X-Factor Annual #3 - "Terror in the Treasures"
Recap:
Note: This Annual takes place between X-Factor #4 & #5. The first two annuals were covered in the Bizzare Adventures thread.
Morning Star had gotten a request from her friend, Jonathan Overstreet a noted philanthropist. He asked for her to be present at the Grand Re-Opening of his museum, and the whole team was on hand. Shortly before this, Blizzard had quit the team in the wake of Shadow Queen leaving. This left the team roster at Spectrum, Morning Star, Shockwave, & Icicle.
The museum was one of the stops of the four year American and European tour, of what was being called the Pompeii of Britain. The symbol of the show was a beautiful silver orb set in an unusually shaped base that seemed to be made of petrified wood. Carved into the wood were rather unusual pictoglyphs that were indecipherable.
Mr. Overstreet has always been interested in the occult and the exotic. His archive collection has many unusual pieces in it. The tour, however, was being shown in the center room which was reserved for just such traveling exhibits.
But everything did not go smoothly. Black Paladin, Ripper, Radium, Dragon Fly, Slug, and Plague burst onto the scene and tried to make off with the orb. The group was formed in Stronghold, when Black Paladin recognized the orb on a documentary about the find.
The battle headed outside where X-Factor eventually managed to defeat the villains. However, Slug managed to get away with the base of the orb and Black Paladin with the orb itself. Ripper also managed to get away. Plague, Radium and Dragonfly were taken into custody.
A few days later, there was a break in at the 1st National Bank. There they had a run-in with Armadillo, Halfjack, the Leaper, and Oculon. You thoroughly trashed them this time.
Finally, the team base was severely damaged when two Minutemen attacked. One of the giant robots was captured intact. Hornet then took the robot to his lab to see what he could do with it.
X-Factor Annual #3 - "Terror in the Treasures"
X-Factor Annual #3 - "Terror in the Treasures"
Last edited by Spectrum on Thu Dec 26, 2002 4:56 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Have light, will illuminate!
Comments:
As previously noted, annual in our sense of the word were adventures we did live during Muskateer's visits back home from college. The entry was an edited version of what Muskateer wrote.
Terror in the Treasures was a fun little modual and a great many things spun out of it. Some of those things we plan to re-use in the new stuff. There were things in the recap that I deliberately didn't talk about as we didn't want to ruin the surprise.
Thats part of the reason I haven't been putting up old XF recaps as fast as of late. How to recap something and not give things away? There are somethings that we'll have to spill if only to make the recaps that follow make any sense.
For instance, a new team member shows up at the end of old XF #5. Now this character has appeared on the new site, but as of yet has no connection to XF. I could skip the next XF arc (issues number five through eight) and go right into XF#9 but then people would be wondering: "Where the heck did this guy come from?"
So, its a sort of balancing act. Provide enough info for things to make sense while at the same time hiding enough details for those things we plan to redo. At the moment, I'm targeting Terror in the Treasures to start in new X-Factor #27.
The bank robbery seems like a throwaway encounter to me now. Not sure if it was related to anything else. Armadillo trashed Spec pretty good in BA, so this was a bit of evening the score.
I also though the Minutemen attack had happened back in BA as well, but guess I was wrong. This is where it happened and the intact robot was turned over to Hornet to examination. Little did I know the trouble that was lead to!
As previously noted, annual in our sense of the word were adventures we did live during Muskateer's visits back home from college. The entry was an edited version of what Muskateer wrote.
Terror in the Treasures was a fun little modual and a great many things spun out of it. Some of those things we plan to re-use in the new stuff. There were things in the recap that I deliberately didn't talk about as we didn't want to ruin the surprise.
Thats part of the reason I haven't been putting up old XF recaps as fast as of late. How to recap something and not give things away? There are somethings that we'll have to spill if only to make the recaps that follow make any sense.
For instance, a new team member shows up at the end of old XF #5. Now this character has appeared on the new site, but as of yet has no connection to XF. I could skip the next XF arc (issues number five through eight) and go right into XF#9 but then people would be wondering: "Where the heck did this guy come from?"
So, its a sort of balancing act. Provide enough info for things to make sense while at the same time hiding enough details for those things we plan to redo. At the moment, I'm targeting Terror in the Treasures to start in new X-Factor #27.
The bank robbery seems like a throwaway encounter to me now. Not sure if it was related to anything else. Armadillo trashed Spec pretty good in BA, so this was a bit of evening the score.
I also though the Minutemen attack had happened back in BA as well, but guess I was wrong. This is where it happened and the intact robot was turned over to Hornet to examination. Little did I know the trouble that was lead to!
Have light, will illuminate!
Though I don't recall the number, I have the issue of Adventurer's Club that has this adventure. You know, it scares me sometimes just how much of the stuff from this game I have, especially considering my waning interest in the game from a mechanics viewpoint. (HS5E really turned me off!) Which is not to say that I wouldn't be interested in a game here on the message boards... <nudge nudge>
Admittedly, reading this is a little jarring due to the constant "you" references, which have been changed in virtually everything else that's been posted. Still, very worth reading, though.
Personally, I'd say hold off on posting any recaps that could spoil future stories for the main site. The 'new' stories are more important in my book.
Besides, you've got lots of other stuff you can post. Right?
Gordon
Admittedly, reading this is a little jarring due to the constant "you" references, which have been changed in virtually everything else that's been posted. Still, very worth reading, though.
Personally, I'd say hold off on posting any recaps that could spoil future stories for the main site. The 'new' stories are more important in my book.
Besides, you've got lots of other stuff you can post. Right?
