Map Game: Heroes and Crime Edition

Name of your Character/Criminal Organization/Company etc: Victor Damascus - “The Laughing Man.”
Damascus was a good man, after many years of jumping from odd job to odd job he decided to make a difference and trained to join the police force. But, after being the target for an attack by an arsonist, Damascus was left horribly scarred, blind in his left eye, with minor lung damage, and an extreme fear of fire. Deemed unfit for police work, Damascus, and with no where near enough money to pay for the hospital bills he rapped himself in bandages and ran. Left homeless, and in near constant pain while off his meds, Damascus decided to enact revenge on the arsonist. After buying a simple small 2-shot .38 derringer and a hand full of bullets, he went out and shot the arsonist. The news called him a hero for doing it, and heal realized he could make a difference in his own, more direct way. He went back to the police station and pretending to be saying his last goodbyes and made off with a police radio and the contents his old weapons locker ($100, a bulletproof-vest, a 12 gauge Remington Model 1100, and a box of 24 shells).

After buying essentials(cloths, bit of food), a mask of a Laughing Man, a small room in a rundown apartment building, a single bottle of pain medicine, and a set of bandages he’s decided that he’s ready to start being a vigilante. now all he needs is a calling card…
(The aces represent the Ace of Swords.)

Class: Masked Vigilante

**Color:**Malachite

Location/Hideout:

Appearance: When he is Damascus, he is bandaged from head to hips covering the left side of his face, he wears blue jeans, a long sleeved red shirt, and hat. When he is the Laughing Man, he is bandaged to tips of his hands, over his bandaged covered torso he wears a bullet proof vest, and a black raincoat, within the rain coat he carries his Remington, in his right sleeve, his Derringer. His pants are jeans. He wears steel toed hiking boots.
(NOTE: He may be more then a little unhinged after an ordeal such as that, disfigurement, constant pain, the heat at that time… you understand)

Turn 2
Action 1: Check the police radios, there has to be something of note.

Action 2: Check out the apartment building, what is there to see?

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**Company Name:**THE’C ANEURE

Class: Store owner

Hideout: The building three down and one left from the Middle-class Fire department.


THE’C ANEURE is between St. Dingo and Red Kettle Street on Gas-lamp Boulevard

**Lore:**Will be posted in PM

Colour: Dark Scarlet

Turn 1:

Action 1:
Purchase the long warehouse on the western river bank just south of the bridge.

(will post it on a map in discussion thread along with where I think @electricsnowman is for you @Newf)

Action 2:
Now that THE’C ANEURE is up and running Oemleck decides to familiarize himself with the neighborhood. He travels up and down the length of Gaslamp Blvd. stopping in each shop to introduce himself as well as get a feel for how things are run.

Character: Tristram Montgomery III
Organization: Minds Measure Private Ivestigative Services
(the grammatical and spelling errors are on purpose; they’ll be explained in the PM)
Class: Private investigator
Hideout:


Colour: Light teal (as on the map)

Turn 1
Action 1: Tristram Montgomery III buys a small building which he sets up as a coffee shop. The coffee shop is a storefront cover for the head office of Minds Measure, which is on the second floor.
Action 2: An ex-police detective, Tristram spends time calling up the people he knows from those days to build connections for his new private investigations business.

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Turn 1

Action one: Just having set up shop Elsiva goes about spreading the word in the underworld that if you want poisons or antidotes she is the one to go to. She also carefully spread the word among the people with money that she can supply them with narcotics.

Action two: Upgrade the shop with my 100 moeyz

The shop/hideout is on the border between the rich and medium wealth districts.

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Name: Deneep Ferser
Class: Super villain
Ability: To read the mind of the enemy and create the most feared creator of the enemy (This is going to go badly).
Hideout: The seventh block (from the left) of the fourth row (on the left) of the area poor from the bottom of the map.
Colour: Any free colour.

Turn one.
Action one: Buy/Hire goons with all my money and give them a tour of the hide out.
Action two: Attack lonesome civilians during the night taking money, and valuable clothes (without removing more than a jumper/sweatshirt etc.)

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Name: The Shade

A psychotic killer of Crimton, I can not speak. I can be hired out to do assassinations and the like. But I am very unpredictable. I leave a calling card at every crime I do. Anyone that wants to get a hold of me can use the same calling card. For by touching my card I will know who they are and where they are at all time for the day.

When not doing anything, I roam the city or act homeless in a long trench coat ( different styles). Face covered and Hat on.

