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With Pepper, honestly, I find those interactions fun (but by sheer virtue of all the plates Im spinning with Pepper, I havent had the chance to get more than a handful), because Pepper is so self-serious, and Patch is just not having any of that. He calls her out on her goo clumps, which are the solidified sweat drops that her weird, internal body chemistry leaves lying around Zonn Zorr. But dont worry; Patch has a solution; he drew designs up and everything. Yeah, Patch drew a napkin on a napkin; its just a squarebut its still somehow the funniest little quirk of how proud he is of his drawing. And you know what? It was kinda useful. Patch gave Pepper the idea for his Patchented Sock Napkins, which Ive actually had to use once to negate a Nat 1 on Peppers notoriously-bad sneaking. She even gave a sock napkin to Pixie as a gift, but Pixie wasnot amused.

Of course, all of this pales in comparison to Patchs relationship with Data, which is the focal point of Patchs story in the campaign. On Datas end of things, Data has developed a crush on his little rat best friend, and this has complicated matters, because is being a heartbreaker with Pixie (and Starro by proxy), while simultaneously cockblocking T.C. from either his fellow cat, or the prim and proper Pixie. All of this is because Data just wants to cuddle and snuggle and be with Patch, but isnt sure how to process his feelings, or even if his feelings should be acknowledged in favor of more natural boy/girl or dog/dog relationships. Of course, the fact that Data would so much as hint at loving a rat has driven Pixies character development, and she finds it appalling and disgusting that not only would a mighty warrior dog like Data defer to a rat, but lower himself to romancing such a lowly creature. Someone get Pixie a fainting couch, quick!

Beyond the relationship stuff (which you know is my jam), Data has pushed Patch into a leadership position to control the Big Troubles gang, and its really cute and sweet. This isnt a tough gang that actually accomplishes much (well, aside from Datas Christmas one-shot, where they found a missile and traded the missile to Miss Waller for a secret base in the steam valve assembly). Its mostly just Data trying to coerce Patch into doing stuff by calling him boss, but Patch takes his role very seriously and ultimately overrules some of the smarter efforts Data makes to control things in his favor. Patch is the one handling most of the tryouts for the team, and is actually taking it seriously, while Data plays favorites, for example. Its just amusing, because if you tell someone theyre the leader long enough, theyre going to start taking that seriously and doing what THEY want. Its just amusing to see an ego building in such a tiny creature.

Ultimately though, all of that is great, but its just a combination of everything we get from Patch that lands him so high on this list. His cute little non-sequiturs and inability to keep a secret because he blasts his thoughts out loud and proud and fun little character quirks, and it just brings a smile to my face whenever someone uses one of the two Patch emojis to indicate a direction that Patch is either pointing or reaching. Hes a vital part of the campaign, and makes for a solid mascot without any real drawbacks to his time.

Hint for #7: Has darker-colored hair.

I think Minerva specifically didn't have any of the items suggested by Rex. And Hector was on Riev's solo team in campaign 1 - Artemis had Brutale.

Guessing Star...Stay...St... Dammit Vis!

Roulette

I think it's important that Pixie does not know that Data actually likes Patch the most (romance-wise), and I think it's probably best that it stays that way. Starro can take care of herself... But I always worry about my boi on the other hand, especially if Pixie learned that fact.

At this point tho I don't think it matters. Patch has THOROUGHLY shut down Data 7 in that regard. So none of the above party has to really worry about that anymore. Except Data 7, I suppose, who will be forever sad :(

I do love how both Rex and Patch made your top 10 though. Good stuff!

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I think Minerva specifically didn't have any of the items suggested by Rex. And Hector was on Riev's solo team in campaign 1 - Artemis had Brutale.

Yeah, and scar made it really humorous by having Patch asking for specific things that could have helped them out, and all of them being things that Rex had the others bring.

My memory is bad, okay? ;_;

Okay this is the joke suggestion because its fire

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7. La Dama

I said it with Cheshire and I certainly said it with Amanda Waller, but I LOVE a badass bitch that takes charge and gets things done. La Dama fits that category to a tee, and while weve gotten more CONTENT from Waller due to her close proximity, I feel like La Dama did more in her short time as one of the Convoy leaders (and even stepping up to assert her political dominance since connecting with Checkmate and moving into her tower in Zonn Zorr). Obviously, Waller and La Dama are both top ten characters on my list, but theres just that little bit of edge to La Damas character that gets her the nod overall for me.

