Re: [HoE] [HOPLER] The Phil. Kid *some possible spoilers*

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

>In a message dated 6/29/99 5:43:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>crow_steve@hotmail.com writes:
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><< Again, while rereading the Children of the Atom book (always a dangerous
>  past time), we noticed something...
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>  *SPOILER SPACE*
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[various clippage}

>As far as the jumping goes, perhaps he rolled really well, or maybe Mad 
>jack
>just exaggerated a little bit. As to his powers, no one knows Blue Note is 
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>Doomsayer. The story implies that it's actually Blue Note who does a lot of
>the killing, then he passes it off as the Kid's work in his stories. As far
>as Joan knows, the Kid's the one throwing Nukes around.
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Well, this raises a couple of questions.  Given that he did roll pretty well 
(what is "jumping" based on?  The Kid's stats that seem appropriate are 
average at best), what's the point of jumping in combat?  It's a cool kind 
of thing to characters to do, but it's a bit difficult to suggest it to 
players when A) there is no skill or clear attribute that lets you do it, 
and B) there's no real advantage to doing it.

I'm not sure the story implies that Blue Note does the storytellin', since 
Mad Jack doesn't mention it while telling his story.  But...Blue Note 
doesn't _have_ Tale-Tellin'.  So there aren't any of "his stories" to pass 
off.  But assuming us Marshals fill in that gap and move right along...

As far as the story-spreading itself, one wonders why Blue Note even needs 
to be a heavy-duty rad-type, if he's counting on his stories to convince 
people and he's the one using the added-on Tale-telling.  "Yeah, the Kid 
wasted 'em with a half dozen MIRVs.  Bodies?  Eh, we dumped them down a 
canyon - didn't want them polluting up the countryside.."

Okay, so he's apparently got the powers to convince other storytellers, and 
witnesses, that the Kid has Rad-Powers.  Fair enough.  That raises the 
question our group's Doomsayer has had for a while anyway.

How stealthy _are_ Doomsayer powers?  I mean, Blue Note is using some heavy 
duty stuff like Atomic Blast and Nuke(!!).  But he's apparently using these 
in such a way that (at worst) observers can't tell where the power 
originates.

Now, the relevant pictures in CotA show folks using powers like these with 
big glowing balls of energy shooting from their hands and stuff.  It sure 
looks like A) these kind of rad powers are pretty obvious in use, and B) 
it's pretty obvious where they're coming from.

Needless to say, enterprising PC Doomsayers want to know.  Blue Note doesn't 
seem to have anything to support such sneakiness, so the mechanic here (if 
any) isn't very clear.

All help appreciated.


>John Hopler
>Pinnacle
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