The HeroClix Roleplayers' Society!

A Finer World Part II (Episode 17):
Earth War Chapter 7: Free Metropolis

Are you tired of brawl after brawl without a story behind it? Have you wanted a bit of plot to go along with your Clix related mayhem? Do you want to help create the rosters for superhero teams and supervillain societies? Do you like weirdly fun mashups between different Clix sets? In the Heroclix Roleplayers' Society, decisions like these are yours for the making! So grab your Clix, your dice, and join the HeroClix Roleplayers' Society!

To get caught up:
A Finer World, Part I:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Part II: Earth War
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16

Heroclix Roleplayers' Society - A Primer

The Heroclix Roleplayers' Society (HRS) is a large scale role playing game where the story is based on games played by the players, and the events are based on the story. Every other week, a new chapter will be posted that does two things.

First, each posting will start with a story update. These updates will advance the plot of the story, update players on the rosters of active teams, and layout the plot behind the next battle. The story will be heavily influenced by the actions of the players that post their results to the HRS threads. While the overall story is planned ahead of time, huge portions of it will be created by you, the players!

Secondly, each post will come with an event for HRS members to play in. These events will be similar to events run by local venues. They will have point values, team restrictions, and/or special rules that are in affect for the game. These events can be run with a friend, or in a tournament setting if your local judge is running HRS events.

After you have completed a HRS event, simply post an after actions report to the HRS thread, and your game will help determine what happens next!

NOTE: While games played in earlier chapters won't count toward canon, new players are always welcome to play older scenarios and post their results.

Now onto Earth War Chapter 7: Free Metropolis. (Episode 17 of A Finer World.)

The Kree did not take Earth easily.

Even now, months after their victory, the Earth was not truly theirs. Gotham was a feudal battleground, defended with such psychotic loyalty by the madmen who lived there that the Kree had abandoned it.

New York survived under Kree control. Los Angeles, too, and London, and Tokyo, and many other major cities. Star City was in ruins. Coast City brutalized, but standing. The Kree wanted to declare victory, but they could not justify the pronouncement. Everywhere they turned, Earthlings with superpowers opposed them. The Guardians of the Galaxy in the west. The forces of the Bat in the east. The Changers, a mobile threat, popping up unexpectedly across the country.

Somewhere in the desert, Amanda Waller held in her hand the Kree's battle plans. As far as she knew, the Kree were unaware. They'd fallen for an elaborate ruse that cost the lives of dozens of Waller's agents, but in the end, they got what they needed.

We need allies, Waller thought. This wasn't a fight she could win alone. As arrogant as she knew she was, even the Wall knew when she'd need help. She had the data. She just didn't have the firepower.

But she knew where to get it.

* * *

Metropolis was a city in peril.

It had mostly fallen to the Kree, like many other cities like it, but, like Gotham, its own people had fought back. A man named Luthor led an underground resistance. Project Cadmus had turned loose some of their projects in attempt to keep the Kree at bay.

And along the way, a mysterious benefactor had come to defend the city as well. An alien, who leapt tall buildings in a single bound. Faster than a speeding bullet. Stronger than a locomotive.

This often sighted but rarely truly seen protector would take out Kree patrols, protect caravans and scavengers, fight back Klingon death squads, but always, always he would disappear.

That savior was known as Kristoff Von Doom. A name he no longer wanted. But the people he saved had begun to call him Superman.

Tonight, Superman rested beneath a bridge, in the dark. He was tired, but his alien physiognomy didn't let him grow excessively so. As long as he got enough sunlight, he could fight without pause.

He had been alone for so long he barely knew himself any longer. All he knew was this endless war for a world that did not want him. He wondered what side of the war his father had taken. The one most likely to win, he knew.

He was knocked from his pensive thoughts by a voice.

"Hey! Hey, are you--no, you're not one of them," the woman said. "Wait. You can't be."