Before I get into the meat of the write-up though, I need to rewind time a little bit and discuss Campaign One. This isnt an instance of La Dama being a character from No Mans Land or anything, but rather my mindset in these campaigns as a whole, to perhaps better illustrate where I came from in my initial assessment of her character. First and foremost, while I enjoy many aspects of DC, when it comes to heroes, your mileage can vary and I can understand a debate between them and Marvel. However, when it comes to villains, there is nothing in Marvel that stands up to the diversity of DCs rogues gallery. When it comes to interacting with and working with criminals, barring the outright irredeemable personas, its just more fun to consider that in a non-canon storyline, rather than sticking with the more obvious and heroic route.

That first campaign, one of Talis core traits revolved around the fact that she was the daughter of Ra Amun-Ka, a Pharaoh so malicious and despised that his legacy was buried and erased from history books, left only as a scary story to tell children. Keep in mind, the only living legacy Ra Amun-Ka was Tali herself, and as such, she became focused on rebuilding her family name is a positive and heroic way. And because she was treating No Mans Land as an opportunity to repair HER legacy, she (in her naivete and general lack of Gotham knowledge) believed in her hearts of hearts that the villains of Gotham would rise to the occasion when the chips were down, and it was almost her duty to give them the biggest benefit of the doubt possible.

Between Talis mindset and MY mindset, it led to the ONE time last campaign where I had an emotional breakdown because Talis zealotry amplified my own desire to work with villains to the point where I just about got her kicked out of the Clocktower by trying to convince Oracle that her dad was the bad guy in the cold war between Jim Gordon and Two-Face. Thats the kind of passion I have for proper DC villains, and its one place where I feel like Im somewhat detached from the other players, in that I kinda WANT to be morally gray and evil. I feel like at their cores, most of the other PCs are coming from a place of wanting to be heroes and occasionally having to bend the rules in spite of their ideals, whereas I embrace the villainy aspect a bit more, to my own detriment as a player. This, of course, led to me playing a drug dealer in Campaign Two.

All of that lead up is to show where my general mindset is going into my first encounter with La Dama. I was not on the first mission of the El Paso/Juarez/Convoy storyline, and as such, I did not meet La Dama right away. She met the initial party and offered a massive bounty for dealing with a wave of destructive beetles, but really, the focus of that first mission shifted to the back end, when the party met up with Jaime and his coyote friends, and they witnessed him being aggressively transformed into the Blue Beetle. Still, there was enough initial context to know that, while La Dama is certainly a powerful businesswomanpowerful enough to keep in the Societys good graces without actually joining themshe wasnt a SUPERVILLAIN or anything like that, and at least her goal had a positive end result for your average person in the city. Thats the first key trait needed to make an interesting bad guy that you kinda want to see succeed character in these campaigns for me.

Anyway though, I did not actually meet La Dama for a while after that first mission, although I certainly got invested in the plot due to Peppers Texas roots. We dealt with the beetles (to an extent), but it was largely suggested by most of the NPCs not under La Damas employ that shes horrible and we shouldnt want to work with her. This negative portrait continued being painted by the idea that La Dama controlled the hospital Jaimes mom worked at, and she would be fired if she helped anyone who La Dama perhaps did not want to receive medical attention. The whole city lived under the thumb of La Dama as a drug kingpin, is what Im saying. However, we soon traveled to Juarez, and while some players got onboard with La Llarona, I quickly identified her as a fucking irrational and emotional lunatic who perhaps wasnt the best judge of character when it came to whom we aligned ourselves with.

