'You'll never escape now, Mountaineer!'

Subject: 'You'll never escape now, Mountaineer!'
Author: Larfen J. Stocke, esq.
Posted on: 2017-07-29 13:40:00 UTC

'Looks like you've become a bit of a Mountain-rear!' exclaimed Doctor Encaso, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee with one hand and wiping tears from his cheek with the other and murmuring to himself about how much of a good one that one was. His minions, as they always did whenever he had one of these little moments, shuffled awkwardly.

'How can you possibly oppose my invincible, my unstoppable plan?!' Doctor Encaso collapsed once more into tearful, back-bending laughter, and his minions all tried to look as unaffiliated with him as they possibly could while wearing big conspicuous uniforms with loud 'E's on their fronts.

'How, possibly, physically possibly, could you ever find a way to use your remarkable matter-phasing powers and ability to travel through any wall or material against me-' he sputtered and chuckled. 'If you're trapped inside of this globule of amber?!'

'How can your unique ability to escape any physical boundary possibly be used to oppose me, now that you are trapped there, behind that amber?!'

'How can my crimes ever go challenged, if your astounding wall-phasing talents are held, here, behind this all-encasing wall of amber all around you, oppressing you from all sides?!'

Doctor Encaso did not laugh after that one, because Mountaineer's fist promptly drove its way through his face with a horrendous thud, throwing his front teeth gorily to the sides and smacking him into the cracked pavement that he would groan and twitch on until he was eventually dragged off it to prison. His minions continued trying to look unaffiliated, even as they, too, were dragged off.

But this was not over, for Doctor Encaso. For even as his fellow prisoners glared over at him and readied their fists into balls, he had a greater, even more flawless plan for defeating Mountaineer:
Trapping him inside of a very large steel cage. And hiding the key.

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Round Super-Robin (game) by Huinesoron on 2017-07-26 14:16:00 UTC Reply

This is a fairly simple and creative game. Anyone can play; just reply to the previous post in the thread. Try to avoid branching chains, though!

Your post will contain three pieces: a superhero/villain name, a corny catchphrase for the hero the previous player named, and a short blurb for the hero the previous player gave a catchphrase to. It goes like this:

(0. You will put the name of your own hero/villain here.)

1. Name: American Aardvark
(You will add a catchphrase to American Aardvark.)

2. House (This would have been posted by the previous player.)
Catchphrase: "Never bet against the House."
(You will add a blurb to House)

3. The Narrator - "Are we sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin..."
Blurb: When the Narrator plants her staff in the ground and begins to read, the world around her changes. The story she reads takes shape, spreading in a growing circle from the base of her staff. Skyscrapers can become jungles; oceans can become caves; there is no limit to her transformative powers, nor - as long as she keeps reading - how far they can spread. Only when her staff is uprooted from its place will reality snap back.
(You will delete The Narrator from your post.)

If a completed hero/villain catches your fancy (as the Narrator here), feel free to reply to her blurb post with a creative work featuring her - a picture, a story, anything you want. You can even incorporate other completed characters from the thread! But don't try and shoehorn it into a full Round Super-Robin post - keep the stories etc separate from the character creation.

It is possible that there will be a picture of the heroes and villains of Round Super-Robin, once the thread winds down - so go ahead and make them as silly as you like!

Next player: add a new Name, add a Catchphrase to American Aardvark, add a Blurb to House, and delete The Narrator.

hS

Just a side-note, The Narrator would be a great superhero. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-26 22:07:00 UTC Reply

I mean, that's a cool power that doesn't get used very often, plus it appeals to literature geeks like us :D

-Twistey
Here's a Superpower Wiki page on that power: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Vocal_Narration
A question (not really part of the game) by Novastorme on 2017-07-26 18:21:00 UTC Reply

Can I use superhero names from my writings in this (without giving anyone any details about them)?

Of course. by Huinesoron on 2017-07-26 19:31:00 UTC Reply

But don't expect people to attach the same meanings to them as you do! ^_~

hS

That's what makes it more fun! (nm) by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-26 22:20:00 UTC Reply

I'll give it a go by Phobos on 2017-07-26 15:31:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: The Reference
  
  2. Name: American Aardvark
  Catchphrase: "Prepare for a tongue-lashing!"
  
  3. Name: House
  Catchphrase: "Never bet against the House."
  Blurb: When mild-mannered construction worker Justin Davies was in a terrible accident, his coworkers took it upon themselves to rebuild him. With a skin of sturdy brick, bones like steel support-beams, and some rather fashionable gables, he's a real powerhouse in the fight against crime.
  
