Posts in category Actual Plays
Zero Wing Part 3: War in Space
Engaging Secundus, Michael was struck, literally and figuratively, as for the first time he could not land a blow. As he tried to attack, Secundus seemed to disappear, reappearing behind Michael blasting the hero with cosmic force. (… and this is where the DBZ jokes started.)
Mechanically, Secundus is a trained fighter with a defensive [...]
Zero Wing Part 2: The Gathering Storm
Seeing the bombs detonate in space, the squad of twenty four strike fighters, move into attack formations lead by their champion, a genetically enhanced super solider, Secundus. Generating a natural warp field Secundus manipulates and controls space around themselves.
This is probably the largest scale scenario we’re run in Metahumans R [...]
Zero Wing Part 1: Space Savings
Reunited, the crew began assessing the damage to the various ships along with Menoth’s men. Quinn finally near completion of her nano-swarm killer just needed to iron out some kinks to work out, like repairing organic damage to the host body. Once completed, she administered the serum to each of the three meat popsicles with the help o [...]
Zero Wing: Prelude
Before beginning Zero Wing, there are some key events in the first two story arcs that add context to how the heroes ended up where they are. Here is a brief summary of each.
A New World
While searching for a suitable planet, the colonists come to a world capable of supporting human life. As they perform sensor sweeps of the planet a m [...]
Zero Wing: Setting & Character
Currently the Metahumans Rising play test group is running a High Powered Campaign. As High Powered heroes they are roughly on par many of the Avengers, or the DCAU’s take on the Justice League. The play test is using a kind of Metahunans Rising elseworld, using the core setting, but 20 years after the fall of earth. Earth having been [...]
Crossover Episode 2: Missing Friends
We pick up with the Temporally Displaced as they put together the pieces in the aftermath of the attack on New York and try to find a cure for the suspended Captain Kaiju.
The Characters
Crustacean-Rex (Julian) – A strange hybrid of human and what may be crab genes washes up on the outskirts of New York. Who is he and why has he come? [...]
Crossover Episode 1: Return to SICAD
Picking up after Dr. Lifespark’s attack on New York we return to the SICAD base as the team tries to dissect the Spider Tank and uncover it’s secrets.
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The Characters
Dr. Candice Caine AKA Thrasher (Archie) – A reverse engineer with SICAD Candice utilizes an experimental bio-technological power armor that [...]
Out of Time Episode 7: No Time For Re...
Infuriated by his defeat Life Spark released his ultimate creation. Unfortunately, our heroes are still reeling from the assault on Black Mountain. Halfway across the country and with Flux still unconscious the team will have to think quickly if they are save New York. Due to technical difficulties we lose Krista about half way through thi [...]