Gordon
That would be Adventurers Club #3. Between Muskateer & myself we have almost everything that was pre-4th edition. I have everything from 4th Edition itself, but never touched 5th Edition. I think we're missing one AC out of all the ones published. Quite a few of the early adventures in those have turned up. The Mechanon Gambit & The Hawkes Phantom had already been done in Bizzare Adventures by this point. What Rough Beast is yet to come.
Well, no official announcements on a possible online game at this point. Althougth I did share some ideas with Muskateer a while back. Unfortunately between my regular job and this big project for the business site, my time is pretty filled. Not to mention writing new stuff for this site! Sheesh, I need a vacation!
All can I say about the You's is thank goodness for being able to edit your posts! I missed a few of those when I originally posted. And yes, the files were specifically written for each other and were not meant to be read by outsiders, so we used YOU a lot!
Muskateer and I have had some discussions on how to go about those recaps for those things we haven't done over yet. The only really signigicant thing that would be given away is the identity of the new XF member. Of course given how many things have changed and will be changed, this person may not end up on the team at all! (but I doubt that!)
One of the things I've been trying to do is do recaps in order of the way things were originally done, so this is always going to be next post. Well, I guess we'll see what we come up with.
Ideally, I would want to cover all of the old files and then jump over to the Q-Link stuff. Between those two, that should take several years to complete! The Q stuff is interesting as it offers a third variation on some of the things we've run in the old stuff and in the new stuff.
Well, no official announcements on a possible online game at this point. Althougth I did share some ideas with Muskateer a while back. Unfortunately between my regular job and this big project for the business site, my time is pretty filled. Not to mention writing new stuff for this site! Sheesh, I need a vacation!
All can I say about the You's is thank goodness for being able to edit your posts! I missed a few of those when I originally posted. And yes, the files were specifically written for each other and were not meant to be read by outsiders, so we used YOU a lot!
Muskateer and I have had some discussions on how to go about those recaps for those things we haven't done over yet. The only really signigicant thing that would be given away is the identity of the new XF member. Of course given how many things have changed and will be changed, this person may not end up on the team at all! (but I doubt that!)
One of the things I've been trying to do is do recaps in order of the way things were originally done, so this is always going to be next post. Well, I guess we'll see what we come up with.
Ideally, I would want to cover all of the old files and then jump over to the Q-Link stuff. Between those two, that should take several years to complete! The Q stuff is interesting as it offers a third variation on some of the things we've run in the old stuff and in the new stuff.
Have light, will illuminate!
I agree that you shouldn't post a series out of order. Better to hold off on that title until it won't "let the cat out of the bag".
I was thinking more along the lines of some of the other titles. I may be wrong, but it was my impression that many of the other titles - like, say, Young Champions (!) or Scarlet Sabre - were based on previous campaigns. Of course, these might be the Q-Link campaigns you mentioned. Either way, they would be good for posting while you hold off on XF.
Just my $0.02,
Gordon
I was thinking more along the lines of some of the other titles. I may be wrong, but it was my impression that many of the other titles - like, say, Young Champions (!) or Scarlet Sabre - were based on previous campaigns. Of course, these might be the Q-Link campaigns you mentioned. Either way, they would be good for posting while you hold off on XF.
Just my $0.02,
Gordon
The problem with not "letting the cat out of the bag" in this particular instance, is that this story will probably be done 3-4 YEARS from now for the site. I'm not sure I want to wait that long to protect this one little secret. 
The original Young Champions was on Q-Link and not the Old Stuff. Likewise, the Scarlet Sabre had her first adventures on Q-Link. The current YC and the original YC only share a few concepts that are similar. The majority of what goes on in YC is original. All of Scarlet is original and is not based on anything else.
At this point in the Old Stuff, there only was XF & the Avengers. Muskateer wrote several mini-series featuring various XF members. We later on collected these together and they became the original Troubleshooters and Spectrum series. The first issue of Spectrum came after XF 14.
On my end of things I started to add several other series to the Avengers. Huntress #1 came out around Avengers #15. Right after Avengers #22, both Muskateer #1 and Defenders #1 came out. Enchantress #1 didn't come out until after Avengers #29.
Outside of continuing on with XF & the Avengers, the only other thing I can cover without going out of order would be the first Troubleshooters mini-series which has already been done on the site: the origin of Photon.
Coincidently, Photon was originally called Lunar, but changed his name way back in the old stuff. So much like Firestar, Photon had a different name for a short time. I guess we'll see what happens on this front.
The original Young Champions was on Q-Link and not the Old Stuff. Likewise, the Scarlet Sabre had her first adventures on Q-Link. The current YC and the original YC only share a few concepts that are similar. The majority of what goes on in YC is original. All of Scarlet is original and is not based on anything else.
At this point in the Old Stuff, there only was XF & the Avengers. Muskateer wrote several mini-series featuring various XF members. We later on collected these together and they became the original Troubleshooters and Spectrum series. The first issue of Spectrum came after XF 14.
On my end of things I started to add several other series to the Avengers. Huntress #1 came out around Avengers #15. Right after Avengers #22, both Muskateer #1 and Defenders #1 came out. Enchantress #1 didn't come out until after Avengers #29.
Outside of continuing on with XF & the Avengers, the only other thing I can cover without going out of order would be the first Troubleshooters mini-series which has already been done on the site: the origin of Photon.
Coincidently, Photon was originally called Lunar, but changed his name way back in the old stuff. So much like Firestar, Photon had a different name for a short time. I guess we'll see what happens on this front.
Have light, will illuminate!