As the plotline continued on, we found ourselves dealing with the city of Warpath, and shit went south in a horrible way. I still blame myself entirely for the death of Taliesin, which marked the first PC death in either campaign. Keep in mind, this was early enough in the campaign that we were actually able to solidly continue a storyline week after week after week without having to directly plan for it (or just getting caught in a multi-session mission). We finished Warpath, and one week later, our same party (minus Taliesin) was right back to dealing with El Paso bullshit with La Dama and those opposing La Dama. We finally got around to dealing with another large chunk of beetles by blowing up a building (in comedy of errors due to an unfortunate Nat 1), which was enough to earn a modicum of La Damas respect, and give Pepper the chance to finally meet her in person. This is where our story really begins, because there are not a lot of characters that I can honestly say made a bigger splash in my first encounter with them.

I want to again make it very clear that the session Im about to refer to came within one week of Warpath, where a PC was killed (for the first time in two campaigns) as a direct result of me making a really bad decision that I still feel guilty about to this day. And one week later, I met La Dama for the first time. Prior to this meeting, we interacted with some of her underlings at the El Paso police station, one of whom had seemingly printed out a picture of Texan superhero El Diablo, while giving us a story that hed be captured by the Society. This stood out to us enough that, when we finally got to meet with La Dama, locked inside her limousine, the subject came up. Bloodfruit asked a question about El Diablo, which made La Dama suspicious, and this came back on Pepper with the lie of Yeah, Peppers from Texas so she knows all about El Diablo.

Again, we were locked in La Damas limousine, and we were trying at that point to get information that would allow us to rescue Traci Thirteen from La Dama siphoning away her magic; we were not the ones in control of this situation. And the second Pepper became the focus of this El Diablo discussion, La Dama did not waste any time. She immediately pulled out a knife and insisted that Pepper slice her own wrist open. In that moment, there were so many thoughts and emotions going through my head that it was almost impossible to process. One: is she telling me to kill myself? Two: Im gonna get acid blood all over the floor of her limo and thats just gonna piss her off. Three: this woman is a monstrous psychopath and we should just kill her. Four: if we just kill her, Tracis fucked and all of this, including Taliesins death will have been for nothing.

Ultimately, my brain settled on going along with what she wanted, but filing La Dama under fuck this bitch. Pepper sliced open her wrist and La Dama was IMMEDIATELY fucking investigating that shit. It wasnt for acid purposes, because Pepper was clutching that wrist like her grip was a tourniquet and focusing all her willpower of keeping her blood normal. But after a thorough investigation, La Dama determined Pepper was clean and immediately began grilling us about where wed REALLY heard El Diablos name from. In the immediate aftermath of this woman FORCING A PC TO SELF-HARM, we naturally didnt want to get anyone in trouble, but Officer Ybarras name came out all the same. There was no hesitation at that point; La Dama drove like a bat out of hell to the police station, entered, and shot Yolanda in the head, no questions asked.

Up until this point, I cannot stress enough that every action La Dama had taken since Id met her was one of a monster and a crime boss that we absolutely did not want to be involved with. We had Jaime back at Zonn Zorr and he was a good guy, and we knew La Dama was doing some truly heinous shit. No matter HOW psychotic La Llarona was, it seemed like the decision between the two women was clear. But then that light switch flipped in an instant when La Dama carved off Yolandas hand and revealed the saline solution and wiring within. Officer Yolanda Ybarra had been an OMAC the whole time, infiltrating La Damas organization as the OMACs are wont to do. Suddenly, her actions were not those purely of a mafiosa trying to flex her muscles and intimidate us, but rather those of an extremely shrewd and intelligent woman who didnt become a massive player in the drug trade by playing fast and loose with her own protection.

That whole scenario changed everything for me, because even though Pepper was terrified of this woman, and still reeling from having to slash open her own wrist, it all tracked from a logical perspective. The OMACs are clearly a massive threat, both with their offensive capabilities and their sleeper cell potential, and yet here is a non-Society crime boss who is actively working up plans to ferret out OMACs and deal with them accordingly. For someone like Pepper, for whom intelligence and rationality are often times paramount in whether or not she feels like she can work with a person, La Dama instantaneously proved herself a solid ally to have around. For the rest of the party? Not so much. Spirit and Bloodfruit were more neutral, and Brennus fucking hated her guts (in large part due to the Traci stuff, and later because it came out that La Dama had killed one of La Llaronas children). But that complexity for an interesting character and an interesting storyline.

