Okay, so we've reached the point of actually getting ready to start what would become the Champions campaign this website is based upon. I took Quasar and reworked him into Spectrum. I was still learning the Champions rules at this point and Specs went through several different designs.
Muskateer wanted to know some of Spectrum's background and I didn't come up with very much. I had bought Writing as a skill, so he was a writer by profession. Beyond that, I told Muskateer to indulge himself. (Little did he know... - M)
Boy, was that a big misake! Never give any GM free leeway with your character's background! But I was young and stupid in those days, so that's what happened.
As a side note, from my later experience of running games on Q-Link I had the opportunity to deal with at least 100 different gamers. There are those gamers who will send you page after page of details about their characters while there are those who don't tell you anything beyond their base write ups. Truely gamers came in all different flavors. I always encourage players to tell me as much about their characters as possible. (Because it gave me material to work with when it came to their characters!
)So one day I got the first installment of Spectrum's exploits in the mail. It consisted of 1 single page that was handwritten. (I know, how archaic! - M) It started with Jim writing in Whitney's apartment. He recieves a strange phone call and then Giganto bursts through the wall. (This was Prof. Muerte's computer checking up on him. -M) And that was the entire installment! There was also a picture of Giganto coming through the wall as well.
All in all, what happened in the early BA issues mirrors what happened in the first 5 issues of Spectrum here on the website (without some of the detail). After running into Giganto, Shadow Queen shows up chased by the Thugmaster's Elite. Then they run into Icicle and other mutants. They overpower the system holding them and escape from the Genocide Base and end up in Denver, Colorado. Spec, Sque, & Icy committe a robbery to get money to get back to LA. The plane crashes while enroute.
The gist of the story is the same, but some of the details are very different. For instance, the Thugmaster's Elite was a completely different group of individuals. Muskateer was using a group of supers from a Supergame supplement called "The Heroes of Poseidonis". If you never seen it or heard about it, you're not missing much.
Only the Dark Knight is a carry over from that group. (Other members included: Warpath, Black Hole (a female version), Lady Adamant, Scarab, Figment (of someone's imagination), Turbo (totally unrelated to the YC version), Scree, Catseye, Poltergiest (who has some similarties to the Wild Cards version), & Scirroco.
Also in the story was a hoser named Polaris (based on the same character from the earlier game) who became a source of annoyance to Spectrum in the stories to come.
All during the story Spectrum was being called a villian, so he came out of all this thinking he was a villian! But there were more Bizzare Adventures to come!
) in the original.
