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The Animated Hawkeye Trilogy is based upon the original Bullpen Bits #s 3, 17, and 18.
So Monte has begun a new Star Wars: Clone Wars camapign using the 3.0 rules. Of the three of us, only Rusty has seen the related movie. Rusty used the Human Jedi Padawan Learner template to create a human jedi guardian, while I used the Human Jedi Scholar to create a chiss jedi consular. Monte wanted us to pick existing jedi for our character’s masters, so Rusty chose Aayla Secura for Ostrik and I chose Ylenic It’kla for Naidraug Ralusnoc.
Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…
Four jedi were sent to the neutral world of Tatooine to ascertain what it would take to get Jabba Desilijic Tiure to allow the Galactic Republic to place a garrison there. While the troops were left in orbit, the four jedi went planetside. After getting a feel of the locals in Mos Eisley the masters set up a meeting at Chalmun’s Cantina without the padawans. While awaiting a resolution of the meeting, the area shook from an explosion. Naidraug tried telepathically contacting the Ylenic to no avail, so the two padawans rushed to the cantina. When they arrived there was no evidence of their masters, those whom they were meeting, nor whomever was responsible for the damage done to the cantina.
The padawans tracked down Jabba’s operation to a palace outside the city. Deciding that infiltration was better than direct conflict, Naidraug sought an audience with Jabba while Ostrik snuck inside. Jabba had indeed been behind the plot that captured the jedi masters. Naidraug tried bargaining for their release, but Jabba intended to Keep Aayla as one of his dancing girl brides. In fact, while Jabba thought about a trade for Ylenic, he insisted that a dancing girl attend to Naidraug. It was clear that the jedi masters were being drugged intravenously to prevent their lucidity and that the padawans would need to do some serious rescuing.
Meanwhile Ostrik was able to rescue the various people in the palace’s prison cells and take them to the warehouse dock. Naidraug noticed that one of the palace toughs had Aayla’s lightsabre on his belt. The tough was proud of the prize, and was reluctant to lose it. He finally settled on a case of Corellian whiskey for the sabre, which Ostrik was able to take from a pallette elsewhere in the warehouse. Ostrik and some of the freed prisoners moved the case to the dock doors, then informed Naidraug that the “delivery” had been made. That was both lightsabres and one drugged jedi master down, one drugged jedi master to go.
Finally, Naidraug did manage to secure the trade of Ylenic for a metric ton of spice. He requested that the clone commander escort the spice down, with the full battalion ready to rock. When the spice was delivered, Jabba’s forces found themselves surrounded on the dock with heavy armed troops on one side and Ostrik’s assorted freed captives on the other. The padawans successfully rescued their jedi masters, the other jailed captives, and the other captive would-be brides of Jabba. While most of the captives chose to leave on their own, some even commandeering the landspeeder the padawans had rented, one of the brides requested that she be taken home to planet of Zeltros. With both jedi masters recovered, the five headed to Zeltros.
Once planetside, the jedi reunited the young woman with her parents: the king and queen! Thankful to have the princess back safely, a grand festival was held with the four jedi as guests. Roll credits.
Your result for The Superhero Archetype Test…
Granted Immense Power, You’re the Divinity-Gifted Hero
3rd-party Endowed Heroes started out as commoners but then received help from their powerful master. For whatever noble reason, they are ushered into servitude and given powers; tools for fighting evil. Once endowed with supernatural power, they become a shining example for their master. A servant to their god, as it were. They change the world they live in as a way to further their master’s goals and plans; such as bringing down a vicious evil with your master’s power at your right hand.
The Good: You are something more than just human. A large and powerful entity has faith in you. You stick to a moral center that ensures that you are a righteous and good-natured hero. Your master’s favor and protection ensures a long superhero career.
The Bad: You don’t really have a personal purpose. Your moral code and your master’s goals are all you know. Serve your master’s goals and do his bidding, or be stripped of your powers and return to the life of the commoners. So much for personal motivation.
Examples: the biblical Samson, the Silver Surfer, the Green Lantern
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“The JLA’s success was mentioned in a friendly golf game between DC’s publisher, Jack Liebowitz, and Marvel Comics’ Martin Goodman. Upon hearing this, Goodman turned to Stan Lee, his editor-in-chief, and asked for a competitive title. Lee, thinking he had little to lose, teamed with artist Jack Kirby. With that, the Fantastic Four — and a new chapter in comics history — was born.” ~ Robert Greenberger, “Remembering the Millennium,” Millennium Edition: The Brave and the Bold 28, February 2000
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