RE: [BNW] Suicide Squad (was Bomber, cool or stupid?)

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

> >Actually, Mr. 104 bought it too.  Darn, what a shame.  ;)
>
>Hm, I though I saw him later in something else. Oh, well.
>

Well, this is DC - Alan Moore or Grant Morrison or someone could have very 
well brought him back somehow.  But in the issue in question, he was pretty 
conclusively blown apart by Armorgeddon Pi...ummm, I mean, Rocket Red 
Brigade guys.

> > Rick Flagg was
> >the Squad leader (until he himself bought it blowing up an enemy base 
>with
>a
> >nuclear bomb).
>
>Ya, that was the mission where slipknot ran off and lost his hand (the
>explosive bracelet he wore) Plastique was on that mission too. (I think she
>managed to escape while on that mission as well only with all her body
>parts).
>

Sure you don't want a copy of my Belle Reeve Sourcebook?  :)  Nope, the 
mission where Slipknot lost his hand was against the Manhunters in the 
Louisiana swamps (there was a bomb detonated there, but it was Flagg's old 
girlfriend who died doing so that time).  Plastique, as best I recollect, 
was only on the team's first mission against the Jyhad (another cool group 
that, depowered, would be suitable for the BNW Universe - see below).  She 
betrayed them, but was captured, taken out, and was later brainwashed into 
forgetting the Squad's existence.

Flagg later went on a solo mission against the Jyhad with a nuclear bomb or 
somesuch, and blew up their base in Qurac.  That's when he died.

> > It doesn't really strike me as off-topic, since that issue
> >(and Suicide Squad in general) strikes me as kind of the 
>international-type
>
> >missions one suspects Primers go on (like, to Isla Delta) when they're 
>not
> >beating up on American non-registered Deltas.  The kind of thing that, 
>say,
>
> >Patriot used to do.
>
>True could be a follow up or turning point in a game. Have the players be
>Defiants for awhile then latter when they get caught, make a "Suicide
>Squad". (Basically Delta Squad only with the really low survival rate
>missions, you could also use this to go around the world more while still
>keeping the messed up US as the center piece.
>

Well, it gives a Guide something to do if his player characters _do_ get 
captured by Delta Primer due to unavoidable bad luck, stupidity or whatever. 
  I suspect such an offer wouldn't be made to hardcore Defiant types, but if 
your player-character group is more of a freelance type, it could be an 
option.

> >In fact, I think in Ravaged Planet it mentions somewhere that there are
> >rumors of Alphas that are let out of prison in return for government
>service
> >on special missions and a pardon.  Which is what reminded me of the whole
> >Suicide Squad thing in the first place.
> >---
> >Steve Crow
>
>Heh, most things remind me of the Suicide Squad, they did it all. The Squad
>was kinda like a alternate for Arkarm (sp). "Oh, this guy got beat by the
>Batman, and he's not insane just mean, we have a place for you. Allow me to
>introduce you to Amanda Waller." She even won a stare down with Batman,
>Boomer (Boomerang, the villain) was terrified of her and she had no powers
>(or gimmick weapons etc...).

Actually, I think they've established Blackgate as such a place for 
non-insane types.  Belle Reeve was reserved for types who had superpowers 
that required special containment facilities (or villains that the Squad 
needed for a mission who they had the government transfer to).

Which again suggests something that might be a good idea for the BNW 
universe (and to keep us on topic here).  All the prisons seems to use the 
power-dampening thing.  But certainly, not every Gunner, Hacker, Charmer, 
Sneak, Bouncer, and Genius that gets captured requires that kind of security 
to be kept imprisoned.  How about a BNW prison where such types are kept 
that isn't as "high-powered" as New Alcatraz and stuff?

---

Steve Crow

"Worm Can Opener Extraordinare"

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