Happy anniversary to my wife!

Any Superhero

With today being my 30th wedding anniversary, I'm inspired to provide some adventure seeds (or, where there's a bit more, adventure sprouts) related to anniversaries. So, a quick d6 worth:

1. A bad supervillain has escaped from prison and the heroes have to find him. Why today of all days? It's a significant wedding anniversary. Now, maybe it's sweet: one of them is dying and this is the last time (significant) time they can be together. Maybe it's sour: they're divorced, and this is the time when he wants her to remember him, and that he has power over her. But either way, the heroes figure it out and have to decide what side they're on.
2. One of the heroes has an anniversary today, and intends to get to his/her/their/its spouse, but things keep interfering: an earthquake, which traps some miners, and causes a prison break, and there are fires, and... Maybe other heroes try to help so that the hero can have just some time. Or maybe one of the escaped prisoners is an archfoe who knows all the heroes' secrets and makes a beeline for the spouse.
3. One hero (maybe a PC) is getting married, so it's time for the bachelor or bachelorette party. A superhero event like this? There will probably be shenanigans (tip of the hat to Gail Simone for that term and the idea!)

   How do the other heroes in the party deal with or even prevent the shenanigans while helping the chauffeur, whose wedding anniversary it is, but he/she/they has to work. The shenanigans probably involve a villain who wants to profess love, because that's thematically appropriate, so maybe the heroes have to face off the bad guy who wants to confess that he's always loved the bride, or the villain coming out of the closet and he's always loved the groom, or some villain who is re-enacting another villain's plan to show the object-of-obsession that it can be done right.

4. The heroes might think everything's on the up-and-up as they prepare for their own anniversaries, but details slowly start to reveal that their true love, retirement, and marriages are all part of a mental illusion. (Tip of the hat to Alan Moore, because this is mostly "For The Man Who Has Everything.")
5. The North Star is a fabulous gem and Rick Harper is going to give it to his wife as part of their anniversary. The North Star only comes out of the vault on special occasions like this, so several people have lined up crews to steal it...and there's a possibility that Harper hired at least one of them in order to commit insurance fraud.

6. "Twoo wuv..." can bring the dead back to life, if their love was pure. As zombies, I'm afraid.

   A candidate for the title of Earth's Eldritchiest has brought someone back to life (because they were only mostly dead), but the knock on effect of the spell travels throughout the world: Anyone whose love was pure is dragged from death so that they can be with their loved ones.

   • If you've only been dead half an hour, it works fine.
   • If you've been dead months or years, you are a reanimated shambling monster with one goal: to kill your beloved so they can join you in death.

   The heroes most likely notice it because one of them is dating a widow or widower, and the zombie is noticeable.

   I know, you're thinking, "Shoot'em in the head!" But disassembling the zombie doesn't work; they just put themselves back together and try again. No, the spell has to be reversed, which means finding out which candidate cast it, and convincing them to undo it...which might well kill the person they resurrected in the first place.