Lizard and Lunk

The continuing GURPS adventures of eight men who really should find better uses for their time.

Monday, February 27, 2006

Get me to the church on time

16 Feb 06 -

We were pulled away from our reveries about approaching demonic supervillains by a call from the Columbus suburb of Dublin, where some poor kid on a visiting basketball team got fried in the middle of a game by . . . something. Some kind of mysterious energy beam from the bleachers, apparently.

The kid had just fouled one of the home players, so we wondered if the energy blast might have come from someone connected to the foulee. We (Craig, actually) then wondered if the foulee's girlfriend might be an emerging super, and if she might have unleashed the blast accidentally.

The girl had apparently vanished by the time we arrived on the scene, so we began tracking down possible connections, scaring the crap out of her parents in the process. We learned that religion plays a big part in her life, so we worked that angle -- only to have the pastor of her church tell us that we, as supers, are "an affront to God."

Goodie. Still no sign of the girl (who, if our theory about her being a super is correct, must be going through some serious self-image issues right now), and now our feelings are hurt too.

Maybe the churchgoers will think a bit better of us once Lex Lucifer and his pals show up.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Or maybe the demons - supposedly coming for "the light" - will be gunning for the new, highly religious-based supergirl. Who will discover that the faith that rejects her powers is the only thing that can save her. Or is that too contrived?

Naaaah.

5:21 AM  

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