SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1995 #18: Come to Nympho!

[Scott Eiler]

In a rare *second* Powernaut Comic strip in one month, a hero once again 
has to lay down their life to stop an unstoppable alien invader - and 
this time, it isn't the Powernaut!  More about this hero in the 
comments...  but this series called "Maximum Extremity" has indeed 
reached its maximum.

http://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1995b.htm#18

Wyatt Ferguson might comment on next issue... but commentary on *this* 
issue is a job for Author's Notes.

...

"Nympho" was one of the two female characters in a role-playing game I 
ran in the 1990s.  The two players of those characters were female also. 
The rest of the superhero team "Total Conversion" arose from that campaign.

I suspect Nympho (like the rest of Total Conversion) was created to 
stretch the genre.  But I, being the gamemaster, made the Earth and the 
entire universe increasingly challenging to that.  (Go figure.  It would 
happen even worse in the Real World.)  And Powernauts weren't around 
then.  So came the moment when only one character could save the Earth. 
And she stepped up.

The player accused me afterwards of turning the campaign grim and 
gritty.  In my defense as gamemaster, that was always going to happen. 
She just wasn't around for most of the game play.  (Some of the players 
who *were* around when the crackdown came said, About time you gave us a 
challenge.)

I've thrown other stuff out of this story.  (There are some things which 
simply do not happen with the Powernaut and his friends around.)  Still, 
this part is important, so I have made an editorial decision to keep 
this incident within Powernaut Comics.

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-- (signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

"Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

- Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal.  From "The golden age of
Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.