"I don't know what you're talking about, miss," Superman said, watching the woman stumble around in the dark. Finally, a light fell across her face, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Hi. I'm--I'm Lois Lane, of the Daily Planet. Or what's left of it," she said. "You're him, aren't you."

"Him?"

"The Superman."

"You have me mistaken for someone else."

"I came here looking for someone else, but you're... are you working with them?"

"Working with who?" Superman said.

"Working with us," another voice said. "And the answer is no."

The second voice belonged to a younger woman. Impossibly pale, she wore a long, dark cloak, eyes burning from within the cowl. Others hung back behind her, waiting.

"We're the Runaways," she said. "Hi, Ms. Lane. Do you have the intel?"

Lois handed something to the other woman.

"Schematics for the Sentinel outpost," she said. "I can't guarantee the Kree haven't changed any of it since they commandeered the Sentinel program from the U.S. government, but it should be enough to get you started."

"We have a guy," the younger woman said. "If we can get on-site, he can reverse whatever they've done to take control of the Sentinels."

"And then what, Raven? Deactivate them?"

"Turn them on the Kree and free Metropolis," Raven said. "Hey, new guy."

Superman looked at this strange girl in the cloak but said nothing.

"You're the Superman. Don't deny it. Everyone sees you as a blur, but those colors are hard to miss."

"What do you want?" he said.

"This is the biggest mission of our lives," Raven said. "If we win, we free this city. And we could use your help."

"What makes you think I care enough to help?" Kristoff said.

"You've been fighting for this city for weeks," Raven said. "And I get the feeling you're not doing that because you're bored."

Superman stood up, brushing off the dirt from his pants. He nodded.

"Very well," he said. "I'll join your cause."

The Scenario: Free Metropolis

Point total determined by the players.

Team 1: The Runaways
Build a team made up of any number of the following.
Superman
Raven
Lois Lane (Optional)
Young heroes (teens/early twenties) for consideration for canon members of the Runaways.

Team 2: The Sentinels and their Minders
Build a team using:
Sentinels
Inhumans
Klingons

Goal: The Runaways need to distract the Sentinels and their controllers for a certain number of rounds. Players choose based on how long you want the match to be: recommended number of rounds: 10. Alternately, roll 2, 3, of 4 d6 to determine the number of rounds you'd like to play. the Runaways need to survive that number of rounds. At the end of which, the Sentinel program is deactivated, and any Sentinels on the field change to Team 1. At this point, the game can end, or the players can choose to play to the death.

Post your results:
What were your teams?
Who won?
Who survived?
Were the Sentinels deactivated?

Reserved for bonus mission.

Dramatis Personae:


The Changers:
Stephen Strange: A powerful magician wielding powers not of this world, he leads the Changers as they try to course-correct a timeline where everything has gone wrong. CURRENTLY MISSING, presumed deceased
Emma Frost: A powerful psychic who receives signals from other timelines, telling her people to pinpoint who, by altering their actions, can make this world better.
Nightwing: Dick Grayson is a constant throughout the multiverse--he is always a paragon of heroism. He represents the optimism the team needs. CURRENTLY MISSING. Can be played as part of another faction, but should not be played with the other Changers this week.
Moon Knight: A loose thread in this timeline because of his split personality, Moon Knight represents the member of the team willing to do anything in battle necessary to win. CURRENTLY MISSING. Whereabouts unknown.
Lockjaw: A dog. Who teleports.
Peter Parker, who was used by SHIELD in this timeline to create spider-powered super soldiers.
Courtney Whitmore, the newly anointed Blue Lantern.
The Blue Lantern may use the following optional rule:
The figure costs 20 points more than normal, but gains the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.

