckers, and I use the term loosely, are all older than shit itself. They've manipulated the world from beyond time, in their DIMENSION N and are designing the end of the world, and their regaining of their golden thrones in South America. They represent the ideals of puppet stringing, tzeneetchian manipulative, fuck-you-backstabbery in any world. And they were far too pretty doing it too, because they are all elven.

I think the players are going to eat it up.

>>3701650 here

Scrap the part on Syllabarys. Give them an Abugida instead. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida)

On second thought, those seem much more elegant and advanced.
Something I think you are looking for in your Elves, nón?

But all you where really asking for where names, and here I am, bombarding you with linguistic suggestions wich ma well not be of any interest for you.

Lets see... names...

brb, looking something up.

>>3701661

Mary me? Ah... just ignore that.

But really. Seems like you´ll really need to be a total dick to your players to do those "fuckers" justice.

>>3701718
how is this a BAD plan?

>>3701734

It´s not.
Not at all.

Any player who does not apreciate being manipulated and dicked around really should go find another hobby.

>>3701754
so this got me to thinking; Did I fuck over my player?

In a panic, he asked the demon "Do you wanna take over for me?" His intent, I am sure as a human being, was" Can I have some help?" but as the GM, I heard it as the demon, who took advantage of how he worded it.

NOT "Can I have some help please?"
BUT"Would you like to take over?"

....I feel dirty ( ._.)

Any ideas for the major players in elf society?
For instance, say, Zeus is easy, he was the elf what discovered electricity way back when, making the lives of all elves better. Or Hermes, the fastest soul in the N ZONE.

C'mon people, help me build a League of Extraordinary Gentle-elves!

>>3703759
Vulcan (his Greek name is a pain in the ass to spell and I don't wanna look it up), the elf equivalent of... some mad scientist. I want to say Tesla, but Zeus already has electricity.

Also, if the Greek Gods are alien elves, what would Prometheus be?

>>3703759
Aphrodite is well known for her services to elven kind, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. She's also revolutionizing the field of weaponizing hormones and is developing a gay sex bomb.

>>3700423
I did. What's more, American Gods was only okay at best.

wut iz dis ?

>>3706237

Some of the best homebrew ever.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2948069/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2964603/

yay! pitiful self bumps!

>>3707254
my mind is constantly blown apart by the awesomeness of your posts dude!

Cool stuff. I don't have much to add.

Oh, except that Vulcan and Hephaestus are not actually the same god, the Romans just never really got a Hephaestus cult going, and adopted the crafting god of some other local culture (forgot which one).