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A Finer World Part II (Episode 19):
Earth War Chapter 9: Weirdworld

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
Chapter 17
Chapter 18

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 9: Weirdworld. (Episode 19 of A Finer World.)

Doctor Strange, the Gray, should have been dead. He certainly expected it, after he faced down Thanos alone, and felt the light go out on his world.

Instead, he woke up in another place. A jungle of sorts. Overhead, dinosaur-like creatures drifted on warm winds. A light rain fell, despite there being not a cloud in the sky.

Maybe I am dead, he thought, wondering if his sacrifice had been in vain, if the heroes he'd gathered had been enough. Or if the alien invasion had destroyed the world he'd tried to save, to set right again.

He went to sit up, but a large hand pushed him back to the ground.

"Wizard," the massive, shirtless tank of a man said, preventing him from sitting upright. "Be silent. I know not from what world you came, but you've arrived at just the right time."

"That, my friend, is debatable. You wouldn't happen to know what world this is, do you?"

The big bloke looked at him curiously, but then nodded.

"People arrive here in Weirdworld from far away lands all the time," the warrior said. "I myself am not from here originally, in truth. But I plan on finding my way home. Or taming it. I'm not sure. But I know one thing: I have a battle to fight before then, and I am in need of a wizard."

"Oh," Strange said. Of course he does. "That's lovely. And here I am, a wizard, right when you need on."

"I know! Strange, isn't it? Or weird."

"Both words are, oddly, completely appropriate," Strange said. "How can I help?"

"Monsters have one of my companions," the man said. "I cannot leave this place without my adventuring party intact. No one is to be left behind, you understand?"

"Completely."

"Good. Good! And my party is, as I said, in dire need of a wizard."

Now others slipped out of the jungle around them. An archer, a female warrior, someone who looked particularly shifty. Oh gods, Strange thought. I'm in one of those games, aren't I.

The warrior helped him to his feet and led him to a ridge. Below, Strange saw an encampment. Central to the camp was a cage, though he could not make out who was inside.

"Our final companion is there. Those monsters have him. And we're going to free him."

"We."

"You're our wizard. Are you not?"

Strange sighed.

"I suppose I am. But If I help you, you must return the favor."

The big man clasped a hand on Strange's shoulder.

"Of course! That is what true companions do! What quest do you have for us?"

"I started a quest to save a world," Strange said. "And I need to go back and finish it. You seem like a mighty lot. Perhaps you'd join me in driving back monsters of my own."

"A great war," the big man said. "Little wizard... I have sought a great war for so long. You will have my weapons at your side, if you help me free my friend."

Strange shrugged and rolled up his sleeves.

"Well then," he said. "Let's get to work.

The Scenario: Weirdworld


Point total determined by the players. Recommended: outdoor map, something jungle or forest-y, the more high-fantasy or weird, the better.

Team 1: The Adventurers
Construct a team including the following:
Doctor Strange (Gandalf may be substituted)
One mythical bruiser (think Thor, Hercules, Ares, and the like)
One female melee warrior
An archer
A stealthy character

Team 2: The Monsters
Construct a team made up of monstrous characters. Include one character as the "chief" (higher point total, with leadership, or who is normally portrayed as a leader in comics) and one as the "shaman" (a magic user or something akin to that). Otherwise, fill out as needed.

Objective: Place the trapped hero (to be decided by the players - anyone mythical or fantasy-based will do) in a designated location in the center of the map. The Adventurers can either smash the lock to free him (one attack - must roll 5-6 on a 6d to smash the lock; if the character has super-strength, 4-6). If a character with stealth does so, they may roll to pick the lock (4-6 to unlock). This character joins team 1, but only on Click 3.

The players may either fight to the death or flee. If the latter, the Adventurers win all living characters return to Team 1's starting zone.

Post your results:
Who were your characters?
Who did you rescue?
Did you succeed?
Who lived? Who fell?

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
Mr. Miracle (ally, not full member)
OPTIONAL: Any character on the strike force may add 10 points to their point total and play as if possessing the NOVA CORPS HELMET relic, granting flight, charge, and the Nova Corps keyword.

The Black Order
Thanos
Proxima Midnight
Lobo
Lyssa Drak
Doomsday

Okay I think I got a good team in this one, very excited to play this one!

Team 1

Force Build 9103284 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
ADW	001	Dr. Strange		50	SELL
SWB	036	Elektra		50	SELL
TMT	038	Balder		80	SELL
BTAS	057	Man-Bat		75	SELL
JLTW	100	Roy Harper		115	SELL
Force Total:				370	$0.00

Elektra: female warrior
Balder: deity
Man-Bat: stealth
Roy Harper: archer


Vs



The Monster (Green Tribe)

Force Build 9103284 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	053	Swamp Thing		150	SELL
SWB	042	Jennifer Kale		40	SELL
SWB	027	Man-Thing Commander		66	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
Force Total:				388	$0.00

Chief: Swamp Thing
Shame: Jennifer Kale

Oh, this should be fun. Lemme see what I can build.

