The Crinoverse 2 (End of Part 2)

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

You know you never completely described what happened to the members of the Alterniteens. You talked about Changeling and Elite, and mentioned Whoop-Ant and Relentless, but aside from the first two I never found anything really about the rest.

[Crinos]

A good point, I'll definitely put that in an upcoming update.

[RomLoneWolf23]

If you'll accept a few more Thunder-themed characters from a couple of GURPS Supers books I have...

Electra: Christine Chalmers discovered her latent metahuman ability to manipulate electricity when she tried to break off with her then-lover, accidentally electrocuting him when he reacted violently. More surprised then horrified, she hid her powers and began exploring the full extent of her abilities, even as she was completing her studies in Law. She then began a double life as an Assistant District Attorney in her small town of Montpelier by day, and as superheroine Electric Girl by night.

This double life came to an end when a reporter began putting together the evidence of Christine's double-life, and confronted her with the information, just as she was preparing to run for District Attorney herself. She responded by pushing him off a building. Unfortunately for her, he'd left letters to be opened in case of his death. None contained information that could prove Christine was Electric Girl, but the damage to her reputation (and her refusal to undergo telepathic interrogation wasn't helping) caused her to lose the election.

Enraged against the U.S. political system for this defeat, she quit her job, moved to Los Dios and adopted a new identity as Electra, with a costume resembling a power suit to keep people from connecting her to Electric Girl. She's since gathered a team of supervillains known as the New Deadly Dozen (consisting only of 6 villains so far, but the name is intended to confuse investigators), which she leads.

She was one of the villains interested in stealing the name and power of Captain Thunder, and was only saved from the lethal draining of Zzzax by the timely intervention of her lover, the psionic Professor Possessor. She's currently hospitalized and recovering in the Deadly Dozen's hidden H.Q.

Scrambler: Joseph Lawrence grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where an aptitude for electronics got him a job working in a high-tech firm producing satellite components for NASA. Unfortunately, when his innate metahuman ability to generate a dampening field preventing electrical activity began manifesting themselves, strange incidents with power surges and failing electronics cost him his job, and nearly cost him his sanity, as he became convinced he was the victim of a strange conspiracy. It was finally when he was alone in his appartment that his powers finally kicked in at full strength, turning him into an electrical syphon.

At first he tried to suppress his power, but turning it off for more then a brief time became too tired, and he turned to drugs to give him the energy to shut the field off. As these problems made it impossible for him to get a new job in the electronics industry, Joe turned to crime, at first targeting the companies that had fired or refused to hire him. After stumbling upon and successfully raiding a hidden Foundry Installation, he realized he could become a true supervillain. He called himself Scrambler and made an armored costume out of a blue scuba suit with a white "S" pattern at belt, gloves, boots and mask.

His presence during the Battle of Zzzax was actually an accident, as he was robbing a nearby electronics firm when two of the electrical combatants crashed into the building. He somehow got involved in the scuffle, and discovered that he could drain the powers from electrical supers, and that in doing so he could turn off his dampening powers without effort. Scrambler is now convinced that if he can drain more power out of electrical supers, he can live normally again. And what better way to test this theory then with the world's most powerful electrical supers?

Voltmaster: The man currently known as Victor Scholmann was born in the first century B.C., and was then called Vercingetorix. While he was leading the scattered Gaul tribes against the Roman invaders, a desperate prayer to his storm god got him struck by lightning. After regaining consciousness, he discovered his hands crackled with lightning of their own, sign of divine favor. Unfortunately, he couldn't actually project lightning, and even if he could've, one man could not stop the march of the Roman Army.

As the years went on, he discovered the other side of his divine gifts: he did not grow old. Patiently, he visited all the sights the world offered him: Byzantium, Egypt, Rome, Athens, Persia... He quickly came across other immortals such as Daedalus and Taurus, and eventually gathered his own considerable wealth and resources, going from a pawn to a player in the shadowy world of ancient conspiracies, as well as mastering mathematics, sciences and medical arts, becoming an expert in countless scientific fields.

