From: earl@cco.caltech.edu (Earl A. Hubbell)
Subject: Son of Champs on the Run
Keywords: Champions
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 08:02:16 GMT


	More of the 'Champs on the Run' campaign:
	I posted a short description of the campaign before - this posting
builds on the first one, although it stands on its own.  Now that the
thread of 'what are your campaigns like' has returned...

	The B-movies are true - aliens are among us, experimenting on
helpless college-age people to give them paranormal abilities, infiltrating
the military, running the IRS, and mind-controlling people into writing
blank checks (well, not >all< of those...).  While the premise and
some of the cliches are a little humorous, and the players have fun,
there is a certain amount of serious plot and roleplaying going on...
and loosely logical reasons for the weird alien plots, when you
look at them from the right perspective...
	The players did >not< get to design their characters - they
designed normal people, who then had extraordinary things happen
to them...

The first 7 adventures were listed in the previous post...

#8: Aliens in Texas:  Two Texas A&M students gain paranormal abilities,
and proceed to cause a commotion - aliens replace about 50 people by
robots in an attempt to cover up, and the FBI sends their paranormals
in to recruit/stop the aliens.  The team encounters a 'Mil-Spec' Daxamite,
and are terrified enough to still live in fear, even although he's
unconscious, behind lead shielding, and carefully monitored.

"Have you noticed anything unusual?" - Clarisse
"Besides reading thoughts?" - Howie

"The US Army is infiltrated by aliens." - Clarisse
"No way!" - J.D.
"Why do you think we lost Viet Nam?" - Clarisse

"I'm >not< an alien!" - Diana
"How do you know this?" - J.D.

"Am I a robot?" - Diana, after an interview with an alien psychologist
who was stealing people and replacing them with robot duplicates.

"We should probably do something because turning people into robots
is probably a Federal crime." - Ace

"How do aliens get all the good houses?" - Clarisse

"Move fast?" - Clarisse
"Yes." - Ace
"Strong?" - C
"Yes." - Ace
"Tough?" - C
"Yes." - Ace
"Beams from eyes?" -C
"Not yet." - Ace

#9: 'The Amusement Park Bandit'
	John Hart acquires precognitive powers, along with laser eyes,
and proceeds to terrorize Disneyland, Sea World, and various other
amusement parks, in an effort to find paranormals.  He does, as
the slightly annoyed FBI catches up to him.

"Where do I start? Governments are easy to find - wackos are hard!" -Hart

#10: 'Lost Son of Krypton'
	A small town, the middle of Kansas - a man falls from the sky,
is found unconscious in a crater, apparently unscratched.  Awakening
with no memory, he discovers he is not like other men - to him great
power is given - superstrength, speed, invulnerability, X-ray vision...
they're not as great as the comix, but they're about the right scale
for him to be 'Superman's son'.  Assuming the name of Kent Jordan,
he seeks the vanished heroes of Earth...

"This one doesn't have deep-fat fry - set it to maximum mertilize" - Ace

"How did you find us?" - Diana
"We followed the flying saucer!" - Clarisse

#11: 'Hicks versus Aliens'
	A backwater area of Lousiana is terrorized by aliens...but
it's really just an 'inconspicuous' distress call from a long-buried
flying saucer...

"Maybe they don't see the way we do - maybe they're just stupid." -Ace

"Clearly these people need better dance music." - Ace
"That's why they've come to Earth!" - Dave

<"WE LOCKED OUR KEYS IN THE FLYING SAUCER - DO YOU HAVE A COATHANGER
WE COULD BORROW?"> - 'translated' from the alien mime...

"It's probably an old dialect of alien." - Ace.

#12: 'Max Jones, Man of Steel'
	The FBI has succeeded in tracking down Tolkov and Masters (the
mad scientists creating paranormals) - they want the paranormals around
when they make contact...and a good thing, too, since 'Tolkov' and
'Masters' turn out to be robot duplicates.  An interrupted transformation
leaves Max Jones permanently trapped in a steel body.

#13: 'Copely Woods?  Where's that?'
	Yet more investigation by the FBI into alien kidnappings pays
off - a family being subjected to an unknown form of experimentation
by aliens is rescued from their plots.

#14: 'The Awful Truth'

"It's surprising - you wouldn't expect an evil mind-controlling
alien leader to be a sensitive human being." - Clarisse
"Yes - but my job requires me to be sensitive." - Freddy

	Clarisse holds a baby shower for her new baby 'daughter' (really
a clone) - unexpected guests drop in, in the form of a top-ranking
alien defector with a warning, his Daxamite bodyguard, and a robot
assistant.  The warning:  Earth is about to be invaded, specifically
Australia.  The aliens are going to come in, use only Earth-maximum
technology, and demonstrate forcibly why their culture is superior...
They have two months, and only a handful of paranormals, versus
an army of Daxamites, mind-controlling 'officers', and 'scouts'.
Why is he here?  It seems that he wasn't picked to organize the 
invasion and conquer Earth - so he's going to show up the guy who
>was< picked...

"Plus, if you have superheroes, who needs clowns?" - Kent

"Drink Coca-Cola or Die!" - example of cultural conquest taken
too far...

"Did I hear Clarisse proposing for someone else to become more
moral?" - Ace
"I think she's still drugged." - Nate
"It's better for me if everyone else is moral!" - Clarisse

"This is Radio Free Earth." - the short form of the plan
to reverse the cultural conquest...

"And then I'll meet world leaders, and they'll agree to help us." - Freddy
"Are you going to do unethical things to their minds?" - Diana
"Do you want the Earth conquered by aliens?" - Freddy

"If we could fly, and were humble, we'd be perfect." - Kent, on Daxamites.

-- 
Earl Hubbell - earl@tybalt.caltech.edu - Opinions solely mine.
"Talet a:r ta:nkandets bo:rjan och slut.  Med tanken fo:ddes talet.
Uto:fver talet na:r tanken icke." - Go:sta Mittag-Leffler.
"Number is the beginning and the end of Thought.  Number was born with Thought.