Glad you guys dig it. I'm really considering expanding the fantasy/myth-y world more for Part III.

“Intro to Weirdworld”

“No one knows exactly what ‘Weirdworld’ is.” The omniciencent narrator opens as it narrates.

“Some believe it to be where the infamous ‘Bermuda triangle’ leads it’s entrapment of its victims. Others a realm that exist outside time and space.
Or perhaps a sentient realm that has takes away the unwanted and forgotten for its amusement.” She explained.

“But one thing the denizens of this land universally agree upon is that in Weirdworld only the strong, the cunning and the brave can thrive in this savage land.”

“Those that are weak are food for the strong or absorbed into the many tribes of Weirdworld. As several tribes and species form and splinter so to do the savage creatures of this strange land form there own tribes. Like the Lava Men, a race fueled by its burning magma and knowledge of chaos magic lead by Moltar, to its rivals Crystalium a crystallized race of warriors devoted to Order lead by Crystar.“

“Yet some races seek simpler ends where deep within the muddied swamp lands of Weirdworld resides the nomadic sentient plant creatures known as “The Green”. It’s ruler Jennifer Kale seeks to bring peace to Weirdworld through the ways of The Green.”

“While the opposite, the savage dinosaur men and reptilian tribes seek food in their hunger of bloodlust to sate their constantly famished stomachs.”

“But if the tribes don’t kill you perhaps the exotic creatures will, either way good luck.”

I Love this scenario. I haven't had a chance to play it out yet but here are the teams I'm thinking.

Dr. Strange (Earth X Clea + force field as a stand in because i don't own a Strange)
Mythical bruiser: Dino-Thor
Female Warrior: Witch Hunter Angela
Archer: Oliver Queen, Templar
Stealthy character: Elektra

Force Build 9104052 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
EAX	044	Clea		100	SELL
FF	F001	Force Field		10	SELL
SWB	055	Dino-Thor		90	SELL
SWB	044	Witch Hunter Angela		45	SELL
EW	019	Oliver Queen, Templar		80	SELL
FFADW	006	Elektra		75	SELL
Force Total:				400	$0.00

The Monsters

Chief: Maestro
Shaman: Earth X Loki
2 Outriders
Suited henchman is a stand in for just a lowly humanoid on their side

Force Build 9104052 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
SWB	028	Maestro		175	SELL
EAX	058	Loki		150	SELL
SWB	014	Outrider		35	SELL
SWB	014	Outrider		35	SELL
BTAS	005	Suited Henchman		5	SELL
Force Total:				400	$0.00

They are going to try to rescue Arkon or Crystar, I'm undecided

Force Build 9104052 2
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
SWB	043	Arkon		60	SELL
Force Total:				60	$0.00

Force Build 9104052 3
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
SWB	025	Crystar		75	SELL
Force Total:				75	$0.00

I'll update you once i get a chance to run it, hopefully soon.

THE AVENTURERS
fi021 Dr. Strange - 145
fi026 Kuurth - 199
bd004 Hawkgirl - 71
lotr004 Legolas - 130
dp203 Black Cat - 45

TOTAL: 590

THE MONSTERS
ca061 Capwolf - 100
tmnt3024 Sliver - 130
ygo2003 Boar Soldier - 85
ygo2003 Boar Soldier - 85
und005 Werewolf - 40
und005 Werewolf - 40
und005 Werewolf - 40
und005 Werewolf - 40
und005 Werewolf - 40

TOTAL: 600

Rescuing: wf029 Jason Blood


I'm realizing that 3 of the 5 good guys I picked are characters I've tried and failed to get into canon already.

Solid team 2 you have gab, has a very lycanthrope theme to it!

Oh no! I forgot to add a character with "fire" in their name! Well, it was bound to happen eventually

Team 1

Force Build 9105580 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
ADW	001	Dr. Strange		50	SELL
SWB	036	Elektra		50	SELL
TMT	038	Balder		80	SELL
BTAS	057	Man-Bat		75	SELL
JLTW	100	Roy Harper		115	SELL
Force Total:				370	$0.00

Elektra: female warrior
Balder: deity
Man-Bat: stealth
Roy Harper: archer


Vs



The Monster (Green Tribe)

Force Build 9105580 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	053	Swamp Thing		150	SELL
SWB	042	Jennifer Kale		40	SELL
SWB	027	Man-Thing Commander		66	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
SWB	012	Man-Thing Soldier		33	SELL
Force Total:				388	$0.00

Chief: Swamp Thing
Shame: Jennifer Kale

Prisoner

Force Build 9105580 2
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
HQ	055	Giganta		90	SELL
Force Total:				90	$0.00

RESULTS:
Winners: Team 2 Monsters (The Green Tribe)
KO: all of Team 1
Mission result: Failed to rescue companion
MVP: Doctor Strange using his defend special and Swamp Thing.
Occurrence: multiple failures in power actions to release prisoner.

I have teams built. Hoping for time to play the game soon.