This became the big issue with the El Paso storyline, because at that point, myself and MI were largely at adds with how to proceed. I was very much in favor of La Dama and he was very much against her. You can honestly tell that we hit a snag because after about three or four weeks in a row of the storyline, it took us several months afterwards to finally get back and reach a conclusion. It did not help that during this time, we pieced further information that painted La Dama in a very negative light. La Llarona used to be a woman named Maria Salvaje who was an outspoken critic of La Damas criminal enterprises in El Paso, and La Dama set fire to her house in an effort to silence her. However, beyond just killing Maria, one of Marias children was in the house and died as well. Suddenly, La Dama was the child-killer kind of mafiosa (no matter how accidental this incident may have been).

Granted, La Llarona got her revenge once she was reborn as a magical water spirit, killing La Damas child and putting the two women into a stalemate. Ever the one to dig that knife in deeper though, La Dama had Marias OTHER daughter put up for adoption. Given that she already controlled the police and justice system, it was easy enough to grant a boon to a criminal dealing with a trumped-up traffic violation. Thus, Berto Reyes was granted clemency in exchange for adopting Marias daughter: thus giving us Milagro Reyes. Those of you paying attention at home might realize that this means Jaime suddenly has a direct connection to La Dama, as she essentially gifted him his little sister as a means of spiting Maria Salvaje.

This was ultimately the line of attack we planned on using, trying to convince an emotionally-driven La Llarona to back down from her complete and utter destruction of El Paso, to avoid harming her own daughter. La Dama took a more direct approach, driving to the Reyes familys home and forcibly bringing them to the border, where she could face down La Llarona in-person. Now, while we succeeded in our negotiations due to an absolutely CLUTCH Nat 20, it still could have been supremely easy for La Llarona to just lash out and end La Dama right then and there. Despite having minor magical abilities, La Dama cant compare to a literally water spirit of vengeance. But once again, La Dama didnt get as far as she has in life by playing stupidly.

Upon introducing La Llarona to her estranged daughter, Milagro, when it seemed like she wasnt completely onboard with our team-up plan, La Dama pulled out a small device, and suddenly, we all heard a beeping noise. This bracelet that Milagro had worn her entire life, since being adopted into the Reyes family, began pinging. Thats odd. And thats when La Dama pulled her ultimate trump card: when passing Milagro along to the Reyeses, shed equipped Milagro with a bomb bracelet like a member of the goddamn Suicide Squad, and said bracelet WOULD detonate if La Damas were to stop beating. In that moment, despite all her efforts to feign aloofness, La Llarona crumbled; she wasnt going to let her daughter die to achieve her revenge. Effectively, La Llarona was cowed by La Dama.

EVERYTHING about this storyline was amazing to me, because La Dama is just THE boss bitch of the campaign thus far. She has fucking balls of steel, and she succeeds on the back of intense levels of planning and intelligence that impress the shit out of an analytical character like Pepper (and myself, who is basically Pepper minus the drug stuff). I didnt even mention the massive power move La Dama pulled in making an alliance with Waller. We wanted to free Traci, and La Dama okayed this, so long as we ensured that Waller and Checkmate would fully back her ascension to power after the world was freed from Darkseid. This is a woman already making plans and already preparing for the best possible outcome, and shes gonna be the next president of Mexico if we have anything to say about it. Oh, and just in case you were wondering (because it is a monstrous thing to do), the bracelet? Not really a bomb. It was a complete bluff on La Damas part, because again, balls of steel.

Admittedly, her role in the Convoy was a bit lower key, because the Convoy was much more about the events blocking our path, rather than interpersonal conflict. Still, she had some great moments, like going toe-to-toe with Bane once her joined the team, and sending her Blackrock off to face down his female counterpart, secure in the knowledge that only one would be coming back alive, which eliminated a variable to her plans. And this all capped off with her and La Llarona fighting side-by-side to defend our final fortress long enough to help the refugees escape to Zonn Zorr. Shed already planned ahead for this scenario as well, convincing Saoirse to help her gain a method to ensorcel La Llarona in the event such a trap became necessary. With a magic acorn, she seemingly betrayed a weakened La Llarona and sucked her into captivity like a goddamn Suicune. And when we were safely out of harms way? She let her go, just to show that she could, and that La Llarona owed her (La Dama) her fucking life. Power fucking move right there.

