Difference between revisions of "Super Heroes Wiki-Prologue"

Revision as of 09:26, 10 June 2008

--Edmiao 21:43, 8 June 2008 (MST)I begin the Supers wiki-prologue. I would say that any and all should edit at will. you may change anything that i have written, delete it, alter it, change a single name, add to it, whatever. If anyone objects to things for specific reasons, discuss on the talk page. I present an outline of thoughts that arose from friday post WW below.

Outline

Viho and Brim are acquainted from archaeological backgrounds - specifically, Stone approached Viho in the past to build him some "special" archaeological equipment. Also, maybe Stone has found some artifacts in Brim that Viho finds technologically interesting (new metals, etc.).

Emir abu-Kaliq hires Brim to do a dig somewhere in africa. In this dig they find a coffin/box which is removed by Emir to parts unknown

Later, during Desert Storm I, Elemental is unleased on the battlefeild. Somehow realizing that this was the thing he dug up, Brim starts to feel bad about giving it to Emir. He contacts Viho to seek aid to take down Elemental.

Together they stop Elemental and find his memory book, and are able to erase or strike out the line that Emir wrote that said "you are the loyal servant of Emir abu-Kaliq." Elemental returns to the states under the stewardship of our heroes.

Somehow, would be good to integrate Gabe's and Deiter's characters into the above as well. feel free to add villians, make setting changes, whatever. general descriptions of the characters would be helpful.

Supers Prequel

Chapter 1: Uneathing an Element

(In which Brim is enlisted by Emir, Elemental unearthed)

Chapter 2: Iraq War - Eruption

On March 20, 2003, a coalition led by the US invaded Iraq. During the lead up to the war, Saddam Hussein was given several opportunities to allow UN weapons inspectors unfettered access to potential weapons facilities. The fact that he did not allow the inspectors in was, in part, evidence that he had significant weapons caches and thus had little to fear from an pre-emptive invasion. Covert US intelligence suggested a possible foundation for this confidence: Iraq had a new weapon.

American intelligence suggests a significant step forward in Iraqi arms in what is initially described as mechanized body armor, but later is seen to be what appears to be a man cloaked in lava (??). It appears that there is only one prototype, but it is unstoppable. On February 2, 2003, the most high tech covert ops (a little help here?) are sent in to neutralize the threat, and are soundly defeated, but yeild valuable intelligence on the threat. Oddly enough, the operator seems to consult an instruction manual frequently when out of combat, as if unfamiliar with the operations of his new armor. This despite the fact that it moves with unimaginable agility for a mechanism of its bulk. Further contributing to the confusion was that this new body armor was never used in combat against US forces, but rather seemed to be concentrating on gaining access to high security Iraqi facilities, actually attacking the red guard. It then left for parts unknown with large boxes of unknown contents, but all indications were that they were extremely heavy. Intellegence speculates that they may be filled with gold pillaged from Kuwait in the first Iraq war a decade earlier. Obviously, all this was kept away from the media.

The locations where this monstrosity had been at large eventually drew some public attention because of the characteristic devastation of the sites. For example, the national precious gems gallery had deep burning foot prints etched into the stone and under the right footprint, a curious rune (ben, i just gave elemental a rune on the sole of his burning right foot...??). Brim was drawn to the coverage, out of academic concern for the irreplacable artifacts held within the museum. But what caught his eye was that rune. Where had he seen it before..... oh shit. On that coffin four years ago that he dug up for that treasure hunter Emir. At the time it seemed like a devils trade, financing in exchange for some minor plundering of a site. But what was the connection?

ALTERNATE

Alternate: Much like any war Iraq was a place of confusion and half truths during the initial steps of the war. Many used the opportunity to further their own personal aims. Rumors started to abound in Iraq and eventually the internet of a "monster". First people posted it was a new American power armor as it seem to attack Iraqi targets, museums, storage houses, and so on. Many Iraqi nomads claimed it was an ancient evil, a golem, a magic weapon from a forgotten time. This lead too many calling it the Dessert Yeti. Eventually however America held a press conference where they confirmed that they had no such powered armor in Iraq matching those specifications. They had no idea what it was but said they thought it was perhaps some sort of overgrown native.

The below stuff seems cool except I thought maybe this could be Brim’s reasoning, I dunno, Brandon you sound off on this.

Brim was pouring over some ancient texts he thought may have a clue to his past when he noticed report about the Iraqi monster/yeti/powered armor. He did some searches on it and found out that in many of the reports the being was reported to have been “on fire”. He had decided to not swindle the artifact he had found for Emir abu-Kaliq, due to the fact that the scanner he purchased couldn’t tell him what was in it and if he broke it open surely his benefactor would know. He did take notice however of the odd markings over the mystery box. While flipping through various blurry cell phone quality images of the beast he stopped on one… a few markings on the beast’s body matched that of those found on the sarcophagus he found. He tried to analyze the data he had found but was never that great at programming.

Feeling a bit guilty, and even more curious, he decided to go to the person who made the scanner…

Chapter 3:

(In which our heroes join the fray and contain/rescue Elemental)

Brim wraked his memory for days trying to discern the true nature of what he had dug up. They had never opened the sarcophagus but had some scans using the ultrasonnographic ground scanner that were so scrambled by the lining of the sarcophagus that he could never decode them. Perhaps he should try again? Or better yet, get some help. Brim had met the fellow who invented the ultrasonnogram at an archaeology conference some years back, and he seemed like a friendly enough chap, was actually genuinely interested in Brim's work at the time (or was suave enough to pretend to be). So, Brim gave Dr. Ciquala a call.

Viho was indeed quite interested in the problem, although the ultrasonnogram had problems with modern metal alloys, it was well equiped to penetrate any materials from the ancient world. With the help of Ami, a programmer in Viho's employ, they were able to reconstruct some of the scans, revealing not a mumified skeleton, but a large humanoid made of some substance that was difficult to discern. And with a characteristic rune on it's right foot.

........little help here folks? or am i way off base?......

Chapter 4: New York, New York

The characters collide in the "capital of the world".