Re: [HOE] A new favorite villain

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

I think Dr. Valentine need not be done yet...  "I managed to find a donor
brain to transplant into my body!"

Or is that over the top for even HOE?

Eh, I really liked Dr. Valentine, dead by his own scalpel in a cave or not!

Jeff Y.

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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: [HOE] A new favorite villain


> I just started a new HoE party,
>   And I just ran a *New* villain, and I just wanted to see what you guys
> thought.  So far, he's good, but I want some ideas on where to go from
here.
>
> He's Dr. Chick Valentine,
>    The concept:  Chick Valentine: Marine Medic was the #1 show on UBC
(Union
> Broadcasting network) when the bombs fell.  And it's star, Wycliff Savoy,
was
> one of the biggest celebs around.  When the Last War happened everything
gets
> cut off and survival becomes a dreadful and horrid thing.  Mr Savoy is an
> actor (Not much in the lines of useful skills in a post apocalyptic
> wasteland, 'Less you believe David Brin.), but as people are wont to do,
they
> mistake him for his role on TV and ask him for help with sick people.  At
> first, all he's doing is first aid and some blarney to make them feel
better,
> but as time goes on, his patients become beyond the skills of his Thespian
> M.D..  But what does he do?  He begins to fake it, he throws some
> technobabble, tries his best, and when the person dies (from the injury or
> from poorly done care), he gives a big performance ("I tried my best, but
God
> had other plans.  Oh God, why does it never get any easier?"), takes the
> food, and leaves.
>        As time goes on, Savoy takes his role from town to town, and
gradually
> he just starts introducing himself as Dr. Valentine and 'helping' people.
> Between rad sickness, near starvation at times, and the constant facade,
Mr
> Savoy begins to go a little nuts and begins to think he actually *is*
Chick
> Valentine: Marine Medic.  And here is where arcane forces come in.  The
> travelling hoax doctor gains the attention of Death and the Horseman
begins
> making things 'easier' for Valentine to do his stuff.  Monsters dont
attack
> him as much, the 'knowledge of medicine' begins to come easier and his
> treatments become more severe.  This goes on until, well, you pretty much
> have a full fledged servitor on your hands.
>
> The adventure:
>     The party comes to a town (The party has a Law Dog and a Sawbones in
it
> among others), they trade, they schmooze, and they see a boy with a
crooked
> arm.  The Sawbones looks at the arm and finds that it was broken, and then
> splinted, POORLY.  When they ask, the townsfolk are willing to talk about
> travelling Dr. Valentine and how he saved the boy's arm and how it was
broken
> nearly in two by a rockslide and Dr. Valentine risked life and limb to
save
> him.  Arcane types could find that these people have had some mild mojo
used
> on them.  The Law Dog finds a note from the previous Sherrif of the town
> saying that this Sherrif 'Doesn't trust Dr. Valentint', but finds that the
> Sherrif was dead (he was wounded by a wildcat and died of infection.  Dr
> Valentine tried his best, but the wounds were too severe).  Dr Valentine
left
> a week ago.
>      Now, if the party is good, they want to find this Dr. Valentine, and
> inquire about his medical license.  Tell party members who are older that
the
> name sounds familiar, but they just can't place it.  Now the party
probably
> goes off after Valentine.  Valentine's on foot, they have a car, should be
no
> problem.  They drive after him but on the way to the next town, they are
> bushwhacked by some very ornery beasties (Pick an orney beast).  In this
> case, they stopped to scrounge an old tourist site (The Bass Museum) and
were
> attacked by mutant land bass (HoE, fish, sharp teeth, spiderlegs, big
fun).
> But in the Museum, they see a poster of... Chick Valentine advertising
> Bluejeans/Candy/cars/etc.  And NOW you tell them why the name sounds
> familiar.  And they know what he looks like (at least what he looked like
13
> years ago).
>      When they get to the next town, they find Dr Valentine has been there
> and he did some 'Medicine' on the Sherrif with a bad tooth.  Here is where
> you get grizzly, think about all the bad things that could happen if a
> non-qualified person decided to play dentist and think of a grizzly way to
> portray and describe it (I used wrench, tooth, caught bit of the tongue,
you
> get my drift).  AND that Dr. Valentine left 2 days earlier.  Here's where
the
> Law dog wanted to revoke Valentine's medical license (And he wanted to
revoke
> it *hard*).
>      they leave, but on the way to the next town, they're attacked by a
> Radwraith.  BIG, NASTY, HOMOCIDAL (But why didn't it bother Dr.
Valentine?).
> Big fight, and they made it.
>     Next town, big fun again with botched medical procedures (improvised
> kidney transplant.... ooooh fun... make is Grisly and a half!).  And
they're
> right on Valentine's tail.  He left yesterday morning.
>     Hard road, maybe more beasties (it was getting late, so I wrapped it
up),
> and they find that Dr. Valentine was there, heard about a child trapped in
a
> nearby cave, and went to help.  If they ask, Valentine asked for a pen,
some
> tubing, and a razor (followers of medical drama know that that's how you
do a
> tracheotomy in TV land), and the party needs to beat him there.
>     They go to the cave, and find Dr Valentine kneeling over the body of a
> moaning child (Make sure he's moaning) and he's holding the razorblade.
He
> bends over to 'treat' the child (my party, bless their souls, just shot
him
> down like a dog) and he goes down in a huge bloodsplatter.  Here's where
they
> look at the kid, but the kid is a week old corpse.  What?  Then they see
Dr.
> Valentine standing right there, healthy and vibrant.  He's throwing mdical
> jargon and how he must go on to 'Heal the world'.
>      So, the party knows, he's unkillable and, they have to stop him.  My
> party was brilliant, so the stepped into his brain and said
>    "Dr Valentine, We have bad news, you have a brain tumor"  A good plan,
> major kudos and experience for the brave men and women of the HOE.  Well,
Dr.
> Valentine wanders off to a cave, where our brave compadres find him, his
head
> screwed open like a pop-top jar working on himself with a dull razor
blade.
> He looks at the party, his one uncut eye covered in his own blood and says
"I
> will beat this, medicine will find a way".  They collapse the cave, and
all
> goes well.
>     Whacha think?
>         Damon
>
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