After living 2000 years, Victor (as he now called himself) had it all figured out. He'd made a fortune investing in the rifle market just before the American Civil War, and profited greatly from both world wars. He realized that it was during War that mankind thrived, and that Peace was stagnation. Yes, lives were lost in wars, but it was a fair price to pay for the incredible technological rewards.

He took on the villainous identity of Voltmaster, a gadgeteer supervillain working as a contractor for the Foundry, an expert in the creation of dangerous weapons for other villains, dictators, crimelords, terrorists and other such individuals. All the while, he's been gathering the resources to follow through with his own master plan: triggering a new Global War.

His machinations may have hit a wall following the Battle of Zzzax, however, as he was one of the beings badly affected by the entity's draining powers. He retained his immortality, but found his electrical powers were no longer working, and he has since gone into hiding, researching every avenue possible to try and reignite his electrical powers, or even enhancing them.

[Crinos]

Thanks for the input Rom, those guys were definitely present at the final battle.

Anyways, time for another entry, this time concerning some new blood in the Freedom league:

The Freedom League Reservists

Following the return of Captain Thunder and Raven's revelation of the existence of a secret Crime Union, it has been decided that the Freedom League would expand its membership by recruiting several reservist members.

Unlike full fledged members, The Reservists would only be called in if A) one of the core Freedom Leaguers were incapacitated for whatever reason, or B) The league was facing a threat far beyond their own ability to handle. This is not meant to be an insult to the abilities of the new Freedom Leaguers, but rather to prevent clutter among the Freedom League from too many members (Raven knows first hand how chaotic too many full time members can be from visits to The Legion of Super Heroes and Tiger Squad HQ's).

After an extensive vetting process, including dozens of potential super heroes, the Roster was narrowed down to five different heroes:

Rustlbelt: A Joker Ace from Minnesota, Wally "Rusty" Gunderson appears as a huge man made entirely of metal. Possessing the power to rust solid metal with his touch, he proved invaluable in saving Johnny Rocket's life when he was attacked by several of the Knights for a pure Mankind. Though many mistake Wally for being slow witted, he is actually a rather bright and thoughtful individual.

Frozone An old friend of The Incredibles, Lucius Best is a Metaman with the power to manipulate cold. A silver aged hero like Mr. Incredible, He too was forced into retirement by the Moore act, and came out of retirement during the Terminus Invasion. Now he has decided to join up with the Freedom League (if only to rub it in Mr. Incredible's face).

*Megan Conner (Note: This character was actually created by my good buddy Yeoman who used it in a game I used to run. This is for you buddy!)

Megan Conner spent her whole life feeling like she should have been doing more with her life, like she was destined for something great, but that greatness never came. As it turned out she had been selected to become "Magical Pretty Girl Healing Heart", a mystical protector of love and life throughout the multiverse. Unfortunately, the talking cat who was supposed to give her these powers got drunk and missed her on the day of their official meeting. Now Megan is a student at FCU, and a little ticked off that the magical cat was late giving her the magical powers (especially since, according to the cat, had she gotten the powers on time, she would have led the world into a new golden age of peace and prosperity). Although bitter and bad tempered, Megan is powerful, capable of focusing massive amounts of energy through her mystic healing heart scepter (This has caused some of the other freedom leaguers to jokingly call her "Sailor Beamspam").

USAgent: A mysterious figure of unknown origins, USagent is a former AEGIS operative who was empowered through an experimental new version of the DNascent process and garbed in the attire of Captain America, a Golden Age super soldier who fought alongside the likes of Antaeus and The Patriot. In truth, USagent IS Jack Simmons, the first Patriot, now set up to be the Freedom Leagues personal liason with AEGIS.

*The Cockroach: A former scientist at ASTRO Labs, Dale Guthrie was a bit of a kook who was convinced that humanity could only survive into the next millennium if they became more like the adaptable Cockroach. To prove his theory, he performed highly illegal experiments on himself, granting him superhuman strength, agility, the power to stick to walls, immunity to radiation and disease, the ability to eat anything, and a collapsible skeleton (which really, REALLY freaks people out) among other powers. Fired from ASTRO Labs, Dale got a job at the city dump and began using his newfound powers to fight crime. Brought to the Freedom Leagues attention by The Golden Marvel, Dale distinguished himself by helping clean out Nancy Gardener's mini fridge (Which had not been cleaned out since she left with her husband two years ago). Despite being a genius (and now a member of the John Smith Society after being introduced to them by Raven), Dale is a major slob who has developed a taste for rancid and spoiled food.