Class: Supervillian

Hideout: The darkness and sewers, I roam all over

Superpower: Power of hallucinations (part of how I communicate, I can make words appear in their minds), / nightmares.

Skills: Using Shadows to my advantage ie: Can dissappear and reappear in shadows (part of Ninjutsu training) Ninjutsu and Kempo

Colour: None, I’m homeless really, my colors are Red and Black

Action 1: Dwell in my slumber. Act homeless.
Action 2: Visits a contact.

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Name of your Character/Criminal organization/Company etc:
Class: Anti-Hero

* sort of *
Hideout:
Superpower: To take the form, knowledge and abilities of another, by carrying on him a personal item of theirs.
Colour: Dark Green With Golden Frame

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THE FIRST TURN SUMMARY

The first turn is upon us! Here is a download for the map if anyone wants it

Crimton.qmo (193.4 KB)



@dwarf- Baby Dwalus

Baby Dwalus uses his cute baby-ness to lure people into a dark alleyway under the illusion that he had got lost from his parents. Then Baby Dwalus would stab them in the shin, while they rolled on the ground in pain, Baby Dwalus slit their throats and dragged their corpses further into the alley so the next victim would not notice. Baby Dwalus makes off with 3 bodies using this technique and upon searching their persons gains 50$. Baby Dwalus, needing salt and pepper with which to eat his victims, finds a local mass murderer who calls himself ‘The Bankman’ and gives him cash to buy him some groceries since Baby Dwalus can’t reach the high shelves or the counter. At the end of the day, Baby Dwalus treats himself to a large feast on Mrs Gren’s roof
[-50$, +60$] Overall cash: 110$

@zippy611-Mechatronics inc.

Mechatronics inc. puts it’s efforts into a new self-defense robot but needs a new warehouse with which to store the new product and spends 100$ on buying the building to the left of them.
[-100$, +10$] Overall cash: 10$

@Heilari - Dominic Hoyt

Dominic Hoyt contacts local stores, banks, and businesses telling them of Danuk Armored’s brand new armoured cars. While no stores show interest, most banks in the area and a few businesses pre-order the armoured cars making Dominic a swift 400$. Dominic then goes about looking up a suitable car manufacturer in the phone books. While all the cars manufacturers in capitalist countries prove to have ludicrously high prices, Dominic finds a suitable manufacturer in a nearby communist country willing to manufacture cars for him at the low price of 150$, Dominic predicts he can then sell these cars for 200$ to those who have preordered.
[+10$] Overall cash: 510$

@Lepoard200 - Sema Moisson

Sema spends the day cleaning his sniper and putting a few feelers out to gather some business.
[+10$] Overall cash: 110$

@Dwalus - Papa Dwalus

The Mafia Boss instructs Jessica to go get a job at the Crimton Bank of Commerce, while her CV wasn’t very promising (Turns out having “Part-time Mobster” under previous jobs and “Local Mafia Boss” as a reference were not the best things to be on a CV) she managed to secure a job as a late night janitor. She gives 10$ of her paychecks to Papa Dwalus. The Mafia Boss then buys a second house 6 streets away from his current one. Perhaps a safe house? Towards the end of the day, Mayor Dwalus is checking his mail, most are complaints from citizens about crime levels which Mayor Dwalus tosses in the bin but one catches his eye, upon further reading he finds it is a Bomb Threat! Threatening to blow up one of the bridges by the end of tomorrow! If Mayor Dwalus doesn’t deal with this bomb threat it could cost him the mayorship!
[-100$, +20$] Overall cash: 20$

@thorbjorn42gbf - Harald Black

Harald sets up shop in an alleyway near a scenic view of the river where Tourists often visit. Due to only spending half his concentration on the games at hand he loses a lot of money towards the end of the day. Despite this he makes off with 50 cash which he then spends all of on dice, card packs and a small table. [-50, +60$] Overall cash: 110$

@Gridnick - 'The Bankman’

‘The Bankman’ is offered 25$ by a baby to buy him some groceries, sensing easy money ‘The Bankman’ obliges and parts with his young friend on good terms. Late that night ‘The Bankman’ grabs a man who had pulled his car over on the bridge for a smoke on the way home from work. ‘The Bankman’ hangs him from a lamp post on the bridge after taking his wallet which contained only 25$.
[+50$] Overall cash: 160$

@Elven_Hero - Quantum

Quantum begins searching around the slums for a decent sidekick, while a child can be bought cheap from the right people, Quantum doesn’t see anyone he likes the look of or that can keep up with him. He does however make a few contacts in the slums who promise to tell him if they see any crimes committed in exchange for protection giving him 10 influence. (You need 500 influence before you can get a sidekick.). A few people let him take left overs from recent building work viewing his arrival as a sign that things will soon be changing in Crimton for the better.
[-100 influence, +30 influence] Overall influence: 30