Agents of SHIELD:
Director Amanda Waller
the Widow, her lead assassin (IDENTITY TO BE ANNOUNCED)
The Spiders, her elite task force
Sasha Bordeaux

The Captains America:
Captain America Red: Taskmaster. Captain America Red is the black ops / wetworks captain.
Captain America White: John Stewart. The peacekeeper Captain.
Captain America Blue: TBD: The public face of the super soldier program.
Captain America Black Division: Venom symbiote-bonded supersoldiers. Currently there are two members of this team:
Flash Thompson
Frank Castle
Barbara Gordon

Venom-bonded characters may use the following trait: The character costs 20 points more, and can use any character with a name of "Venom" as a possessor following the following rules:

EFFECT: At the beginning of your turn or after this character is clicked, you may choose 1 power on the equipped dial and 1 combat value on the equipped dial higher than this character's same printed combat value. This character can use that power and modifies that combat value by +1 until your next turn or clicked.

The Guardians of the Galaxy

Dick Grayson
Logan
Rocket Raccoon
Groot
Starfire
Steve Rogers - Cap may use the following trait:
The Green Lantern may use the following optional rule:
The figure costs 20 points more than normal, but gains the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.

The Crimelord of Gotham: Batman - Bruce Wayne
His Loyal Lieutenants:
Catwoman
Shocker
Harley Quinn
His Betrayers:
Hammerhead
Two-Face
Bullseye
Penguin
Captain Boomerang

Gotham PD:
Commissioner: James Woo
Harvey Bullock
Renee Montoya
Frank Castle (formerly)

The Robins:
Jubilee
Cloak
Dagger
Cassandra Cain
Stephanie Brown
Nico Minoru
Tim Drake

The Alien Who Fell: Kristoff Von Doom, a Kryptonian

The King of Latveria: Victor Von Doom

Namor, the Red Lantern.

The Rule of Wakanda: T'Challa
Wakandans:
White Wolf
W'Kabi

Of Themiscyra: Diana
Hippolyta
Tigra
Cheetah

The Furies:
Storm
Artemis
Scandal Savage
Giganta
Duchess

The Mutant Liberation Front: Magneto - leader
Polaris - field leader
Poison Ivy
King Shark
Static
Alopex
Element Man
Havok
Black Lightning
Nightcrawler
(more to come)

The Atlantean Council: Queen Mera
Her consort, Arthur Curry
Their niece, Namorita
Lori Lemaris
Ariel
Ocean Master
Attuma

The Fantastic Four:
Hank Henshaw
Firestorm
Abyss
Bruce Banner

The God Among Men:
Thanos, the God of Death

The Warlord Inventor:
Tony Stark
His army of Iron Man suits.

The Rogues:
Captain Cold
Pyro
Terra
Electro
Riddler

The Runaways
TBD

The Hellfire Club
Black King: Black Knight
White King: Ra's Al Ghul
Black Queen: Moondragon
White Queen: Talia Al Ghul
Executioner: Deadpool

The Nova Corps
Wally West
Fandral
Captain Kirk
Star-Lord
Korvus

And now I am set can’t wait to play!



Superman and The Runaways

Force Build 9096313 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WF	001	Superman		90	SELL
SMWW	047	Lois Lane		45	SELL
WW	009	Raven		40	SELL
TMT	050	Loki, Agent of Asgard		60	SELL
SWB	015	Molly Hayes		25	SELL
SWB	031	Alex Wilder		25	SELL
SWB	032	Karolina Dean		55	SELL
DXF	042	Boom-Boom		60	SELL
Force Total:				400	$0.00

The Kree and Sentinel

Force Build 9096313 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
GOTG	017B	Kree General		76	SELL
SWB	059A	Destroyer Thor		125	SELL
GOTG	017A	Kree Lieutenant		45	SELL
GOTG	017A	Kree Lieutenant		45	SELL
GOTG	007A	Kree Private		25	SELL
GOTG	007A	Kree Private		25	SELL
GOTG	007A	Kree Private		25	SELL
GOTG	007A	Kree Private		25	SELL
Force Total:				391	$0.00

You used Boomer! She's one of my faves. The most popular character I write was inspired by her a little bit.