  -Phobos

Let's have another one. by Novastorme on 2017-07-26 18:18:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: The Brass Hawk
  
  2. Name: The Reference
  Catchphrase: "Here's a little something you may have missed."
  
  3. Name: American Aardvark
  Catchphrase: "Prepare for a tongue-lashing!"
  Blurb: By day a quiet zoologist, by night an awesome mix of Man and Aardvark. Frank Goodson is dedicated to wiping out organized crime in America. With a long and quick tongue (in both meanings of the word) those who do not back down without a fight cannot hope to win one against: The one, the only, the American Aardvark!

My turn! by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-26 22:19:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: The Thought Police
  
  2. Name: The Brass Hawk
  Catchphrase: "You're just a cog in the machine."
  
  3. Name: The Reference
  Catchphrase: "Here's a little something you may have missed."
  Blurb: Inner-city girl Mary Swiftin's heart was broken when her public library had to close due to bankruptcy, where she had learned everything she knew, being too poor to go to school. She began researching weapons and technology, and now in her womanhood, she works as a self-made superhero, a protector of facts and evidence and a foe to those who conceal the truth. Oppressive governments everywhere fear the name of The Reference!
  
  Wow... I'm kind of impressed with myself there. I did not expect that to happen. *pats self on back*
  
  -Twistey

Art: The Reference. by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 15:23:00 UTC Reply

You'd be amazed how much information she can access through her wristband computer. And her phone, obviously - this is the 21st century, after all!

hS

This one isn't working either. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 17:11:00 UTC Reply

But I reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally want to see it! Please send a link asap! :D

-Twistey

Sure. by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 17:44:00 UTC Reply

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/2pnyr6t

Your computer seems to be having a problem with Imgur. Or possibly just with me.

hS

Aha. My web blocker blocks Imgur is the problem. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 18:25:00 UTC Reply

My computer can be so annoying sometimes. T_T

-Twistey

Let's see how this goes... by Alleb on 2017-07-27 01:16:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: Graft
  
  2. Name: The Thought Police
  Catchphrase: "Not even the mind is safe."
  
  3. Name: The Brass Hawk
  Catchphrase: "You're just a cog in the machine."
  Blurb: Douglas was always good at getting people to do what he wanted. His parents always believed him over his brothers, his teachers let him get away with minor (and not so minor) offences, and people always listened to him. One look at his big, brown eyes, and they never doubted a word he said.
  
  It was only when he was twenty-one and short on cash that he thought he might be able to get away with robbery.
  
  Thus, Douglas disappeared, and the Brass Hawk was born; a super villain who mesmerizes people with his eyes. The head of a vast criminal organization, he regularly faces down villains and heroes alike, turning them into his own agents--the small moving bits of his vast mechanism. Pieces on his board. Cogs in his machine.
  
  (Hey, this is fun! Great game, hS!)
  
  -Alleb

This looks fun! by To The Scapemobile! on 2017-07-27 14:09:00 UTC Reply

1: Name: The Starlight Sentinel

2: Name: Graft
Catchphrase: "You won't get anywhere without hard work..."

3: Name: The Thought Police
Catchphrase: "Not even the mind is safe."
Blurb: Aleister Charles Magnusson: small-time science fiction author, somewhat larger-time interdimensional protector. The Earth we know is but a fraction of the true whole, and beings of terrible power and inscrutable purpose seek to take what is the rightful property of mankind: our minds, our personalities, our very souls. Ali's ability to draw upon the power of multiple planar versions of himself are almost unique in the annals of history, and now he fights alongside a ragtag bunch of misfits to protect mankind from infohazards, deadly cults, and beings from beyond the limits of imagination. Not even your mind is safe.

Welcome to the Thought Police.

Thought Police blurb by Phobos on 2017-07-27 14:51:00 UTC Reply

Just wanted to say, I would read the hell out of that. Very cool.