@Nar5ial - The Consarcio(Stitch) Syndicate

Areas filled with the homeless are marked out for organ harvesting. The homeless are easily lured into dark alleys with promises of food and shelter making easy pickings for the syndicate. An organ exchange program is set up with a foreign Communist hospital who believe even organs must be shared and compulsory organ donations are forced upon the populace (Crazy foreigners). This leads to plenty of organs being at hand for the surgeons in the Hospital to use. 10 patients are treated today!
[+10$] Overall cash: 110$

@Drackonian - Razor

Razor proposes a treaty with a local crime boss called Papa Dwalus in which he provides protection from superheroes such as the deadly Quantum in exchange for armour and guns which is accepted readily. To make himself known Razor robs stores in the slums with his new guns and armour, He makes 100$ by robbing two stores before coming across a Pharmaceutical (Which among the denizens of Crimton’s Underworld is known to sell narcotics and poisons) and while trying to rob it the female store clerk pulls a shotgun on him, Razor makes a quick escape through the window while the girl called security, luckily his armour protected him from any wounds from the shards of glass.
[+110$, +1 wanted level] Overall cash: 210$

@Zilla - Zilla ‘Zillionaire’ Zillington/ Owner of "Future Life INC."

Zilla after arriving in a time machine Zilla quickly finds out he is in the year 1966 and makes a few friends around town with his misadventures of trying to find the date. Zilla builds a robot out of the remnants of his time machine and uses it to scare the chairman of Future Life INC. into signing over the deed of his company. While escorting him out of the building, the robot trips on the escalator and crushes the previous owner of the business but is damaged beyond repair by the fall. The police view the death of the previous chairman and signing over of the company as suspicious but take no further action other than bringing the body to the morgue and questioning witnesses.
[+10$, +1 wanted level] Overall cash: 110$

@naturalnuke - Victor Damascus - "The Laughing Man."

Victor decides to greet his neighbours in the apartment building, while searching the building Victor finds a Drug den, he introduces himself to the owner and quickly departs. “The Laughing Man” later returns and butchers all those in the Drug Den making it look like a rival gang attacked and leaves his calling card in the Owner of the Drug Den’s lapel, “The Laughing Man” does not confiscate the drugs but instead runs off with the Drug Den’s supply of firearms and ammunition. Later that night “The Laughing Man” checks police radios and hears that late in the night a man was hanged on a lamp post on the north bridge. He decides to investigate the murder.
[+10 influence] Overall influence: 110

@Llessur - THE’C ANEURE

Oemleck, the owner of THE’C ANEURE purchases a warehouse before introducing himself to other store owners in the neighborhood of Gaslamp Blvd. Oemleck makes a few friends among the store owners and is invited to a pub outing of all the store owners in the area the next night.
[-100$, +10$] Overall cash: 10$

@5h0rgunn - Tristram Montgomery III/Minds Measure Private Investigative Services

Tristram sets up his offices above a rundown and out-of-business coffee shop before later purchasing the coffee shop as well for 100$. Tristram later called up his cop buddies from when he was in the police force and asked for them to send over any cases that they needed help on and spread the word about his business. As the office was closing up for the night a young woman burst in and made her way up to the office and presented herself before the secretary before being sent in to Tristram. The woman explained that recently her husband who worked as a doctor had been leaving late at night and arriving in the early hours of the morning bedraggled, at first she thought it was just his work but he was still taking day shifts. When she told this to her friend, who happened to be the wife of one of Tristram’s cop buddies, she recommended Tristram for the job. The woman finishes saying she suspects her husband may be having an affair.
[-100$,+20$] Overall cash: 20$

@Elderon - Elsiva and Mystra

Leaving Mystra in charge of the shop, Elsiva sets out with a pistol shoved down the back of her trousers in the place of a holster and spreads the word of her new shop’s selection of poisons and narcotics amongst the denizens of the Underworld. When Elsiva returns she finds the two muscular ‘helpers’ outside the shop trying to mend a broken window while the girl on shift at the counter is shaking and wielding the shotgun kept under the desk. Turns out a man with a gun had burst in and tried to rob the store, when the girl pulled the shotgun on him, he had escaped through the window! In a rage at this injustice Elsiva spent 100$ renovating the store and adding iron bars onto the windows.
[-100$, +20$] Overall cash: 20$