Okay, now tomorrow, as per requests, I do the Alterniteens.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

*Megan Conner (Note: This character was actually created by my good buddy Yeoman who used it in a game I used to run. This is for you buddy!)

Megan Conner spent her whole life feeling like she should have been doing more with her life, like she was destined for something great, but that greatness never came. As it turned out she had been selected to become "Magical Pretty Girl Healing Heart", a mystical protector of love and life throughout the multiverse. Unfortunately, the talking cat who was supposed to give her these powers got drunk and missed her on the day of their official meeting. Now Megan is a student at FCU, and a little ticked off that the magical cat was late giving her the magical powers (especially since, according to the cat, had she gotten the powers on time, she would have led the world into a new golden age of peace and prosperity). Although bitter and bad tempered, Megan is powerful, capable of focusing massive amounts of energy through her mystic healing heart scepter (This has caused some of the other freedom leaguers to jokingly call her "Sailor Beamspam").

"Come out with your hands up and you may only receive third degree burns!"

"Fine. I have been advised to not kill everyone in the building."

Actual quotes from the actual character.

[Crinos]

Spur of the moment, and because its a good lead way into the Alterniteens writeup later tonight AND because I haven't done one in a while, here's the first day in the life of the second generation.

A day in the life: Changeling

*Changeling begins her day by waking up her roommate Seven with a big hug. She then proceeds to get on the computer and spam all her friends twitter and facebook pages with hopes they have a warm and wonderful day.

*Next changeling heads to the school cafeteria and proceeds to eat enough sugary breakfast food to give a bull elephant diabetes. While doing so, he makes pleasant conversation with the rest of the kids of Next Gen and proceeds to keep inviting kids to sit with them until the table is dangerously overcrowded.

*Next its time for one of Changelings favorite pastimes: Checking her mail! Ooh, she's already been approved for a free credit card! How thoughtful of them! Changeling takes the mail back to her dorm and resolves to write the nice people at the credit card company a thank you letter for sending her such a nice gift.

* Class time! Today the class is having extradimensional studies class in Faerie, more specifically Wonderland. While there, Changeling gets into a croquette match with The Queen of Hearts, and ends up getting sent to be beheaded. Of course beheading does no real damage to Changeling, so afterward she recovers her head, thanks the Queen of Hearts for a fun time, and returns to the group. The Queen is understandably confused.

*During a study break Changeling decides to hang out in the mediation gardens and center herself. The tranquility is broken when several dozen Knights for a pure mankind swoop in and start wrecking the place. Changeling responds by transforming into a rust monster and destroying the armor of the attackers, driving them off. She then protects the now defenseless students from an understandably angry Dauntless and Relentless. She hands the knights over to Duncan Summers, who has already called AEGIS operatives to come pick up the troublemakers.

*Lunch time! Changeling decides to eat out for lunch, heading to the local Big Belly Burgers "Where we make a sandwich just for you!" Changeling actually heads into the back and gives the chef there a big hug to thank them for taking the time to make her meal for her.

*After lunch (and with time to spare before she has to get back for classes), Changeling decides to stop by the Goodman building and say hi to her good buddy Victoria Atom. The two shapeshifters decide to play their own rendition of "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" (Where you actually turn into the celebrity as you name them off), but are interrupted when the lab is invaded by The Collective. Changeling and the rest of the Atom Family band together to defeat the giant bug monster, and the fight is resolved when Changeling bribes the horde of Cockroaches to go away with some fruit pies.

*On the way back to Claremont, a spaceship shows up and abducts changeling!The ship belongs to the Tsavong, who believe that Changeling is a Grue double agent and wish to interrogate her. She talks, but she doesn't give the Tsavong any useful information. Eventually fed up with her babbling, they drop her off back at Claremont Academy.

*Next is advanced sciences class. Changeling ends up with Gimmick the Gadget Girl, and the pair synthesize a man eating blob from Changelings tissue. Hi-jinks ensue.