Since then, La Dama has become Peppers partner in the drug trade, using her contacts to help spread some of Peppers product throughout the Society. La Damas just such an imposing and intimidating figure, yet I cant help but be drawn to her time and time again. Shes so intriguing, and its a shame that she almost feels unapproachable now that were back in Zonn Zorr, because I really want to get more from her. Well have to see what happens, because Im pretty sure Brennus is still contracted to directly kill her and fulfill his promise to La Llarona. It couldve been his chance, during the Kobra attack, but La Dama skates through another day. You know what they say: if you come as the queen, you best not miss. La Dama and Waller are BOTH examples of that thinking, and naturally, it gets them into my top ten.

Hint for #6: Is highly associated with a color.

why is every hint black alice

this is too low for your ranking for her

Best write-up you've ever done. I think it really made me feel some pride in the complexity of El Paso.

Oh, and I'll go with Starsa.

scarletspeed7 posted...

Best write-up you've ever done. I think it really made me feel some proud in the complexity of El Paso.

<3

La Dama didn't convince Saoirse to pawn over the acorn. Data 7 was making a deal for acorn in exchange for access to Charaxes. Saoirse then bartered the acorn over on the idea that her deal to protect La Dama from La Llorona was considered complete.

also starsa

Vis asked for more commentary so I will also comment that, while Saoirse finds Patch as a talking rat immensely interesting, she treats him more like a friend

Random aside, I appreciate when you note a memorable dice roll in a writeup. I love being able to reminisce on a devastating or miraculous roll in campaigns I've played.

Cody11533 posted...

Random aside, I appreciate when you note a memorable dice roll in a writeup. I love being able to reminisce on a devastating or miraculous roll in campaigns I've played.

ooh this will be fun

Let me take you back to campaign 1, with my character, Alexander "Fields" McKenzie. Fields had a Clayface baked into him which turned his body composition into sand, and gave him Earth Manipulation powers. It also gave him the weakness (all powers have weaknesses) of, whenever I would roll a nat 1, Fields would turn into sand.

So I don't remember the exact details, but Roz'etta was really pissed at Fastbreak, and Tali wanted to calm down Roz'etta so she lit up her fire, scaring Roz'etta, and basically betraying her entire being, so Roz'etta went to the Gazette where Fields was playing the Entertainer.

Anyway, Roz'etta opened up to Fields, hurt because Tali betrayed her love by using fire. Fields asked her why she was afraid of fire and she said that her fear was just a part of her. It's like asking why Artemis has a tongue. Or why Fields has arms.

So Fields raised his arms up, I rolled for Earth Manip, got a nat 1, and his arms dissolved into sand.

"You were saying?"

Needless to say, it made Roz'etta laugh and happy and it's how Fields became Roz'etta's best friend. Somehow I willed a nat 1 into existence. It was beautiful.

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6. Star Sapphire Starsa Ring

I just ranked Patch a few spots below this one, and Starsa fills a very similar role in the campaign. If Patch is the returning character from Campaign One that serves as our overall mascot for the Scarletspeed7 Cinematic Universe, then Starsa is the mascot for Campaign Two overall. In that regard, Starsa edges out Patch just a LITTLE bit on my overall list, because she just has that little something extra to push her over the edge as a well-rounded (no pun intended) character that I dont think any of us expected when we were introduced to this sentient ring very early on in the campaign.

One of our earliest missions in the campaign involved traveling to Atlanta to meet up with an FBI resistance cell who could provide us with a thumb drive of information to further expand our network of knowledge in the face of the Equation having wreaked havoc on computer systems worldwide. The party took care of this simply enough (though they DID need to amputate a mans arm that had been taken over by the OMAC nanites), but we still had a great deal more to do in the city. Atlantas a big place, after all, and its a major hub of activity. So, we went back soon after and met with our FBI contacts, who were still seeking a means of disabling a dome over the city which was trapping cancerous energy from a Kryptonian super cancer. This dome had been created by a Star Sapphire, and thus is became a high priority to bring it down and free the people of Atlanta from the threat of Kancer.