So saw the Far From Home. Not gonna I'm mainly
Seeing it for Spider-mans rogues gallery. Not really a fan of the MCU Iron man Jr. they have peddling.

Got say after playing Mysterio and Hydro-Man from the
Gang war chapters its cool to see our hrs connection with the movies.

I really hope the keep the hammy acting of Mysterios character. Not sure how I feel for a mystical version of the character. Also please be overly dramatic on his entrances.

I have a theory on how Mysterio will play out in the film and if I'm right I spoiled the entire plot for myself so I'm hoping I'm completely wrong.

Best part about being a Spidey fan right now is that you can pick whichever one is your favorite and go with it. Simultaneously having the PS4 game (what a GREAT re-imagining of the Spider-Man story!), Into the Spider-Verse (if you told me chubby, mid-life crisis Peter would be one of my favorite versions ever before I saw that, I'd have thought you were kidding), and MCU (I dig Holland--not the Spidey I usually imagine, but the kid's a hoot to watch on screen)... what a wealth of fun for Spidey fans right now. I love it.

It has been a phenomenal year for my boy Pete. A writer who I have hated since the Secret Empire fiasco has brought back an energy of love back to the ASM title and the return of Peter and Mary Jane.
PS4 Spider-man is my absolute favorite bar none with its
return if the Spider-man 2 movie game web swing mechanic and a great twist and respect to the lore.
Along with the PS4 version, Into the Spider-verse actually made me care and root for Miles Morales. A character in the comics who I found to be bland in every general aspect.

As to MCU I have no trouble with Holland as Spider-man really. He's a great actor who shows a great deal of respect for the character. Its just the MCU'S alteration and removal of so much of Spider-mans rich lore and core beliefs just to distance itself from other Spider-man media, it no longer feels like Spider-man.
And more of a average superhero film.

Going to give this chapter a shot in the hopes of making more time for clix.

Here are the two teams : Write-up to come.

55 SWB032 Karolina Dean
65 SWB041 Spinneret
60 TMNT026 Michelangelo
45 WW015 Donna Troy
44 LG041 Arsenal
80 CWSOP041 Stature
45 SMWW047 Lois Lane
200 WF061 Superman

vs

300 DOFP023 Sentinel Alpha 3
300 DOFP023 Sentinel Alpha 3

Lois Lane watched the Latverian Lancelot slice through the first Sentinel. He did not hesitate in the face of such an awesome foe and simply plunged straight through the robot of mass destruction. Nary a thought, never a doubt. This Superman could likely plunge through the world should he choose. Truly, it was good that he did not work for the Kree. The Runaways took a moment and stared in stunned silence, catching the breath even at it was caught at the sight of the plunging Sentinel. Spinneret knew she had a job to do, she was responsible for turning robots like this to their side, but she could not keep from watching might overcome any form of careful planning they might have had. Karolina Dean shook herself free from the stunning effect of Kristoff's massive attack. This man burned with solar energy. His muscles bulged. He feared no opponent. What did he fear? She would give anything to share his solar might. For just a moment she imagined their starry embrace and trembled. This battle would be glorious.

Mikey watched as Karolina started hovering toward the Superman.

"Always the Turtle, never the boyfriend," he sighed.

Ninjitsu had been good to him. There was nothing he could do to curb a Sentinel attack. He had learned this when he had lost his brothers. Still, he could offer some form of distraction while Spinneret did her work. He moved like a butterfly. He never stopped. Wait... didn't butterflies stop? Well, they made cuccoons. Ali was a funny guy it turns out.

"Youch!" he cried, narrowly avoiding a blast.

This was serious. He was not.

Is this why Karolina never looked his way twice?

First appearance of Spinneret in HRS! I dig it!

Hey Localgod, Welcome back!
Always awesome to see more of the TMNT being used in our story.