-Phobos
And back to me. by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 14:44:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: Immaculate
  
  2. Name: The Starlight Sentinel
  Catchphrase: "May the Zodiacal Light shine upon me!"
  
  3. Name: Graft
  Catchphrase: "You won't get anywhere without hard work..."
  Blurb: Olive Lin is the very definition of a self-made woman. After the tragic accident in which she lost both her legs and her wife, she turned her engineering skill to building the most advanced prosthetics imaginable. And once she'd started, she saw no reason to stop... With over 70% of her body replaced by machines, Graft is able to leap small mountains in a single rocket-propelled bound. She has devoted her life to helping those who can't help themselves - but has very little patience for those who could help themselves, but choose not to.
  
  hS

Guess I'll give this a try? by Iximaz on 2017-07-27 14:55:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: Warhead
  
  2. Name: Immaculate
  Catchphrase: "All I ask for is total perfection."
  
  3: Name: The Starlight Sentinel
  Catchphrase: "May the Zodiacal Light shine upon me!"
  Blurb: The Starlight Sentinel is a being of pure light, a cosmonaut thousands of years old. Awakened from their slumber at the heart of a supernova, the Starlight Sentinel now traverses the galaxy as an overseer, a guardian, and sometimes a vengeful god. Now, they have come to Earth and have been content with watching over the tiny humans that call the planet home, but it won't be long before they leave for the far reaches of the universe once more.

I'll have another go by Phobos on 2017-07-27 15:34:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: Pack Rat
  
  2. Name: Warhead
  Catchphrase: "Stand back and watch this!"
  
  3. Name: Immaculate
  Catchphrase: "All I ask for is total perfection."
  Blurb: Former jewel-thief and current super jewel-thief, Crystal Permata demands the best that money can't buy. And with her ability to see the flaws in anything, whether jewel, plan, or 24-inch solid steel vault door, she knows how to get it. Just do as she says, and don't ask her how she got that sapphire in her forehead.
  
  -Phobos

Art: Immaculate-Pack Rat-Narrator teamup! by Huinesoron on 2017-07-28 15:19:00 UTC Reply

(Link)

I figure the Narrator is one of those mercenary types who keep changing their allegiance when it's convenient. On this particular outing, she's hanging with the villains.

hS

I had a go! ... with a dollmaker. by Scapegrace on 2017-07-29 10:11:00 UTC Reply

I cannot art.

Anyway, have Immaculate and Packrat in what I think might be their respective costumes:

Alas, "long rat tail" was not an available option in the site I used, so you'll just have to imagine PR's. Also, you might be wondering why her costume looks the way it does; the key theme I took from Mir's description of her was "tacky", so, y'know, tacky is whatcha got. =]

Me too! by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 17:43:00 UTC Reply
1. Name: Mountaineer (former name of one of my characters. See what you guys can come up with!)
  
  2. Name: Pack Rat
  Catchphrase: "What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine!"
  
  3. Name: Warhead
  Catchphrase: "Stand back and watch this!"
  Blurb: Joseph "Joe" Miller showed true devotion to his workplace at a nuclear power plant when it had a meltdown... and some serious stubbornness. Given nuclear powers by the radiation, he currently functions as a super-anti-hero, with particularly brash and destructive methods of defeating villains. A controversial figure indeed, but we must admit that he is a hero.
  
  (hS, is it okay if I introduce this game to my friends? I'll give you credit, or give credit to whoever came up with it if you found it somewhere else. Did you find it or did you create it?n I can't remember.)
  -Twistey

Art: Warhead by RemnantShadow on 2017-07-28 18:29:00 UTC Reply

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byba3agSZv_4OUtRaWpEY2ZQNkU/view?usp=drivesdk

I suck at writing captions so I will leave it to you guys to do it. In case anyone wonders the fireball thing is a miniature star.

You is good at anime art OwO by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-31 21:48:00 UTC Reply

A lot better than me! (Of course, I kind of stopped trying in favor of developing my own style. But never mind that.)

-Twistey
Quick question by RemnantShadow on 2017-07-28 18:44:00 UTC Reply

How do you embed a picture here? I tried to but the image doesn't show up on the preview.

Ok I think I figured it out. by RemnantShadow on 2017-07-29 13:02:00 UTC Reply

Bear with me if this fails spectacularly.

Ok finally I got it. by RemnantShadow on 2017-07-29 13:52:00 UTC Reply

Apparently it won't work on my tablet, which is why my previous post has a broken image.

Anyways, here is the imgur version for those of you who don't like google drive.

Let's see if I've understood this properly... by Zingenmir on 2017-07-27 20:01:00 UTC Reply

Let me know if I haven't, and I'll tweak my post.