The mission itself went a variety of places, mostly involving bad drivers and the introduction of the Church of Blood storyline, but ultimately, we reached our end goal. After fending off an army of Billy Numerouses (Billy Numeri?), we found ourselves face-to-face with Deborah Darnell, aka Star Sapphire. We tried to reason with her at first, but when youre a Star Sapphire, you wind up being somewhat irrational and unreasonable when it comes to your overall mission of using love as a weapon. She had us dead to rights, and was only willing to let us escape with our lives because to do otherwise would go against her loving prime directive, but then she fucked up in a massive way.

Deborah began shit-talking the Spectre, acting like she was more powerful than him and just generally blaspheming in a very anti-Ten Commandments sort of way. That was enough to get her on his shit list, and despite our efforts to save her (mainly Pepper accidentally thwacking her in the head with a thrown weaponI think it was my frisbee weapon), the Spectre pretty much wrecked her shit. I dont remember exactly whether he bit her in half, or just crushed her in a massive fist, but the end result was the same either way: a brutal and gruesome death for a villain who really shouldve just kept her mouth shut, and everything wouldve been okay. However, with Deborahs death, this left her accompanying ring without an owner, and with Earth encapsulated in a protective net by the Green Lantern Corps, there was no way for her to escape and return home to be reassigned to a new host.

With Starsa homeless and alone, Saoirse took her in, letting Starsa get comfortable in her pack, and Starsa quickly joined the ranks of supposedly inanimate objects with delightful personalities inhabiting Zonn Zorr (although I THINK Starsa was the first NPC to fit this description). So yeah, we have Twiggy (Saoirses wand familiar), Radio Tuner, Super Cycle, Duocide, and Starsa reigns supreme as the best of them (okay, MAYBE Twiggys better, but Twiggys also technically a PC character, and thus he doesnt make this sort of list). In the early days, we could always count on Starsa to scan any and all residents of Zonn Zorr, and shed provide her unique brand of color commentary (that pun IS intended) as to whether or not the person in question would be a suitable host to replace Deobrah. This made for funny situations where people had to question why they were unsatisfactory, but it also gave us some inconvenient options to serve as a new Star Sapphire: blind fortune teller Madame Xanadu, dead (but perhaps soon to be resurrected) Sue Dibny, Fury-fied Wonder Woman, and most recently, Greek God of Love himself, Eros (which Starsa went insane over, even beyond her standard attitude, trying to enlist Nikhto to hold Eros down for her).

If Starsa only served a utility role in this manner, shed still likely make the list, but shed also likely end up in a similar spot to fellow inanimate object Radio Tuner. Dont get me wrong; shes EXTREMELY useful in a utility role, since she does more than just tell us Star Sapphire potential. Since she comes along on almost every mission (specifically to scan for potential hosts), Starsa is also capable of serving as a mobile tactical device, providing data on various foes we might face, to better understand the methods through which we can best defeat them. She also tries her best to help in other ways, namely using her small lifting ability (or if shes REALLY feeling daring, her glowy Star Sapphire powers) to perform actions in combat and help us out.

However, shit got real for Starsa when our team hit Coast City for the second time. The first time, we were distracted by the fact that we knew Zatanna was in the city, and then we went searching for Hal Jordans air base (and by association, Carol Ferris air base). Starsa, in attendance, was very eager to explore and locate the source of Star Sapphire energy she could sense in the city. She assumed this was likely from her partner Star Sapphire power battery. But when our team returned to the city and investigated further, we discovered that the power battery had been abused and warped and destroyed in an effort by the Society to craft a new Star Sapphire for their own, nefarious purposes. Starsa was heartbroken over this revelation. Not only was her partner dead, but without her accompanying battery, Starsa herself would soon run out of energy, and would also die.

From this point on, one of the primary goals of the campaign became finding a way to get into space, and return Starsa to Zamaron, where she could replace her lost battery and continue living. During this period, we had a ticking clock element, as there was a hard, real world deadline in which to find a solution to Starsas problem. By this point, most of the campaign was enamored by Starsa, and at the very least didnt want her to die on our watch, so there was a push to force our way into the center of the Earth to reach Skartaris, and then utilize Skartaris as a means for projecting ourselves through space to escape the Green Lantern net and reach the Guardians homeworld (and the home of the Green Lantern Corps). After a few snags, we finally got a spaceship, and from there, it was smooth sailing to reach Zamaron and save our friend. It was a LOT of work to rescue Starsa, but it was decidedly worth it.

