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Mr. Zamboni (or, When One Person Loves A Sport TOO Much) Zales "The Puck" Pulinski was a hard-core, nuts-to-the-safety-screen hockey fan. There are 'fans', there are 'boosters', and then there are people like him. He'd go to every hockey match he could, or watch them on TV. He'd buy so much hockey p...

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Give it a shot, Troy. After looking up the definition online, I have an idea too (rather silly), but let's see yours first.

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Locksmith and KeyMaster Lou "the Lip" Sarris was just a low-level solider in the local mob. Like all small-timers, he wanted to be 'made'. Since his family owned a locksmith store, he studied every lock, deadbolt, combination lock & door-barring device ever made. He studies electronics to discover t...

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Go for it, Troy. I drew a blank.

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Nah, too much fun.

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Hey, I went with first thought. Glad ya liked it, heh.

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Inner Darkness Some people are born to evil, others come by it naturally. Some resort to it in reaction, and there are those who are living embodiments of all three. It's rumored that the being calling itself "the Inner Darknes of all humankind" was the illegitimate child of two superbeings, either ...

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The Christmas Grinch "You're a mean one, Mister Grinch...."--lyric excerpt from the How the Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon. It wasn't that Greg didn't have the christmas spirit, it was that the christmas spirit didn't have him. Greg was born on December 24th, precicely at 12:02am two & a half decade...

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Powerman 5000 After the last "questionable" nuclear accedent the world suffered through, the Cyrenix Corporation embarked on a bold venture--androids capable of cleaning up the worst of nuclear spills without endangering human life or the immediate eco-sysem. Ambitious, yes, but with the recent brea...

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Yeah, I'm still waiting for the write up on my suggestion...............

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Steamboat Willie is a marvel of pre-Industrial Revolutionary technology. A clockwork mechanism resembling a brass & gold man straight from the early 1890's, this steam-powered robot had been on display in the Smithsonian Institution until the mad wizard Kralthon stormed into the famed museum, walked...

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Yeah, I thought the board could use a little freaky. So, who's up??

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Atomisk The Pirate King Throughout history, there have been great men of action & daring, willing to defy the odds to battle oppression, stepping outside the law to accomplish justice......... This guy isn't one of them. Anthony Pirati was the last in a long line of pirates that should have died out...

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The board system apparently 'forwarded' a page without a prompting entry, hense the "no topic exists on this page" that you get when you try to see it. It also look like this has been corrected.

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Thanks, Troy.

I just went with the first thing that popped into my head.

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Overlord " I am your Overlord, and you will capitulate to my benevolence. There is no other option ." - Overlord, on his first appearance in China. Overlord is a mysterious figure. While historical scholars point out that there have been many who claim to be an 'overlord' throughout human history, n...

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Demonicus Demonicus is the reason 'normal' people distrust mutants. Demonicus is the reason most non-mutant superheroes distrust mutants. Demonicus is the reason why there's so much trouble with & in the Mutant Underground. His origin seems to be written straight from a comic book. His father was as...

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Dante's Inferno or, don't mess with something you don't know about Dante Kalinski was going to show them all. HE was the king of the streets, not the smarmy high-school jerks, not the brain-dead teachers, not the punk street gangs, and especially not his always-drunk-off-his-@ss old man. He did some...

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???? I don't know if there has been any replies to this since my last posting here, I can't get the display to move up-to-date.

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I would say this calles for a re-write & re-post. No offense, Cherico, but that one was a little lacking.

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B-Nox Recently cast out of the Newark Mutant Underground, William "B-Nox" Knoxville is an emotinally disturbed teen with an uncontrolled power.......something the MTF, SHOCK and other "grey-area" mutant hunter teams would LOVE to exploit. So far, B-Nox has only performed small-time crimes, just enou...

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Chauvanistic Tendencies A womanizer that would put Casanova & the other great legendary lovers to shame, this sad psychologically scarred man, known only as "C.T.", has left a trail of (male) wounded egos & (female) broken hearts across the country. With varying descriptions confounding law-enforcem...

