Underworld: Hegarty vs Wicked Jennie

So we played my largely useless Wicked Jennie cast against the Black Katz. Wanting to use my newly painted control panels, we stuck them in a line across the middle of the table and gave a bonus of 2 Victory Points for each one we controlled at the end of 6 turns.

Jennie giving her cast a bit of a pre-match talking to.

A Black Kat getting ready to get medieval on my ass.

The objectives were placed along the centre of the table.

Jennie's gang started off in a sensible formation, but the Katz played some event which meant my opponent could rearrange them all in an annoying way.

Some of Jennie's gang trying to work out how to get over a wall.

Big 'Arry uses an invisible jet pack to fly into a commanding position.

Hegarty teleports in to make an early claim on one of the objectives.

The Black Katz approach the factory...

...and with two turns in a row, manage to take it unopposed.

Gra uses his infiltration to hang out with the Black Katz and pick off one of the stragglers.

Meanwhile, Jennie finally manages to organise her boys and get them somewhere near the factory.

Big 'Arry has the whole of the top storey to himself.

Jennie Mind Blasts one of the Katz, through the window,...

...and orders her boys to fill the factory with lead.

Meanwhile, Baggie drinks some invisibility potion.

Slim Jim finds some victims. He uses some sort of magical thing on one of them, making him all confused.

And a couple of Katz make their way to the final control room.

All the boys' SMGs mysteriously stop working and so they have little choice but to jump through the windows and begin kicking people in the head.

Jumping through windows and kicking people in the head turns out to be a surprisingly effective tactic.

Gra manages to shoot another of the Katz, and it starts to look grim for Hegarty and her cast.

Big 'Arry shoots Hegarty in the back.

Hegarty kills one of the boys...

...and then begins some strange sort of witch's para-fenestral mental duel with Jennie.

And Gra is killed, as the Katz begin to claw back some initiative.

Big 'Arry gets shot in the back, too.

Slim Jim decides magic is pretty useless compared to his fists of fury...

... and with a heroic surge, takes out three boys and claims one of the objectives.

Big 'Arry makes a surprisingly nimble manoeuvre, taking out a Kat as he goes through the window...

...and with his own heroic surge, takes out another Kat and claims a final objective, just clinching a narrow win for Wicked Jennie and her boys.

HQ

Finally finished the interior of my pretty boring factory office building. Not really sure what it was for, but I bought some excellent Copplestone and Antenociti control panels, and now any boring building can be instantly turned into an exciting super-base. I based the control panels together to make little modules; this loses a bit of flexibility, but keeps them under control a bit better in the heat of battle.

Underworld: Flowers' Powers

Here’s another underworld cast for 7TV. This one’s a little bit cheesy, but made with the Rules-As-Written, as far as I can tell, so I don’t feel too bad about it.

Name			Role		Billing	Ratings
Rebecca Flowers			Sinister Mystic		Star	65
Move	Def	Hits	Str	Agi	Int	Mor
6	4	3	3	4	5	5
Special Effects
Hypnotise Luck (2) Leader (2) Psychic Dodge
Weaver of Fates
Weapon		Range	Hit	Str	Notes
Brawl		Melee	3+	3	Stuns
Pistol		12”	3+	3	Pistol

Name			Role		Billing	Ratings
Flargl			Inhuman Servitor		Co-Star	49
Move	Def	Hits	Str	Agi	Int	Mor
6 (6)	4	2	3	4	3	4
Special Effects
Alien Concealment Luck(1) Flyer Rage
Weapon		Range	Hit	Str	Notes
Brawl		Melee	3+	3	Stuns
Weird Lick (Stun Stick)		Melee	3+	5	High Tech, Stuns

Name			Role		Billing	Ratings
Boo			Nasty Piece of Work		Co-Star	40
Move	Def	Hits	Str	Agi	Int	Mor
6	5	2	5	3	2	2
Special Effects
Luck (1) Kung Fu Grip Heroic Surge Alien Fearsome Sidekick (Rebecca) Slow
Weapon		Range	Hit	Str	Notes
Brawl		Melee	3+	5	Stuns
Two-Handed Weapon (Claws)		Melee	3+	6	Unwieldy

Name			Role		Billing	Ratings
Old Hippies (x8)			Security Guard		Extra	7
Move	Def	Hits	Str	Agi	Int	Mor
6	3	1	3	3	3	2
Special Effects
Blocker
Leader (1)(+5)
Weapon		Range	Hit	Str	Notes
Brawl		Melee	4+	3	Stun
Shotgun		8“	4+	3	Blast 3”, +1 to Hit
Pistol		12”	4+	3	Pistol
SMG		16”	4+	3	Burst, No Aim

Rebecca Flowers was a 12 year old girl in seventeenth century England, seemingly entirely innocent of witchcraft, who gets dragged to the pyre kicking and screaming by witch hunters during the teaser to Underworld 1:05 What Are Little Girl’s Made Of? But instead of a hapless victim, we soon learn that Rebecca is a powerful witch, a cynical and manipulative one, if still extremely young.

The sky goes dark and all the villagers and soldiers disappear to be replaced by an abandoned factory* in modern ‘70s London. Rebecca is wandering through the site and appears to be about to be hit by a speeding security van when, in the nick of time, the van is ambushed by a gang of shotgun-wielding old hippies. The hippies see Rebecca and unsure what else to do with her, bring her back to their lock-up with the loot. They give her a green teddy bear-like thing and a badly painted plastic flying dinosaur toy to keep her quiet.

One thing leads to another in the bizarre setting of Underworld and Rebecca soon becomes the gang’s leader. She transforms the bear and the toy into ‘Boo**’ and ‘Flargl’, fearsome beasts that do her bidding. Rebecca then leads her gang on a string outrageously successful security van raids across London, using Boo to rip off the doors of the security vans and frighten the security guards, and using Flargl to fly around a bit.

Although this episode is otherwise rather promising, Rebecca Flowers was never used again in the show because everyone agreed that the actress playing her was utterly abysmal.

* The factory setting used for this episode was also used for episodes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and 13 of the first and second series of Underworld as it was just around the corner from the producer’s favourite pub.

** The rubber suit for the Boo character later found its way to the BBC and after some reconditioning and a repaint made an appearance in the Doctor Who serial, The Androids of Tara.