*After getting yelled at by Martha Dugan for imperiling the human race for the third time that week, Changeling heads for dinner. Unfortunately dinner is interrupted when The Crowns of Krimm invade the school hoping to get their hands on the mystical blood orchids which grow in the garden and are in bloom this week. During the fight Seven is critically injured, which angers Changeling. She proceeds to stick her arm right up Dark Seraph's and wrap it around his brain. Threatening to lobotomize the villain if he doesn't call off his team. Dark Seraph complies, and the Crowns fly off empty handed.

*Later that night Changeling is sitting in the garden looking up at the sky. This is Changelings officially sanctioned "Mopey time", where she reflects on heavy stuff like the loss of her homeworld, the enormous task ahead of her to save the Grue of this universe, and other things. She is joined by her boyfriend Elite, whose silence is a comfort to her. As the sun sets, the pair hold hands.

And that's Changelings day.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

*Changeling begins her day by waking up her roommate Seven with a big hug. She then proceeds to get on the computer and spam all her friends twitter and facebook pages with hopes they have a warm and wonderful day.

*Next its time for one of Changelings favorite pastimes: Checking her mail! Ooh, she's already been approved for a free credit card! How thoughtful of them! Changeling takes the mail back to her dorm and resolves to write the nice people at the credit card company a thank you letter for sending her such a nice gift.

Yet again Kennith Kane is able to get revenge on the world without working.

....and the fight is resolved when Changeling bribes the horde of Cockroaches to go away with some fruit pies.

I think this reaches the pinnacle of the funny that joke can produce.

[Nuclear Fridge]

Excellent work on integrating the GURPS SuperScum villains, RomLoneWolf! Your post makes me want to dig out my old copy & 'revive' Electra, Scrambler & co. for my current campaign...

[RomLoneWolf23]

Excellent work on integrating the GURPS SuperScum villains, RomLoneWolf! Your post makes me want to dig out my old copy & 'revive' Electra, Scrambler & co. for my current campaign...

Glad I could give you ideas!

I think Voltmaster really works well as a member of Daedalus' rogues gallery, as they have a lot in common, being both immortal technologists. But whereas Daedalus seeks to inspire responsible, peaceful use of technology, Voltmaster wants to spark conflicts for the improvement of sciences.

[Charles Phipps]

Dawwwww Changeling!

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

She needs to hug Angst—

Wait, take that back: that'd destroy the universe.

...............................Okay, now I need to have Omega use that plot.

[Crinos]

Alright, since you guys requested it:

The Alterniteens

The Alterniteens, as a team, haven't really been together as a team lately; even though they still do hang out together a lot, they don't do much in the way of fighting crime or going on adventures as a group anymore, mainly because they all have their own things now; Elite is partners with Bowman, Changeling is in Next Gen, and the rest of the Alterniteens have their own stuff going on as well, as will be described below:

(Note, I wont be covering Changeling, since I've already done her for the Next Gen entry, neither will I be doing Elite because I've already covered him with my entries for Bowman and Sure Shot).

Navigatrix: Doesn't really spend that much time at Claremont Academy, as she still spends a lot of time traveling to parallel worlds, looking for super powered kids in need of help. She has brought over 20 new students back to Claremont from such worlds, and will probably end up bringing many more. Since she still has a waiting period between jumps, and there's no guarantee that she wont run into trouble on whatever world she visits, she often brings a entourage of Claremont students with her for protection (with Duncan Summers permission of course). Since this pretty much guarantees a free week off from school and a big adventure, the students pretty much line up to participate.

Dauntless & Relentless: The pair of former metaman freedom fighters recently returned from an eight month tour on a parallel universe in an event known as "The Great Zack Walkabout", a massive outbreak of zombies on a parallel Earth Australia. Although the pair were gone for over eight months, it was only a few minutes of Crinoverse time. During that time, Relentless learned a few things about herself, including coming to terms with her own sexuality. One of the first things that Relentless did after returning from the Walkabout was to seek out Nereid and confess her feelings for her. Nereid told Relentless that she had picked up on the young metaman's feelings a long time ago, and that while she herself was bisexual (Atlanteans don't really have the sexual hang ups surface folks do), she wasn't really interested in Relentless that way, more interested in her teammate Magni. Relentless took this well, and resolved to just be good friends with Nereid.

