Unlikely Team Up

I keep wanting to start an actual play experience for Stalwart '85 that actually goes on for a while - I don't know if I'd actually want to do videos or anything, but I'd like to have an actual play that I use to keep the game growing organically. I mean, my home solo campaign I guess. I keep going back and forth between making new characters (I did just roll up Novus Null a few days ago...), but then I go back to the characters from the core rules. I have kept trying to think of the pair of heroes that might go together the best, and this morning I decided to try something else - who are two heroes I'd never think of putting together, and what would happen? Or, which two heroes would I most like to solo play with, and is there some way I could justify putting them in a partnership?

Sure! Zealot has always been a solitary figure to me - he's not much of a team player, and he's quite obsessive, so that doesn't lend itself to the buddy system. Conversely, Bronze Beacon is still relatively inexperienced, and so she doesn't bring a lot of confidence to a partnership. Yet, somehow, it seems like these two might end up being a decent fit together. So, I did a new drawing of them together, and was thinking that I could put them in Echo City (since that city is largely undeveloped), and set my campaign there. Doc could always pop in, but it would mostly be these two. 

I need some kind of hook that keeps them together for a bit, and a 'big bad' with some kind of plan in the background to get things rolling, but I think that this partnership might not be a bad place to start...