This is a swashbuckling superhero comedy scfi adventure.

Inspiration: The Tick, Megaton Man, Any other superhero parody

In this world:

  • Superheroes are ridiculous buffoons with quirky powers (Cactus Man, Ice Cream Sundae Avenger, Papercut Pete)

  • Villains are equally as silly and generally pathetic (Taking over the local Sears, turning everyone into teddy bears, writing their name on the moon)

  • Whenever a hero or villian does something they succeed, it’s not exactly how they intend it to succeed (Papercute Pete tries giving a henchman a papercut to drop their weapon, but the henchman instead becomes a blubbering mess because he can’t stand even the smallest amount of blood)

  • The world is incredibly fragile, buildings topple when barely impacted, cars crumple at the slightest touch, things break in spectacular fashion, natural and man-made disasters occur frequently and with devastating force.

You are a team of stupid superheroes seeking to stop The Big Squeeker from turning the city into squeaky pet toys. Already many citizens and the local police have been turned into various squeaky toys, squeaking incessantly, driving everyone batty.

Right now, the team is fighting a giant squeaky robot that is knocking over buildings and causing havoc downtown.

If you can defeat the robot it will reveal the location of the squeaky ray which is transforming the citizens into squeaky toys.

Character Creation:

  • What weird power do you have that nobody else can do?
  • What is your biggest fear?
  • What crippling flaw do you have?
  • What do people call you?
  • What do you look like?

To accomplish an action:

Roll the dice and tell me a reason why you succeed, for each acceptable reason I’ll add one to your result. If you can come up with 3 or more acceptable reasons, you succeed automatically. Otherwise, roll a D6 and add 1 for each acceptable reason.

  • 6 or more: You succeed cleanly.
  • 5: You succeed at a steep cost.
  • 4 or less: You fail and things go badly for you.

Failure: Each failed roll you’ll take a condition. Each condition weakens future rolls by one.

To Roll: Use the free dice roller by /u/starlord@lemm.ee linked here: https://tinyurl.com/everypostroll

Be sure to add your character’s name and the action they are taking in the roll dialogue. Then copy the link generated to your post. For each roll copy the roll of the person who last rolled, so we can keep our rolls in the same history together.

  • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    With a loud POP! The woman flies out of the tree, knocking into the robot and thrusting both her and the robot into the harbor. She and the robot plunge into the water, scaring the seagulls away. The robot thrashes wildly, and a current carries it out to the mouth of the harbor. Below you is the electric woman, bobbing in the water, looking slightly dazed.

      • chetradley@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        “Hey there… I’m…” Don’t say it, don’t say it “…just hanging in there…”

        “Did we get it? I’m Lorolito by the way.”

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          3 days ago

          “We got it! Shocking right?”

          Internal voice: Wait idiot, you can’t throw lightning, so he probably doesn’t know about the whole electricity thing

          “You know, because… I can charge batteries…”

          Internal voice: Wow, way to sell yourself there! What are you even doing you idiot?!

          “Don’t mind me, I’ll just be hear drowning myself. Wait, actually, do you need a hand? You look kinda stuck?”

          WW spends the next 10 minutes trying to find a ladder to climb out of the water, and head over towards Lori and free him. Even when she reaches him, she is still soaking wet, and covered in the remnants of of the rubbish ball she was earlier in. Seaweed and even more rubbish are matted in to her hair, which hangs limply around her face, for once not sticking out at all angles

          “Oh yeah, hi. I’m Wattage Woman. But you can call me… Actually, you know, I need a better name. No wonder the bad guys always call me Short Circuit. It does sort of have a better ring to it than Wattage Woman… Hrmm… Oh yeah, about getting you down…”

          • chetradley@lemm.ee
            1·
            3 days ago

            " Thanks for your help back there" I say weakly “I think I’m going to go to sleep now, but we need to talk. I think we should team up. There’s clearly a much bigger threat that I don’t think anyone… is aware…of…” I muster my last bit of strength to reach out and lightly brush the side of the ship “the true…enemy:…whalers…” I pass out

      • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        (Man, Lemmy comments aren’t as suited to Play by Post as Discord is. I’ll have to work out the kinks next time. My intention was also to have each game last for roughly a week, so I figured we’d wrap it up with your guy’s next interactions.)

        I responded to your last post to @chetradley@lemm.ee, I figured you guys could finally meet and we will wrap things up. My idea was for each game to be a week or two. The last few interactions can be a montage of sorts for a satisfying way to conclude things ;)