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#1 Guest_Blue-Inked_Frost_*

Posted 01 August 2011 - 08:14 AM

Summary: Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot. Short crossover with Batman. An Athkatlan vigilante sponsors the next generation.

Note: Also based on some RPG ideas kicked around by Serenity Frost. DC reference: Steph and Cass, Best Friends Forever. And a Narbonic reference too.

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Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.

This, of course, is due to their underprivileged societal status and oppression of their tyrannical class-based overlords, which unfair treatment leads them with no choice but to commit criminal acts for survival. They lack the education to lead them out of the endless cycle of poverty and only a proletarian revolution led by enlightened souls has the true potential to change society for the better.

Until then, Flying Squirrel Woman roamed the night dressed in a flying squirrel costume to instill such fear in them.

It takes a truly exceptional persona to engage in vigilante activity. The agility of a cat, for instance. The strength of at least a miniature pony for short bursts at a time. The constitution of an ox. A fair intelligence. Vast resources in time and finance. And a motivation, such as one's parents being murdered before one's eyes.

Nalia De'Arnise, it turned out, had many of the suitable qualities for a superhero vigilante.

She hired extras when logistics failed her.

There was the first Opossum Boy, or rather, Opossum Man, rescued from the Circus after grave peril to his family. He left to become Quaylewing. And there was the second Opossum Boy. Rescued from an already-troubled situation as an apprentice to a Zhent, he continued along a dark path and was killed. Or may have been later, dubiously, raised once more by evil Cyricist priests to avenge his own death on his former friends. The third Opossum Boy, who lasted quite some time, was known as Biff the Understudy, talented at stalking around in case people needed him to say memorised lines.

And there was the first, fallen Hedgehog Girl, who became Pythia, a wingless, one-legged avariel, crippled and yet knowledgeable in the ways of magic...with scrying balls all over the entire city.

And then in a time when Athkatla, victim of natural disasters and vampiric invasions, became No Amnian's Land, abandoned: Pythia adopted two young girls into the family.

Kove-rahs flipped Beta into the mat.

Kove-rahs flipped Beta into the mat.

Kove-rahs flipped Beta into the mat.

"Jeez. Can't'cha take a break?"

The fair-skinned blonde looked up at the brunette.

"I was trained to be the best the world has ever known," Kove-rahs Dosan said. "My mother gave me a sword before she gave me a bottle. My father gave me a hidden spark of divine essence and the will to conquer. I have their combined fighting skill and more, and a will of hatred against all mankind."

"My dad only cloned me from Mum's bloody bandages and toenail clippings," Beta Samael said. "You can tell by what he named me. Cruel joke, really. Of course, Mum's the reigning Lady of Murder."

"My father Sarevok and my mother Shar-Teel fight with swords each time they meet," Kove-rahs said. "I learned the language of war long before I learned human speech so I would achieve my father's dreams of godhood."

"I was just raised by goblin nannies and Uncle Monty," Beta said. "Then I got the compulsion to foil Dad's Zhentish necromantic crimes under a costumed vigilante identity."

"The necromancer. My father spoke of Xzar Samael as a pathetic villain with an inferior evil laugh," Kove-rahs said. "My mother spoke of him as yet another useless male."

"Okay, Dad always was a little scared of Mum's big brother," Beta said. "You win that one."

"I win every one," Kove-rahs said. "Your fighting is not good."

"But I never give up," Beta said. "I guess I go out in the night because... You grow up looking up to your father, and then you want to take care of him as well as the people he hurts in his mad experiments. What about you?"

"My father tries to take over whole kingdoms and my mother tries to slay countries," Kove-rahs said. "That's why I'm a superhero."

"Okay, you win again," Beta said. "Dad and Uncle Monty are still pretty mean, y' know. He likes to guilt-trip me for taking care of my vat for nine-and-a-half months before he decanted me, and Uncle Monty used to lock me in the closet when he was mad at me. What'd Sarevok Anchev and Shar-Teel Dosan do to you when you messed up?"

"Shot me with crossbows, of course," Kove-rahs said.

"...Okay," Beta said, and then the Flying Squirrel signal flashed through Athkatla skies. "You know what they say if you really can't beat them at anything?"

