Dust off and nuke the site from orbit?
May. 24th, 2003 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight was Murdock's BESM game. This time we accomplished things, although not anything really *useful*.
Umbra, using his 'I can do literally anything better than anyone who was foolish to buy a power other than generic do anything magic, thanks to the GM's Misinterpretation of the rules' power, figured out how to follow the enemy into the land of the dead, although the enemy was gone.
But they had a lead -- the dig site, which was near where the flash of detection had shown the rest of the crystal as being at -- so after securing the last piece as well as they could they flew down to Mexico to try to steal back the bits the enemy had already claimed.
Umbra turned them invisible and intangible, and they examined the enemy camp with impunity. The main badasses were all in a drug-induced trance, but the peons didn't happen to be talking about anything useful. The crystal -- which turned out to be a massive lens 10 feet across -- was in plain view, although none of the party spotted it until Umbra started detecting magic.
It was locked down, and even after giving himself massive strength Umbra couldn't move it, so Umbra made up a ridiculously powerful magic attack and blew up the bracket the lens was mounted in with enough damage to destroy three planets. The explosion alerted the village, but they were too far away to stop the lens from plummetting off the side of the cliff it turned out to have been mounted on top of and shattering into marble-sized pieces, scattered all over the valley.
Since not even Umbra would have a chance of stealing each individual piece now (he *did* have to pay energy for each spell, and could only target one thing at a time with intangibility) he dragged the rest of the party with him to Mexico City for lunch, and insisted they come up with some plan to get the crystal.
Nathaniel and Saul shrugged. If Umbra couldn't get it, their powers would be useless. Nathaniel suggested they convince the police that the enemy were draft dodgers and diamond smugglers and get them to round them up and collect the pieces of crystal, since stealing the crystal from the cops would be trivial. Who do you call for that, though?
So they called the home office, which put them in touch with the local office, which told them that the cops were useless -- they needed an army. "Who'd be the best person to mind-control to get this to happen?" Umbra asked. "Vincente Fox" was the reply.
After confirming with the home office that there were no rules against using mind control on heads of state, Umbra went and did that. Soon, Mexico's army was mobilizing against the were-thingies.
last week next week
Note to GM -- and yes, I've pointed this out to the GM (his response: 'whatever') -- the 'do anything' magical power does NOT give you level 3 in any other power at level 3. Level three is 'short duration, moderate powered effects'. Which is still totally twinky, but not as twinky as Umbra being LITERALLY BETTER AT LITERALLY EVERYTHING THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN THE PARTY.
Even ignoring that, though, whoever wrote BESM was on crack. It's the worst system I've ever played.
Umbra, using his 'I can do literally anything better than anyone who was foolish to buy a power other than generic do anything magic, thanks to the GM's Misinterpretation of the rules' power, figured out how to follow the enemy into the land of the dead, although the enemy was gone.
But they had a lead -- the dig site, which was near where the flash of detection had shown the rest of the crystal as being at -- so after securing the last piece as well as they could they flew down to Mexico to try to steal back the bits the enemy had already claimed.
Umbra turned them invisible and intangible, and they examined the enemy camp with impunity. The main badasses were all in a drug-induced trance, but the peons didn't happen to be talking about anything useful. The crystal -- which turned out to be a massive lens 10 feet across -- was in plain view, although none of the party spotted it until Umbra started detecting magic.
It was locked down, and even after giving himself massive strength Umbra couldn't move it, so Umbra made up a ridiculously powerful magic attack and blew up the bracket the lens was mounted in with enough damage to destroy three planets. The explosion alerted the village, but they were too far away to stop the lens from plummetting off the side of the cliff it turned out to have been mounted on top of and shattering into marble-sized pieces, scattered all over the valley.
Since not even Umbra would have a chance of stealing each individual piece now (he *did* have to pay energy for each spell, and could only target one thing at a time with intangibility) he dragged the rest of the party with him to Mexico City for lunch, and insisted they come up with some plan to get the crystal.
Nathaniel and Saul shrugged. If Umbra couldn't get it, their powers would be useless. Nathaniel suggested they convince the police that the enemy were draft dodgers and diamond smugglers and get them to round them up and collect the pieces of crystal, since stealing the crystal from the cops would be trivial. Who do you call for that, though?
So they called the home office, which put them in touch with the local office, which told them that the cops were useless -- they needed an army. "Who'd be the best person to mind-control to get this to happen?" Umbra asked. "Vincente Fox" was the reply.
After confirming with the home office that there were no rules against using mind control on heads of state, Umbra went and did that. Soon, Mexico's army was mobilizing against the were-thingies.
last week next week
Note to GM -- and yes, I've pointed this out to the GM (his response: 'whatever') -- the 'do anything' magical power does NOT give you level 3 in any other power at level 3. Level three is 'short duration, moderate powered effects'. Which is still totally twinky, but not as twinky as Umbra being LITERALLY BETTER AT LITERALLY EVERYTHING THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN THE PARTY.
Even ignoring that, though, whoever wrote BESM was on crack. It's the worst system I've ever played.