But beyond that, Starsa has rapidly grown into an independent personality in her own right. It started with her kinda getting lumped in with Data 7 and his little animal gang, since they were off having their own misadventures at first, and Starsa (being small) fit right in. Also, Patch has an OBVIOUS crush on her, constantly trying to reach out (Parchreach) and catch her, while asking if hes improved his potential for Star Sapphire partnership. I feel like Starsa doesnt notice this crush though, so she just humors him in a very matter-of-fact fashion, repeating the same percentage over and over again every time he asks How about now? This who plot point is somehow MORE amusing, because it loops Starsa into a BIZARRE web of romantic entanglements among the Big Troubles (and Big Troubles-adjacent) membership. Patch likes Starsa, but Data 7 likes Patch, but Pixie and Starro like Data 7, but T.C. likes Pixie. And meanwhile, Starsa has a little crush of her own (it seems) on Nikhto. The whole thing is just amusing, and great for the kinds of romantic drama I live for.

Additionally, Starsa (like Patch before her) has this sort of childlike innocence to her as a character. Every experience she has is brand new, and its like shes absorbing information with each passing day, to better understand the people around her. Often times, shell spout new information like its some secret that no one else knows (even though we either DO definitely know it, or its completely inaccurate). The reaction to this inevitably leads to a rather dejected Starsa tilting downwards and getting all sullen. She just wants to help us out, and how dare we make her feel bad for doing so!

This is one of my favorite aspects of Starsas personality though, because even though she has a voice, and she can talk in varying levels of excitement and sadness, its the fact that she can emote through physical actions as a sentient, floating ring. Admittedly, a lot of the examples I can think of are more recent (since arriving on Oa), but still, its really cute. When Starsa got imprisoned by the Green Lanterns (for fear of the Star Sapphires as an invading force), she got trapped in a little green bubble, and would constantly express her fear and sadness with a series of little bonk bonks against the inside of her prison. When shes fearful or angry about something, she buzzes, and when shes happy or has a secret (like various PCs secret crushes), she jingles. She also has a habit of asserting herself through bonks against peoples chests, letting them know she means business. Its a lot like Pixie, in a way, except Starsa is still completely cute and nave, and hasnt gotten the same kind of bratty energy.

Honestly, I feel bad not having more to say, because Starsa is just Starsa. Shes a character you have to see to believe, and shes adorable whenever she gets screentime (which is often). With a friendly Hi there!, she makes her presence known, popping up whenever she feels like, and I should point out that another great gag with her is how loud she can be. Starsa has little filter, and is all too eager to announce her presence, or to announce some new piece of information shes gathered. Its only when shes specifically told to go into stealth mode that she makes a concerted effort to quiet herself and become secret agent Starsa. This is made even more fun by her new disguise as a Green Lantern ring, which shes just ever-so proud of. Hal basically gave her busy work to do, to keep her from freaking out and getting imprisoned again, and Starsa is loving life as she infiltrates the Green Lantern Corps. This cant POSSIBLY end poorly, right?!

To finish this write-up, Id just like to recount one of the more recent Starsa moments that really solidified her as being just a step above La Dama, instead of side-by-side next to Patch. We went to Singapore, and prior to the mission, Pepper had been taught how to make an explosive that resembled chewing gum. Realizing the potential applications of this, Pepper bought some gum from a local vendor (and made an old woman happy in the process). Later in that very session, we were fighting an attack helicopter, so Pepper decided to try out her new explosive, chewing and spitting it out.

Starsa, for reasons not immediately obvious at the time, soon thereafter dove into Peppers pack. I thought she was seeking shelter, but Starsa then emerged with a pack of chewing gum. It turns out, she was trying to help, not realizing that only the one piece of gum was explosive. She finished the fight tangled in a mess of gum in the pack, and feeling very foolish for her failed efforts. It was still cute though, and I give her credit for trying to help. Pepper did as well, and Starsa went from sad and droopy, to happy and peppy. It was, as usual, adorable. Thats ultimately Starsas chief trait, and in a world full of bleakness and cynicism, sometimes you need the bright and shining light of love to get you through the day.