"Patrol route for Rotter and Hedgehog Girl," Pythia the chair-bound avariel spoke via portable crystal ball. "Two-Face Delryn spotted in the Copper Coronet Quarter..."

"Same time tomorrow for training?" Kove-rahs said.

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Edited by Blue-Inked_Frost, 01 August 2011 - 08:15 AM.


#2 Guest_AlphaMonkey_*

Posted 01 August 2011 - 04:44 PM

Summary: Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot. Short crossover with Batman. An Athkatlan vigilante sponsors the next generation.


Strangely enough, this isn't the first time Batman/Baldur's Gate has been done. (Cough.) Shameless plug. (Cough.)

DC reference: Steph and Cass, Best Friends Forever.


Two of my three favorite Batgirls. Awwww. (I can't take Betty Kane seriously.)

Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.

This, of course, is due to their underprivileged societal status and oppression of their tyrannical class-based overlords, which unfair treatment leads them with no choice but to commit criminal acts for survival. They lack the education to lead them out of the endless cycle of poverty and only a proletarian revolution led by enlightened souls has the true potential to change society for the better.

Until then, Flying Squirrel Woman roamed the night dressed in a flying squirrel costume to instill such fear in them.

It takes a truly exceptional persona to engage in vigilante activity. The agility of a cat, for instance. The strength of at least a miniature pony for short bursts at a time. The constitution of an ox. A fair intelligence. Vast resources in time and finance. And a motivation, such as one's parents being murdered before one's eyes.

Nalia De'Arnise, it turned out, had many of the suitable qualities for a superhero vigilante.


I was wondering when you were going to get to the whole "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!" part.

Huh. Nalia as multi-billionaire playboy (er... girl?) "Bruce Wayne?" Ok, then. Yeah, close enough.

There was the first Opossum Boy, or rather, Opossum Man, rescued from the Circus after grave peril to his family. He left to become Quaylewing.


Quayle as Dick.

(Sporfle.)

And there was the second Opossum Boy. Rescued from an already-troubled situation as an apprentice to a Zhent, he continued along a dark path and was killed. Or may have been later, dubiously, raised once more by evil Cyricist priests to avenge his own death on his former friends.


Dude. Jason as Montaron? Because I'm trying to think which is a more inglorious (and thus fitting. (Me is not a fan of Mr. Todd.) way to perish. Getting whacked over the head by Mistah J or getting turned into a bird.

The third Opossum Boy, who lasted quite some time, was known as Biff the Understudy, talented at stalking around in case people needed him to say memorised lines.


Awwwww. Tim deserves BETTER.

They've totally butchered his character these days, but back in the day, he was pretty awesome.

And there was the first, fallen Hedgehog Girl, who became Pythia, a wingless, one-legged avariel, crippled and yet knowledgeable in the ways of magic...with scrying balls all over the entire city.


(Hugs Babs.)

And then in a time when Athkatla, victim of natural disasters and vampiric invasions, became No Amnian's Land, abandoned: Pythia adopted two young girls into the family.


The NML plotline is about the time I seriously got into this stuff. Took me a while to warm up to Cass since all I knew was Babs as Batgirl from cartoons and the like. But... you know... it's Cass. And she is AWESOME. :D

"I was trained to be the best the world has ever known," Kove-rahs Dosan said. "My mother gave me a sword before she gave me a bottle. My father gave me a hidden spark of divine essence and the will to conquer. I have their combined fighting skill and more, and a will of hatred against all mankind."


Did you also spontaneously develop the ability to speak Navajo?

(Thank you, Dan Didio.)

:rolleyes:

"My dad only cloned me from Mum's bloody bandages and toenail clippings," Beta Samael said. "You can tell by what he named me. Cruel joke, really. Of course, Mum's the reigning Lady of Murder."


And yet that doesn't seem to help you much against the daughter of the world's best martial artist and the world's deadliest assassin. FUNNY how that works. :D

"Then I got the compulsion to foil Dad's Zhentish necromantic crimes under a costumed vigilante identity."


Xzar is the Cluemaster?