1. Name: Universitonne

2. Name: Mountaineer
Catchphrase: "Gotta go in by the door, they told me! Ha!"

3. Name: Pack Rat
Catchphrase: "What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine!"

Sophia Antonia Cartler always liked pretty things. It was just that her definition of what was pretty was a bit different from most people's. Her morals fell even farther outside the norm, and she gained a reputation as a weird, mysterious thief who didn't even consistently take valuable items.

She was furious when she gained superpowers from an attack on the movie theater she was in, and then delighted once she'd realized that, despite the very random tail she'd grown, she now had the ability to walk through walls. Well, and summon cheese at will, but that was a lot less useful to a lactose intolerant person. Until the time she first used the cheese as projectiles, that is.

So Sophia continued her stealing, more frequently than before she'd left her job, and she was happy. She'd put on her same mask, let the tail out (what? It unnerved people), and gone straight for Tiffany's. Her next few sprees were also expensive, to the point where a local newspaper nicknamed her "the Magpie." Had she continued that trend just a little longer the name might have stuck, but as fate would have it she went next for a series of commonly low-value items. These were so varied and so frequently useless that when a difference paper jeered, "more like a *pack rat*," that was the name that ultimately stuck.

Everyone ignored her protests that it was undignified, prejudiced, had connotations of dirtiness, etc. After the first time it led to her capture, Sophia vowed revenge and resolved to be more careful when trying to get the moniker changed. She remains unsuccessful in both respects.

Oooh, dass nice. by Scapegrace on 2017-07-27 23:36:00 UTC Reply

1: Name: Carbide (don't look at me like that, you knew a Robot Wars reference was coming sooner or later)

2: Name: Universitonne
Catchphrase: "By the Ashen Moles of Bodley!"

3: Name: Mountaineer
Catchphrase: "Gotta go in by the door, they told me! Ha!"
Blurb: When you're a big, tough anti-hero, you don't play by the rules. You're loud, you're brash, you've got awesome powers, and collateral damage is a problem for tomorrow and/or somebody else. That's as true for Gamma Man as it is for anyone else in his position. This is not his story.

When you're a scientist who people have the temerity to call mad just because you've won the Nobel Prize for Wave-Motion Brain Annihilation three years on the bounce, you don't play by the rules either. What you want is what you get, what you get is what you can grab, and what you can grab generally blasts a whole bunch of interesting exotic particles out the business end whether it's supposed to or not. That's as true for Doctor Cranitron as it is for other people who got laughed at in the Academy. This is not his story.

When heroes and villains fight, people get caught up in it: bystanders, photographers, hostages, it's a fact of life. So it was when Doctor Cranitron took the SupraCorp tower in downtown Metro City hostage, Gamma Man, that fair metropolis's edgiest hero, took it upon himself (to the quiet despair of the local constabulary) to rescue the hostages and deal with the Doctor once and for all. They fought, the building collapsed, but Gamma Man got everyone out, just about. The Doctor? Well, he was a smear on the ground, but villains come back from a lot worse all the time. Pavement pizza is just another Tuesday.

But what about Eduardo Cabrera, the undocumented Honduran immigrant cleaning the windows on the twenty-seventh floor, where so much of the fighting had taken place? What happened when his body was suffused with every example of Raygun Science (Mad) know to man? What happened as he awoke the next day, phased halfway through the rubble of the collapsed building and suspended thirty feet off the ground? This is the Mountaineer's story.

This is his story.

Let's find out.

Let's get back to the game already ;P by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-31 21:59:00 UTC Reply

Most of the thread has become art, haha!

1. Name: Role Reverse

2: Name: Carbide
Catchphrase: "Nothing is tougher, yet nothing more advanced."

3. Name: Universitonne
Catchphrase: "By the Ashen Moles of Bodley!"
Blurb: In her own time, Annelise Grimmer fought tooth and nail for women to be allowed in colleges. By night she would work on secret breakthrough discoveries, which is how she accidentally slowed the effects of time on her down. Which is how she is still alive during the 21st century. As Universitonne, Grimmer is less of a superhero and more of just a mentor for heroes such as The Reference, since she was already getting on in years when the accident happened. She provides them with the information and encouragement they need to be successful on their missions.

-Twistey
This is a lot different than what I expected! Haha! by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-28 17:56:00 UTC Reply

I'd give you a bio of my character formerly known as Mountaineer (at least, a bio of her original incarnation, and not the about-to-be-current one as PPC agent Amber Callahan), but the URL for her page involves my school district, so I'll copy and paste it into a reply if anyone's interested.