Hint for #5: Has spent time in the Zonn Zorr library.

Mike the Rooster

The hand was already amputated in Atlanta - I think the amputation you're thinking about was the Mesa Verde one.

And Debbie died by exploding.

Also, Starsa has specifically said that Nikhto and her are just friends.

Anyway, Starsa is the eleventh party member (ignoring Xander, Nikhto, Twiggy). Somebody said Freddy earlier, who is not the person ranked here because I guess this is Ari? But yeah, Starsa is very good best friend and accompanies us everywhere so really, she's got more missions under her belt than anyone.

Ari ranking this high seems crazy to me. But maybe it's right - who would be left? Cheetah, Freddy, Alice, Brother Eye? I'll guess Ari.

Has ari ranked? Shit I can't remember now

Freddy either way

Also one of my favorite early Starsa moments was her meeting Misty. They said "Hi there!" To each other once for each of Misty's personalities

HM. Honorable Mention OR Harry Matthews
52. White Lightning
51. Ice Sickle
50. Nightshade (Eve Eden)
49. Lono
48. Misty Kilgore
47. TNTeena
46. Shiny Happy Aquazon (Kim Kimura)
45. Carmen Leno
44. Toyman (Hiro Okamura)
43. Dewormer
42. Till'all
41. Mike the Rooster
40. Radio Tuner
39. Batgirl (Stephanie Brown)
38. Half-Life (Byron Stark)
37. Jesse Custer
36. Ramsey Robinson
35. Sarah Washington
34. Rover
33. Blackbat (Cassandra Cain)
32. Traci Thirteen
31. Nite-Wing (Tad Ryerstad)
30. Thinker (Clifford DeVoe)
29. Fiddler (Isaac Bowin)
28. Miracle Molly (Mary Kowalski)
27. Jack Cross
26. Leroy
25. King Shark "Nanaue"
24. Lucas "Snapper" Carr
23. Valentina Vostok (Negative Woman)
22. Deadshot (Floyd Lawton)
21. Arthur Joseph "A.J." Curry
20. Catman (Thomas Blake)
19. Squeak
18. Cheshire (Jade Nguyen)
17. Pixie
16. Crazy Shy Lolita Canary
15. Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel)
14. Susie "Su'zie" Thompkins (aka Candice Evergreen, aka Athena)
13. Bonny Hoffman
12. Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore)
11. Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle)
10. Amanda Waller (Black Queen)
9. Rex the Wonder Dog
8. Patch (Boss, aka Parch)
7. La Dama
6. Star Sapphire Ring (Starsa)

Roulette, Freddy, Alice, Cheetah, Brother Eye

It's gotta be Freddy

is Vis going to buck the trend? Is all of the top 5 going to be in topic 2? Or do we get another before we move on?

I love reading about Starsa every time she comes up.

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Somehow I willed a nat 1 into existence. It was beautiful.

Yeah stories like this are great and a big reason why tabletop games rule. Making actions rely on dice luck creates some amazing emergent gameplay and roleplaying moments.

Inviso posted...

a Kryptonian super cancer... the threat of Kancer

I hate this.

Cody11533 posted...

I love reading about Starsa every time she comes up.

Yeah stories like this are great and a big reason why tabletop games rule. Making actions rely on dice luck creates some amazing emergent gameplay and roleplaying moments.

I'll have to talk about "roll persuasion or bluff" sometime

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I'll have to talk about "roll persuasion or bluff" sometime

Waaaaah

If that was not a nat 20, imagine the story with Brennus and Varra in this campaign!

It is funny to think of the butterfly effect the campaigns would've had if that nat 20 had been a nat 1 instead.

You end up playing not Brennus, but Varra's second child...

Brennus-2

Is that where the 7 in Data 7 comes from?

Cody11533 posted...

Is that where the 7 in Data 7 comes from?

yes

Johnbobb posted...

yes

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/5/AAOJ0pAADsUx.jpg

These are lies.

Bump.