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"I'm not! How am I...oh, right. Sorry, I didn't mean to! I just don't want people to be mean...Selina, you tell Darnos to be nice!"

"Wh-wh-what d-d-do you w-want to do...?" Selina asks nervously.

"Um, what do you want to do? ...I guess we could go on a date or something? Isn't that what you do with Maria and Matt? And Yuri?"

Victoria continues cuddling Alan.

((Missed that.))
Alan looks at Victoria, confused. You think, or at least assume from Alan's presumed tabula rasa state and lack of activity. Someone should get Alan a bracelet or something.

Vow vengeance. Smack one of them with the meat as I locate a battle to join. To get XP and loot, so I have a chance of doing anything.

He's the guy who destroyed the whole world last time.

Not ringing a bell.

The alternate emotional center was pretty quiet...

"Excellent. First, I'm going to give an overview of the presentation and the subject, which I am most of the way through doing. Next, I will go over the known and unknown members of the Bones, and their powers, strengths, and weaknesses as they are known. After that, I will explain other reasons to be concerned about the Bones. Finally, I will bring up some plans of action to deal with this threat."

Argonaut shifts his arm. On the screen comes a picture of a thin man in a black body suit that has a skeleton pattern on it. It almost looks like a cheap Halloween costume.
"This is Skull, the leader of the Bones. Don't judge by his cover--he possesses a power suited to a horror movie. Skull controls skeletons. His application of this power are controlling the movement of people and corpses, and animating a number of skeletons with simple hinges or springs added to the joints as cheap soldiers. These skeletons are incredibly weak, but difficult to permanently damage them. You must disconnect the joints, firmly enough to prevent the bones from coming back together--or break the bones, which may have once been easier. I will get to this in a moment. As to the control, again until recently only crude physical control was possible. Skull has been recorded as forcing people to strip flesh from their bones, leap off of tall buildings, or even shoot themselves in the head, but keep three things in mind. One: He only controls bones. This makes his movements of you crude at best, and incapable of using many distinctive patterns. Skull cannot control speech, nor can he move your eyes, ears, or other fleshy body parts, nor can he use any powers not constantly active one may possess, except for a few simpler ones such as a few super-strong or -fast individuals, notably Felis Nocht. Onto his psychological profile. Skull is believed to be a megalomaniac to some degree, and is known to have a long view that may well help him achieve his goals. Moreover, he constantly strives to gain more power...and more powers. By hook or crook, or way or pass, he has been getting every parahuman not already associated with some team and several who are to join the Bones. Recently, he has been successful often as not, with a sudden influx of new capes. One has to wonder why...but this is for later."

A pause. (Mostly to help break up what would otherwise be a ginormous Wall of Text, but it also gives PCs a chance to comment on each section.)

Lets start practical with our pirate lair. We need an uninhabited island, with a nice harbor with a large sea cave, so we can stash our boat. We can turn our prisoners into miners, and have them go around building our quarters and vault.

+1

Then we'll kill them.

Um.

I still think the most practical start is to capture and co-opt some settlement of some monsterous race nobody would care to protect. Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Gnolls, Orcs, ect. That way we wont have to build as much. I'm sure we will be able to perform a few raids and rack up a good deal of money before anybody cares enough to come after us on our own turf, so hidden would be nice but not essential.

How would we control them when we were out?

I'm putting my WIP flock here:

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Expert. Rolled, best four out of 5d6, REALLY well for stats, so he's our numbers man.
Fighter 1.
Fighter 2.
Fighter 3.
Should I take a cleric too for utility?

Or a diviner. We have a Numbers Man, we could use a Contessa.
...One of us needs to find some spell, class ability, or something that lets us be Cauldron. Tell me that wouldn't be awesome.

I'm going to say no, because that way you have to do a bit more tactical construction.

That's a silly reason.
Oh, and I started playing with the timestamp. What fun.

I am the Way, the Test, and the Life.

Dammit.

It's all been claimed by one of the two empires. They let Wavebreak be though, because it isn't good practice to desecrate mystic temples, especially one's who have lots of connections, and Rickshaw is the favorite hangout spot of most explorers, pirates, privateers, adventurers, and such, so it's crazy hard to actually assault directly. Also, any more monstrous populations still standing haven't been worth subjugating yet (and are far away enough from the Sil-Merrion).

No private/noble/etc ownership of small islands, etc?

CAN I HAVE A WYRMLING FOR A THRALL?

...
Better not be metallic.

And there's no point recruiting from the standard "Civilised/good" races, besides, that's just boring, I mean, we got a whole variety of different creatures and you want humans?

* Taricus keelhaul's scriver

Anyway, anyone on team evil, please restate your ship fund contributions, I'll put it in a text file and PM Remuthra the link so he can edit it into the OP so we don't keep scrabling around to find all that money.

I still need to figure out what I'm buying for myself...

Ooh, Storage Co.