@electricsnowman - Deneep Ferser

After mailing his post, Deneep Ferser chooses to spend the night mugging the innocent (As innocent as a citizen of Crimton could ever be of course) folk of Crimton by making a T-Rex appear in front of him and threatening to let it eat them if they didn’t hand over their money. Very few could take their eyes off of the giant reptile allowing Deneep to knife them in order to silence the witnesses. Deneep makes 50$ all in all and nabbing some swag clothing which could probably get him into some of the more fancy establishments in Crimton.
[+50$, +10 fear] Overall cash: 50$ Overall fear: 110

@micheal_handy76_mh - The Shade

The Shade lurks around town looking homeless and then delves into the sewers later on and ends up wrestling a crocodile. The Shade wins the fight and gains the Crocodile’s tooth as a trophy. The tooth can for some reason so sharp it cut through the stone of the sewers quite easily and The Shade fashions it into a knife for later use. At precisely 2 o’clock The Shade appears behind his contact at the place they were to meet. The contact offers 1000$ if The Shade can kill the new Chairman of Future Life INC., Zilla ‘Zillionaire’ Zillington. (You can only have one power, so I suggest choosing one of the ones you chose)
[+10$] Overall cash: 110$

@Tserof - Tserof Quole

Quole doesn’t choose to do anything much today but wins 50$ on a scratch card anyway
[+50$] Overall cash: 50$ Overall influence: 100

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Dominic Hoyt, CEO and Founder of Danuk Armored


Action I:
With the money from the pre-orders for the armored cars, Dominic contacts the manufacturer to start producing the armored cars. Dominic plans to sell the cars to the businesses that pre-ordered them at the arranged price ($150 to make the cars, $200 sell price; $50 profit).

Action II:
With the money coming in from the sales, Dominic reaches out to more banks and businesses to tell them about the success of Danuk Armored, hopefully getting more business.

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Victor Damascus

Action 1
After investigating the bridge murders check shady alleys or go to run down bars to see what I can learn about the local crime.

Action 2
Clean up the local streets.

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This is my actual turn since as I am a super villain I cant hire goons.

Action 1: Attack lonesome people in the neutral zone and take valuables (Money, Phones, Laptops, valuable clothes coats shoes etc.)

Action two: Write a letter to the Major threatening to blow up one of the bridges over the river ransom will be $1,000.

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Action 1:
Upon hearing of the demise of the owner of Future Life inc. I propose a business partnership with Future Life, saying "We can go farther together than we can alone, oh and also I don’t really want to have to kill you."
Action 2:
More promotion of our famous line of home and personal security bots!

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Action 1: Announce a fundraiser that was in the planning by the broad of doctors, have a speech that explains all the doctors have been putting in extra hours to organize the event and that we are trying to raise money for new medical supplies for the community.

Action 2: Start a work-to-harvest scheduled so that times sic and no minuet is left uncounted for. (Since we are restructuring the hunting it won’t happen this turn)

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Action 1: The dropping coin can be heard from all around like the sound of a business
Action 2: The glue of the community that keeps us together, the water supplying us with life, stained red with the dispatcher’s blood terrible riddle (really bad i know don’t judge me)

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I will offer my services to @5h0rgunn.
I will also buy a laundrette business.

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Action 1: Stalk my target using the shadows, Waiting on the target most vulnerable time to strike!

Action 2: Cause hallucinations to my target of feeling comfortable, and strike for the killing blow quickly. After all said and done. I leave my card at the crime scene (no prints)

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so… is this thread where the game is played? I thought we said that would take place via PMs, no?

you can request to join the game here, and setup your player, etc. but I thought the rest was kept off this thread… :confused:

no the discussion is kept in pms the turns and entries are done here

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Actions

  • Papa Dwalus sends his eight best warriors to launch an attack on the Crimton Bank of Commerce in the night. Since Jessica already works there, she can easily guide them through the process and escape with the money without being caught.

  • Accept the bomber’s terms and prepare to give him the money at the time and place he foretold. Unbeknownst to him, a team of FBI (if not then maybe police) (if not that either then several of my mobsters) will wait to ambush him.

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Action 1: Zilla tries to find a way to communicate with his robots in the future, maybe they can make a time machine. Maybe Zilla’s robot army can come to the past and help him takeover this city… Then the world…
Action 2: Zilla takes electronics around the headquarters to make more robots to help him on his way… It’s a good idea really, have the robots do the dirty work… No fingerprints, no evidence, even if the police do find the robot, it’ll just self-destruct and kill the officers… No evidence against Zilla…

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