As for Dauntless, he's still the same thick skulled, good natured lummox he always was, although he has recently begun to take in interest in metaman rights along with his sister. So much so that they're considering joining the Tomorrow Society when they graduate from Claremont Academy (When asked why they didn't just transfer to Mass castle and finish their education there, they responded that meant they'd have to take classes with that dork Ultimatum.)

Magni: The Thorson has actually managed to build himself a little surrogate family in the form of Ymir and Thunderhawk. Although Ymir represents everything the Aesir are supposed to hate, Magni finds it almost impossible to hate the guy (mainly because he reminds Magni so much of his father its uncanny). As for Thunderhawk, well she channels the power of a parallel version of her father, plus she is probably the coolest lady Magni has ever seen, sharing his deep seated love for smashing stuff. Magni's relationship with Ymir has brought him into conflict with the Aesir of this world, but Magni has already decided that he will do all he can to stop ragnarok from happening; despite what the legends says there is no honor in surrendering to fate, no honor in allowing a perfectly preventable Armageddon, and if it takes all of Magni's strength, he will find a way to help Ymir stop it.

In other news, Magni and Nereid are finally dating! This has caused some minor complications, such as creating minor tension between Magni and Relentless, (Not to mention all of Nereid's nosy relatives who keep butting in to the relationship, especially her obnoxious uncle Namor). Then again, Magni gets along with Aquaman, so at least he has his blessing. Magni is sure he can win the rest of the family over with time,

Whoop Ant: As mentioned before, Whoop Ant is dating Mega Gnat of the Sentinels of Society, but there has been some strain in the relationship as Whoop Ant has begun to suspect that Mega Gnat is only with him because he's the only kid on campus who she can... be with. And that if she had her choice she'd be with someone (anyone) else. To this end, Whoop Ant has seriously been trying to clean up his act (Ironically, Mega Gnat was with Whoop Ant for that reason initially, but she eventually fell in love with his goofy nature and kind heart.)

Another reason Whoop Ant is trying to reform his clownish ways is because of an encounter with the former heroine turned criminal Shrinker, although the pair were initially partners in crime for some major pranks, Whoop Ant eventually saw how vindictive and cruel Shrinker was, and that her pranks were going WAY too far. This kind of disturbed when he realized why Shrinker seemed so familiar to him; its because she was this realities version of her late mother.

Of course, as any Korean Martial artist will tell you, reforming evil can be tricky, so Whoop Ant still partakes in his fair share of mischief, usually spurred on by Dauntless or Victoria Atom. One of his most ambitious pranks involved gluing a rainbow wig onto Ultimatum's head.

Finally, Whoop Ant has recently discovered that he is a huge fan of the canadian Indie rock band The Sex Bomb ombs, (introduced to the music by Princess Projecta of the Legion of Super Heroes), and he actually traveled up North with Mega Gnat during Spring Break to meet with the bands lead guitarist Scott Pilgrim. During the trip the pair actually fought off a bunch of ninjas, as well as the murderous Wendigo, during which time Whoop Ant was totally bowled over by Scott's amazing powers. ("When you beat up dudes they turn into money? That is awesome!")

So yeah, that's the Alterniteens. Go over something else tomorrow.

[Kreuzritter]

reforing evil can be tricky?

I WROTE for that back in the day when i was grahf316. hell, i cut my fanfic teeth on that (and its slightly more dramatic cousin, forgot about jae)

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Although Ymir represents everything the Aesir are supposed to hate, Magni finds it almost impossible to hate the guy
...........
Magni gets along with Aquaman....

And thus Ymir and Brave and the Bold Aquaman meet.

Greatest. Adventure team. Ever.

[Crinos]

reforing evil can be tricky?

I WROTE for that back in the day when i was grahf316. hell, i cut my fanfic teeth on that (and its slightly more dramatic cousin, forgot about jae)

Heh, I was wondering if anyone would get the reference.

Thanks Kreuz, I now feel vindicated.