I really like what you did with the blurb, especially since it brings more realism to the superhero genre. Bystanders get caught up in stuff all the time, it's a fact of life and of war. Great job!

-Twistey
Mountaineer comics nao plz. {= D (nm) by Neshomeh on 2017-07-28 03:39:00 UTC Reply

Mountaineer/Pack Rat OTP by Huinesoron on 2017-07-28 11:24:00 UTC Reply

(Link)

They've got one of those forbidden hero/villain romances going on.

hS

There was an attempt! by Scapegrace on 2017-07-29 12:44:00 UTC Reply

there was an attempt.

'You'll never escape now, Mountaineer!' by Larfen J. Stocke, esq. on 2017-07-29 13:40:00 UTC Reply

'Looks like you've become a bit of a Mountain-rear!' exclaimed Doctor Encaso, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee with one hand and wiping tears from his cheek with the other and murmuring to himself about how much of a good one that one was. His minions, as they always did whenever he had one of these little moments, shuffled awkwardly.

'How can you possibly oppose my invincible, my unstoppable plan?!' Doctor Encaso collapsed once more into tearful, back-bending laughter, and his minions all tried to look as unaffiliated with him as they possibly could while wearing big conspicuous uniforms with loud 'E's on their fronts.

'How, possibly, physically possibly, could you ever find a way to use your remarkable matter-phasing powers and ability to travel through any wall or material against me-' he sputtered and chuckled. 'If you're trapped inside of this globule of amber?!'

'How can your unique ability to escape any physical boundary possibly be used to oppose me, now that you are trapped there, behind that amber?!'

'How can my crimes ever go challenged, if your astounding wall-phasing talents are held, here, behind this all-encasing wall of amber all around you, oppressing you from all sides?!'

Doctor Encaso did not laugh after that one, because Mountaineer's fist promptly drove its way through his face with a horrendous thud, throwing his front teeth gorily to the sides and smacking him into the cracked pavement that he would groan and twitch on until he was eventually dragged off it to prison. His minions continued trying to look unaffiliated, even as they, too, were dragged off.

But this was not over, for Doctor Encaso. For even as his fellow prisoners glared over at him and readied their fists into balls, he had a greater, even more flawless plan for defeating Mountaineer:
Trapping him inside of a very large steel cage. And hiding the key.

Bahahaha, his next plan! by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-31 21:55:00 UTC Reply

We seriously need to start writing comics in a superhero 'verse. All these ideas are too good to go to waste.

-Twistey

My web blocker still blocks Imgur. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-28 17:58:00 UTC Reply

Perhaps you could put this in a G-doc like you did with the LotR-Justice League crossover? That worked for me. I just really really really want to see it! Argh! 8D

-Twistey

I guess? by Huinesoron on 2017-07-28 20:35:00 UTC Reply

Here.

hS

Sweet mother of Spock!! by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-31 21:46:00 UTC Reply

Holy crud, that was cool! The Reference in particular was almost exactly as I imagined her (hooray, I'm getting better at imagining characters as being non-white), and all of the character designs were quite well-done. Thanks for the link, hS!

-Twistey

The Pack Rat description is funny. (nm) by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 20:12:00 UTC Reply

((Sure.)) by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 18:07:00 UTC Reply

So far as I know, the idea is original to me, though it's a fairly simple expansion of the Round Robin concept - or that old thing where you draw the top part of a picture, fold it over, and pass it on to the next person to draw the middle. But I didn't borrow it from anywhere. And I don't mind you sharing it around.

hS

((Yeeeee!)) by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 18:24:00 UTC Reply

I've got so many writer friends who would love this game! Thanks!

-Twistey

Art: The Brass Hawk by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 10:21:00 UTC Reply

Mesmeric criminal overlord with a steampunk falcon theme? Yep, I'll take that!

hS

Picture doesn't work. by twistedwindowpane on 2017-07-27 17:10:00 UTC Reply

But I'm glad somebody caught what I was going for! Steampunk is indeed what I intended with the catchphrase. :D

-Twistey

Here. by Huinesoron on 2017-07-27 17:45:00 UTC Reply

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/xcbfLgZ

hS

That looks awesome! by Alleb on 2017-07-27 12:56:00 UTC Reply

I love all the little details in the cog and the coat, and the way it's broken on the side. Also the mask is perfect. This is so cool! :D Love the last name, as well.

-Alleb