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♦Topic: Are You Okay, Brockton Bay?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
WatcherOnTheWalls (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted on April 26, 2011:
Okay, BB, we need to have a chat.
Let's start with a brief recap for those of us who have been living under a rock:
March 26, 1994: Behemoth attacks New York in the single deadliest day in human history at that point. Gold Skull shows up to the fight and somehow proceeds to split Behemoth in half, who then explodes in a detonation that kills an estimated 150,000.
September 5th, 1999: The first Boston Games. Gold Skull, for seemingly no reason other than to be a genocidal maniac, rigs a cluster of bombs across the city to explode. Hero defuses them, enraging Gold Skull and leading to one of the longest cape fights in history. Gold Skull kills Hero after a full 24 hours of fighting. Possibly because he's weakned from the fight, Gold Skull goes underground.
Modern day (2010-2011): Brockton Bay, already a hotspot for capes following an uptick in villains in the late 90s, sees an unprecedented surge in parahuman population. Several of these new capes have 10+ threat ratings, including Omnigirl, Dreadge, and Hero 2 (can we please get a better name for her? We're slacking here guys, come on.)
Which brings us to April 12th, 2011: A bunch of freaky regenerating lizard things start rampaging across Downtown Brockton Bay. PRT ENE is able to put the lid on the situation, but not before a handful of deaths and some property damage. But that's not what's really scary here: several eyewitnesses claim to have seen a "golden man with a skeleton face" choking out a lizard, disintegrating it over and over again, before flying away with said lizard in tow.
Sound like anyone you know?
Now, I'm not typically one to put stock in rumors like this, but this is Brockton Bay we're talking about here. With the surge in powerful parahumans, the possibility of Gold Skull being in town could turn Brockton Bay into a pressure cooker that's about to blow. Shit's a-brewing, folks, and it's not going to be pretty.
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► QuantumPulse
Replied on April 26, 2011:
Okay, no. Hold on a second. We're not seriously entertaining the idea that Gold Skull is back, right? At the very least, that dude would have to be in his 60s by now. The city already has enough to worry about without adding a genocidal maniac into the mix
► phantomlurker92
Replied on April 26, 2011:
Nope, nope, nope. I'm outta here. Just checking, are you alllowed to break your apartment's lease agreement if a superpowered serial killer shows up to town?
► CALCIUM_RATTLER (Banned)
Replied on April 26, 2011:
Gold Skull? HA! What a joke.
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► GhostInTheMachine (Unverified Cape)
Replied on April 26, 2011:
I think people are forgetting just how different the scene is now compared to the 90s. Takeichi? Endstopper? 2ero? The good guys aren't helpless. A coordinated Brockton Bay operating under an S-Class truce could handle GS. (And yes, 2ero is my suggestion for her name. No, I have no idea how you'd say it out loud.)
► Frivolous_Ferret
Replied on April 26, 2011:
@GhostInTheMachine I think you're forgetting that the rest of us are talking about the guy who split an Endbringer in two.
► N_Tha_Mode
Replied on April 26, 2011:
I think we're a little foo focused on whether Gold Skull is or isn't in town. Can we talk about the 100% real, super freaky lizards? Where the fuck did those come from?
► phantomlurker92
Replied on April 26, 2011:
@N_Tha_Mode Hell, I think.
► Bagrat (The Guy In The Know) (Veteran Member)
Replied on April 26, 2011:
@N_The_Mode All of my sources seem to be equally caught off-guard by them, and none of them have any concrete idea what's up. (Failing to live up to my title, I know. I bow my head in shame.) I can confirm that they were packing some serious regeneration, but I can only speculate as to why.
@GhostInTheMachine Two-ro? That being said, it's not unheard of for capes to take the names of dead capes, so just calling her Hero would make sense. People just avoided it until now because of how big of a deal he was.
► N_Tha_Mode
Replied on April 26, 2011:
@Bagrat Indulge us with some speculation?
► Bagrat (The Guy In The Know) (Veteran Member)
Replied on April 26, 2011:
@N_Tha_Mode Well, I think we have to look at it from the lens of two different questions: What made these things, and what gave them their regeneration? My hunch is that we're looking at a Master creating minions, and some sort of Trump/Biotinker giving them regeneration. One to make them and one to buff 'em up, so to speak.
The other possiblity is that these aren't two separate questions, and that the same person who made them also gave them regeneration. In that case... well, let me ask you this: What happened the last time we had someone who could create minions with powers?
I'm hoping it's the first one.
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