I hate you. :D

Pardon. Laughing forever. :D

"I win every one," Kove-rahs said. "Your fighting is not good."


(Hugs Cass.) She's such a sweetheart, isn't she?

"Patrol route for Rotter and Hedgehog Girl," Pythia the chair-bound avariel spoke via portable crystal ball. "Two-Face Delryn spotted in the Copper Coronet Quarter..."


Former District Attorney Harvey Delryn? For serious? (Snort.)

My head. She hurts.

Oh, the silly. It's fun.

#3 Guest_Blue-Inked_Frost_*

Posted 02 August 2011 - 08:03 PM

Strangely enough, this isn't the first time Batman/Baldur's Gate has been done. (Cough.) Shameless plug. (Cough.)


Hey now, shameless plugs don't count unless links are provided. :P Memory is fragile, you know!

Two of my three favorite Batgirls. Awwww. (I can't take Betty Kane seriously.)


Well, no, that is a bit hard to do. ;) Poor girl! The revamped Kate Kane has a pretty dramatic affect about her.

I was wondering when you were going to get to the whole "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!" part.

Huh. Nalia as multi-billionaire playboy (er... girl?) "Bruce Wayne?" Ok, then. Yeah, close enough.


Nalia's parents...THEY ARE DEAD.

Dude. Jason as Montaron? Because I'm trying to think which is a more inglorious (and thus fitting. (Me is not a fan of Mr. Todd.) way to perish. Getting whacked over the head by Mistah J or getting turned into a bird.


I am entirely in favour of Mr Todd getting turned into a plump pigeon! I like him and his messy bundle of issues and the fun in watching him get smacked around.

The third Opossum Boy, who lasted quite some time, was known as Biff the Understudy, talented at stalking around in case people needed him to say memorised lines.


Awwwww. Tim deserves BETTER.


I admit here I was going off the Robin ditty present in some people's clever icons:

Here's a Robin
There's a Robin
And another little Robin
Panties, trains and throwing Robin
Robin, Robin, Bruce.

One was once a gymnast
Four can't catch a break
Three's a creepy stalker boy
His last name is Drake

Two was only twelve years dead
But he caught a rail
And now frightens little child
With the gory tale.


They've totally butchered his character these days, but back in the day, he was pretty awesome.


True, that. :) But he was also Tim the stalker boy, and who better to follow the NPCs around than good old Biff?

And there was the first, fallen Hedgehog Girl, who became Pythia, a wingless, one-legged avariel, crippled and yet knowledgeable in the ways of magic...with scrying balls all over the entire city.


(Hugs Babs.)


Babs rocks. :)

"I was trained to be the best the world has ever known," Kove-rahs Dosan said. "My mother gave me a sword before she gave me a bottle. My father gave me a hidden spark of divine essence and the will to conquer. I have their combined fighting skill and more, and a will of hatred against all mankind."


Did you also spontaneously develop the ability to speak Navajo?


Kove-rahs: An obscure dialect of Maztican, actually.

And yet that doesn't seem to help you much against the daughter of the world's best martial artist and the world's deadliest assassin. FUNNY how that works. :D


Who learned body language as a language. :D

"Then I got the compulsion to foil Dad's Zhentish necromantic crimes under a costumed vigilante identity."


Xzar is the Cluemaster?

I hate you. :D

Pardon. Laughing forever. :D


Can't you see him developing the psychiatric condition to start telling people about his crimes before he commits them? :D

(Hugs Cass.) She's such a sweetheart, isn't she?


Adorable. <3

"Patrol route for Rotter and Hedgehog Girl," Pythia the chair-bound avariel spoke via portable crystal ball. "Two-Face Delryn spotted in the Copper Coronet Quarter..."


Former District Attorney Harvey Delryn? For serious? (Snort.)


Former hardcore Helmite prosecutor now comes with a chaotic coin-flip through traumatic events that split off half that fancy beard. :P

Thanks for commenting, Alpha!

#4 Guest_IronDragon_*

Posted 02 August 2011 - 09:41 PM

all i can say is :lol:

#5 Guest_Blue-Inked_Frost_*

Posted 04 August 2011 - 11:54 AM

all i can say is :lol:


:) Thanks!




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