Actual Play Of Mighty Marvelous Part I

 

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog! Today I decided to write down some of the Actual Play I made when I was play-testing Mighty Marvelous. I had so much fun playing Mighty Marvelous. I love superheroes so much and getting to create my own superhero who interacts with other superheroes and villains of my own creation was just awesome!

Mighty Marvelous uses my MMUGS engine, which allows you to play a game while writing a cohesive narrative. Everyone’s writing style is different, and when I play solo I tend to write in a stream of consciousness without much detail but with plenty of action. I don’t write with paragraph breaks and sometimes I get so into my writing that I create run-on sentences, but for this Actual Play I’ve edited the story a bit, just enough so it should be easily readable.

This Actual Play is basically the first chapter of my hero, Glamour Girl’s adventures. Glamour Girl is featured on the front cover of Mighty Marvelous, illustrated by the talented Miguelangel Bastidas.

If you’re interested in playing Mighty Marvelous yourself, you can purchase it on itchio here or on drivethrurpg here. You are free to publish any stories you create using the MMUGS system, although I would love to hear about it! You can email me at sarahrblount@gmail.com or just comment here on the blog.

Without further ado, here is Part I of Mighty Marvelous: The Adventures Of Glamour Girl!

 

Part I

Glamour Girl (Wilma Watlee) is a superhero who protects the city of Lukeville from crime and devastation. She can fly, has super strength, is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and can shoot blasts of energy using her hands. She has a strict no-kill rule, but villains are always trying to push her past her limits, especially her main foe, Gadget. She acquired her powers when she was an orphaned child and was experimented on using alien DNA. She escaped the laboratory and the scientists shortly after, and arrived in Lukeville as a teenager with dreams of becoming a theater actress.

For now, when she’s not protecting the city, she sings at local clubs and bars for extra cash. She’s eyeing a lead part in a play, A Waste Of Crow, premiering in January of next year. As of right not, she’s just waking up due to her alarm going off on her phone. A villain is attacking the city.

She puts on her fabulous Glamour Girl costume and flies out of her apartment window, careful that no one sees her leaving. The event is taking place at the uptown bank. On her way, she sees an elderly woman having trouble walking into the street to cross. Glamour Girl takes a minute to help the elderly woman cross the road. Citizens on the sidewalk clap and cheer for her, and the woman thanks her with a hard candy.

As she continues towards the bank, she sees the superhero, Spectre, dealing with three thugs in hand-to-hand combat. Glamour Girl would help, but he can take care of himself.

As she is about to pass by a tall building, a window washer’s platform is hanging by just one rope. She saves the window washer and carries him down to the ground. He thanks her and she continues on.

She passes by a man on the street walking his dog who she has no idea is the villain Gadget disguised as a civilian.

Finally, she arrives at the bank to see the Illusive Magician robbing it. He has no henchmen, just floating bags of money he’s orchestrating with his wand into a giant gray van. He’s laughing maniacally until he sees Glamour Girl, then he turns serious and summons a red-eyed bird out of his hat to attack Glamour Girl. The bird flies at her face. The bird claws at her cheeks, leaving behind visible scratches she’ll have to explain later.

She throws the bird off and it flies away. She tries to punch the Illusive Magician, but he vanishes before her fist makes contact. He appears again behind her. He tries to strike her with a large sack of money but she catches it. She in turn strikes him with the money sack, knocking him almost off his feet. He catches himself on a railing before he falls and sneers at her. He casts a fireball spell at her using his wand. She gracefully dodges. She kicks him in the stomach and he goes flying down the steps to the sidewalk.

Grunting and angry, he aims his wand at her again. He casts a strange dark spell at her but she swiftly dodges it as she approaches him. He casts a ray of light from his wand that hits her in the face and blinds her temporarily. He then hits her hard over the head with a sack of money. He hits her again and she falls over.

He gets in the silver van and drives off. He gets away. She’ll have to find him later. Right now she can barely see and her head is throbbing and her face is scratched.

She returns to her apartment. For now she needs to rest and recover from that embarrassing event.

She covers her face wounds with make-up that night and heads to a bar to sing. She does an okay job, not her best work. She earned very few tips. She returns to her apartment to sleep.

The next morning she wakes knowing she has a new mission: Go into the Illusive Magician’s lair and arrest him for robbing the bank yesterday.

Glamour Girl dresses up in her costume and leaves her apartment through the alleyway, towards the lair. She arrives at his lair, an abandoned movie theater. As soon as she enters, she sees a security guard tied up. She unties him. He says the gray van had belonged to him and his partner, who is being held prisoner further in the lair. She tells the guard to wait outside and she’ll find his partner.

She delves deeper into the lair. The next area is trapped. She triggers the trap, poison gas, but escapes the area before she is affected by it. She goes through two more areas that are empty before finding the other security guard tied up. She frees him and sends him to wait outside.

In the final area is the Illusive Magician. He fires a spell at her, but she dodges. She shoots a light beam of energy at him, but he dodges, too. She runs up to punch him, but he vanishes and appears behind her wielding a crowbar. He hits her hard with it. She falls down, injured. He hits her again. When he goes to hit her a third time, she rolls out of the way. She blasts him with an energy beam, and the crowbar flies out of his hands. She tells him to give up. He ignores her.

She gets to her feet and hits him in the face. She holds back her strength so as not to break his skull. Just as she is about to hit him again, he raises his hands in surrender, nose bleeding. He is brought to the police stations and jailed while the security guards are brought to the hospital.

All of the bank’s stolen cash is recovered. The newspapers praise Glamour Girl for catching the bad guy. Glamour Girl has injuries herself, so she returns home to her apartment to rest.

That's it for Part I! I might continue adding to her story on the blog if there's enough interest. 

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