Champions Now Ep. 3: Plague
Between the last gaming session of Champions Now with my daughter and this one, she hatched a pretty inventive plan to help Dark Matter out of her mistaken identity problem. Because the mysterious attacker on Waterford College's campus had similar powers to a character from her graphic novel, a young man named Plague, she decided to ask that character (as basically an NPC) to help her out.
The plan was this: Plague would show up, shoot a video claiming that the attacks on the campus were the work of a rival, and that he had attacked Captain Hollywood in an attempt to hunt down the monster. Furthermore, he would state he was giving up on the chase and leaving town (hopefully getting Hollywood to stop looking for Dark Matter). In turn, Dark Matter would continue looking for the monster.
Things, however, did not go as planned. Plague was captured by Captain Hollywood leaving town. And when Dark Matter freed Plague from UNTIL custody, Captain Hollywood managed to find the monster but ultimately lost to him, getting most of his strength drained away. Now the monster was on a rampage against the police, and Dark Matter and Plague teamed up to stop him (mostly from wrecking the college and ultimately exposing the Guided Studies program). They were able to defeat him, and he was revealed to be a transformed Professor Throckmorton, Dark Matter's mythology professor.
In the epilogue, Plague thanked Dark Matter for helping build his reputation, and alluded to a big plan in the future being hatched by his brothers. Dark Elf bragged at the next class session that she was responsible for transforming Throckmorton as punishment for embarrassing her in class, and in the closing scene Dark Matter was surprised to see a news report about a new superhero in the city, namely herself...
The plan was this: Plague would show up, shoot a video claiming that the attacks on the campus were the work of a rival, and that he had attacked Captain Hollywood in an attempt to hunt down the monster. Furthermore, he would state he was giving up on the chase and leaving town (hopefully getting Hollywood to stop looking for Dark Matter). In turn, Dark Matter would continue looking for the monster.
Things, however, did not go as planned. Plague was captured by Captain Hollywood leaving town. And when Dark Matter freed Plague from UNTIL custody, Captain Hollywood managed to find the monster but ultimately lost to him, getting most of his strength drained away. Now the monster was on a rampage against the police, and Dark Matter and Plague teamed up to stop him (mostly from wrecking the college and ultimately exposing the Guided Studies program). They were able to defeat him, and he was revealed to be a transformed Professor Throckmorton, Dark Matter's mythology professor.
In the epilogue, Plague thanked Dark Matter for helping build his reputation, and alluded to a big plan in the future being hatched by his brothers. Dark Elf bragged at the next class session that she was responsible for transforming Throckmorton as punishment for embarrassing her in class, and in the closing scene Dark Matter was surprised to see a news report about a new superhero in the city, namely herself...
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| Ashley Mason, aka Dark Elf, in her human form. Art by Phil Cho |
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| Dark Elf in her supernatural form. Art by Phil Cho |
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