This is a swashbuckling superhero comedy scfi adventure.

Inspiration: The Tick, Megaton Man, Any other superhero parody

In this world:

  • Superheroes are ridiculous buffoons with quirky powers (Cactus Man, Ice Cream Sundae Avenger, Papercut Pete)

  • Villains are equally as silly and generally pathetic (Taking over the local Sears, turning everyone into teddy bears, writing their name on the moon)

  • Whenever a hero or villian does something they succeed, it’s not exactly how they intend it to succeed (Papercute Pete tries giving a henchman a papercut to drop their weapon, but the henchman instead becomes a blubbering mess because he can’t stand even the smallest amount of blood)

  • The world is incredibly fragile, buildings topple when barely impacted, cars crumple at the slightest touch, things break in spectacular fashion, natural and man-made disasters occur frequently and with devastating force.

You are a team of stupid superheroes seeking to stop The Big Squeeker from turning the city into squeaky pet toys. Already many citizens and the local police have been turned into various squeaky toys, squeaking incessantly, driving everyone batty.

Right now, the team is fighting a giant squeaky robot that is knocking over buildings and causing havoc downtown.

If you can defeat the robot it will reveal the location of the squeaky ray which is transforming the citizens into squeaky toys.

Character Creation:

  • What weird power do you have that nobody else can do?
  • What is your biggest fear?
  • What crippling flaw do you have?
  • What do people call you?
  • What do you look like?

To accomplish an action:

Roll the dice and tell me a reason why you succeed, for each acceptable reason I’ll add one to your result. If you can come up with 3 or more acceptable reasons, you succeed automatically. Otherwise, roll a D6 and add 1 for each acceptable reason.

  • 6 or more: You succeed cleanly.
  • 5: You succeed at a steep cost.
  • 4 or less: You fail and things go badly for you.

Failure: Each failed roll you’ll take a condition. Each condition weakens future rolls by one.

To Roll: Use the free dice roller by /u/starlord@lemm.ee linked here: https://tinyurl.com/everypostroll

Be sure to add your character’s name and the action they are taking in the roll dialogue. Then copy the link generated to your post. For each roll copy the roll of the person who last rolled, so we can keep our rolls in the same history together.

  • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Automatic success for three acceptable actions

    The warmth of the electric current pulsates and circulates within you, your hair becomes frazzled and then blooms into a giant frizz-ball. The current pushes off of the car and slings you upwards onto the robot’s thigh, the static generated makes you cling to it like an obsessive ex to their first girlfriend. The robot takes a few squeaky steps with you on it’s thigh and then noticing you, begins to hop up and down on one leg attempting to brush you off with his other foot. As this is happening you’re becoming sicker and sicker due to your horrible reaction to the static charge, and to the growing nausea you feel from the queasiness of being jostled by the giant squeaky leg. You begin to projectile vomit uncontrollably onto the street below, covering cars and fleeing pedestrians with chunks of your last meal. Some of the nearby pigeons that haven’t keyed on the overturned food carts flap down to your puke and begin furiously pecking at it, the disgusting display provoking you to vomit even more. The roadway becomes slick with your constant hurling and as the robot tries to prey you off with his foot it begins to lose it’s balance and starts to slip, careening wildly towards a nearby building and slamming into it with a loud SQUEAK. The enormous body of the robot shatters windows and rains brick down to the street from the side of the building. All the while you ride the robot’s thigh like a mouse in a tornado.

    The robot continues to lumber forward, madly trying to shake the unwanted passenger off of it’s leg. Overturning cars and smashing into a nearby fire-hydrant, causing water to gush upwards in a torrent.

    What do you do?!