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Entity Zero The mysterious person known only as "Entity Zero" is a complete enigma to most of the law-enforcement community, save for an Ultra-classified file in the hands of SCRET's elite council. In the early days of the Cold War, espionage was paramount. The US Government had yet to perfect it's ...

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Uni Auxilliary Ben Kaperon was an only child. He hated being an only child. He knew his parents couldn't have any other children (his mom has a rare condition that made even her first pregnancy life-threatening), and they wouldn't adopt. Ben had a pretty good childhood, he had friends, significant o...

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The Sickness Theo Palison was a virologist (a scientist who studied the mysteries of viruses, diseases and other illnesses) who worked for the US Government's new sub-division of the CDC, one set up to identify and combat the new super-viruses that were being designed by various supervillians & othe...

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Koala Kewtie (or, What you DON'T do to get a local shaman mad at you) Sheila Kanarsie, a born & bred Ausie girl, never really spent any time in her country's Outback reagon, until her company's real-estate division asked her to check out a plot of land that nobody wanted. Rumors had it that it was c...

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Dev, something tells me you got a touch of inspiration from the They Might Be Giants song......

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Purple-Monkey-Dishwasher The benelovent alien C'lasih-Dthaliul soft-landed in Central Park three months ago, and although the US Govt. was swift to cover up this, a few humans were witness to this extraordinary event. When one human asked the alien his name, C'lasih's translator malfunctioned, trans...

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Emoticon Sarah Jessep was born with a rare neurological disorder, she is unable to experience emotions. This has left her with a clinicaly analytical mind, unencumbered by social attchments, but little remains of her humanity. Given the fact that she also has some psychic talents, doesn't exactly as...

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Baron Badass (or, when a small-timer goes big-time too fast, too soon) Carlton "The Tagger" Tayber was a small-time legbreaker for the local mob. Not terribly bright, but he had more sense than his fellow low-grade enforcers (he knew enough not to break the rules) and made a pretty good living hirin...

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Rick Deathstalker Rick was the all time loser. He barely passed basics in high school, and was always picked on, even by the social outcasts. He barely got the job as a night-watchman at the local museum, for thier "Mythological Weapons of the Dark Ages" event opening later that summer. One night, a...

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Belle Fleur Belle Michaeles was the only daughter of a pair of 'hippie left-overs' who taught their daughter that all the world's problems could be solved if "they'd all just stop & smell the flowers". She took this to heart, and worked her way hard through school, college and finally into perfume &...

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The Classic No one remembers the hero known as The Classic. A forgotten hero of the Golden Age, Symon Ulentiskov was a Polish Jew immigrant at the start of WW2, fleeing the Nazi War Machine as it plowed through his homeland. He, his family, and sevreal others surrendered their last meager possession...

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Mr. Horrible Not all superbeings are welcomed by the populace at large. Some aren't even accepted by their own kind. And even rarer still, are the ones like Mr. Horrible, a kind & gentle soul imprsioned in the flesh of a monster. Gary Timmons was the quintesential good guy, he helped the elderly acr...

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Serendeputy Suzan Renels had what it took to be a super-model. At age 12, she was signed by the top model agency in the world and appeared on world-renowned fashion magazines, the runways of Parisian and New York fashion shows, modeled for all the top designers and even did the spokesperson bit for ...

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I dunno, I heard it somewhere and it just popped in again. If anyone can identify & translate it, please post it.

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It started with some 'extra' pages being tacked on my the new system, that wern't being filled up automatically. Then the new BBS code wouldn't allow access beyond p.36, due to some code glitch (i'm told this can happen), so Midnight closed the first thread and allowed this second one to pick up whe...

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OK, first I want to thank Midnight for allowing us the chance to start this up again. This is (at least I think) a good thread and allows the participants to flex a little creativity. But the Moderator has the right to let us know what's what, and I for one appreciate that. The last name posted was ...

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