(2) - Dawn of the Metahumans

Game Master mdt

Ok, so, Rocket get's a +12 to counteract time modifiers. Each migration down on the chart is a -3 to his skill, so he has the levels to move that down 4 levels at most. That means he can turn a 1.5 hour job into a 1 turn job if he makes his base skill roll. He did, so it's a one turn job. So, at the end of post 12, the job will be complete.

PHASE 3, Snap Dragon Up!

Snapdragon tries to see the enemy metas again.

PER: 14 - 3d6 ⇒ 14 - (5, 4, 6) = -1

And, failing this, hauls herself up onto the upper floor balcony to try an get a better vantage. "Anybody got ink or something?!" she shouts out to the rest of the team.

Sorry again for the delay, was waiting for a recap, didn't get one. I finally had time to read through 2 pages of posts to get track of the end expenditures again

"QUEEENIE! Captain Vibrator is cleaning up all my paper! Use your Imperial Wrath to stop him!"

"How about you just put him in under a cup again?"

"Oh! Queenie, you're so smart! Why don't I think of these things?"

Paper swirls and slams into place around Rocket again, the edges of the paper slamming into the marble floor and cracking it as the sheets of paper land as if they weigh a few tons apiece. Inside, Rocket can see out through various cracks between sheets, but the paper might as well be concrete to the speedster.

Snap, having drawn attention apparently, sees in her mirror an image of a giant hedge clipper swooping down at her from behind!

Hit: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 6) = 8
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5

The hedge clipper slices through her image's ear, and her own ear spasms in pain as she feels the blades slice! 5 stun

You know who's up next, it's phase 3

Violet mental, technically, but my action can't change so I'll go ahead and post it. Recovery starts at round 3.

Pulse begins to stir as she begins to regain consciousness.

Now that I can post to the threads again, as last night was nothing but timed-out requests...

Violet, standing right over Pulse (more or less), reestablishes the Mindlink with her BFF as the other woman regains consciousness.

Then, to the entire team:

::They have some sort of mental barrier running... and I think it's coming from another source. Someone down in the vault, maybe. Snap, Mud, if you can both nail Queenie at the same time, we might be able to confuse Jester... she seems to only act when Queenie directs her. And I think maybe she's on real wires around the room? Is there some way to cut those, even if we can't see them?::

She pauses for a moment, then adds:

::What if three of us tried to put a hurt on Queenie at once? Can we manage that? We go when Mud says?::

Violet is holding her action to coordinate with Mud on his action.

::Ugh. Did anyone catch the license plate on that tiger..?:: Pulse asks, mentally bleary. She takes a moment to note where the two enemies are, then convey it to the others once more at the speed of thought.

That will require Pulse to have an action, right now, she's just woken up and is still recovering from that.

PER-5: 15 - 3d6 - 5 ⇒ 15 - (3, 3, 6) - 5 = -2 Nope

::Oh no, not again! Mud or Aegis, can you help me bust through this thing again?

::If you're able, count to three and I'll match you from inside.::

Segment 3 -> 4

::OKay. Here goes again. One. Two. Go!::

Haymaker Push +10 Str: 18d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 6, 2, 3, 2, 2, 6, 4, 1, 1, 5, 2, 3, 2, 6, 4, 3) = 57 18 Body

50 - 15 = 35 End

Violet delayed to 4 to match Mud if he struck at Queenie - she is continuing to delay to see what Snapdragon does, or to dodge if actually attacked physically.

::I'm mostly blind here but I'll do what I can to help.::

Aegis would try to join in on the team attack even blindly swinging she'd hopefully at least cause some problems for the two.

Perception: 13 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 13 - 2 - (4, 2, 1) = 4

Team attack: 8 - 3d6 ⇒ 8 - (3, 3, 5) = -3
To hit: 16 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - (2, 6, 6) = 2
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 3, 5) = 13

Oh, huh, wasn't sure what was happening, but I think I got it.

Snapdragon held still as well, then lashed out as soon as she saw another team member attack the air. Delaying to follow Aegis

PER?: 14 - 3d6 ⇒ 14 - (5, 6, 5) = -2
Grab: 9 - 1 + 11 - 3d6 ⇒ 9 - 1 + 11 - (6, 5, 4) = 4
Grab dice: 8d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 6, 1, 6, 5, 2, 3) = 34

Aegis misses, although she does manage to see through the illusions long enough to find Queenie. Snap, seeing nothing, drops down where she hears the attacks going on, and flails about at random.

Mud leaps over to where Rocket is, and slams his fist into the paper wall...

Haymaker: 8d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 5, 1, 4, 6, 5, 5) = 34 8 body

Between them, Mud and Rocket manage to shatter the wall of paper again... but it took both of them to do it, and delayed Rocket.

"Queenie! Goldenrod is trying to kiss you! No fair! Stay away from her you gold coated skank!"

"Jester, if you say things like that, they're going to think we're girlfriends."

"But... but we are friends! And we're girls!" pulls top out and looks down "Yep! Still a girl!"

"That's not what I mean..."

"I don't get it..." Jester laughs

Aegis sees a nasty looking man with a big mask and a welding torch in her mirror, walking up behind her. Then her image is melted by the torch!

"Oh snap!" Jester says, sounding annoyed.

Blaze, outside, flies up and around the building to the north. Cameras from the local television station follow him, and people comment and yell, some cheer, some jeer, and some make threats or call him a demon or sub-human.

As he flies around, looking through the windows, he finds that all the windows on the east and north side of the building have been papered over, blocking his site. Even the massive glass sky-light on the roof has paper plastered to the inside of it.

The paper in the skylight is arranged in a mosaic to read :

Naughty Naughty, bad sniper! Bad Sniper! Momma Spank!

Segment 6, DEX 30

"Yow! Punching paper should not smart like that."

Rocket shakes out his fist and then dives back into sweeping paper into bags and out the door.

Continuing to clean up paper. Should be complete at end of Seg 2 of next turn, if I understand correctly.

"Jester, he's stealing your paper again."

"No Fair! Bad PE boy! Bad PE Boy! I'm gonna tell everyone about your PE problem if you don't quit it!"

"Just put it all back again, you can gossip later."

"Yes your majesty!"

The paper in the room explodes throughout the room, sheets rising up off the floor, shredding into confetti, and then surges in a huge wave that washes over everyone, undoing what Rocket did earlier, leaving the room full of paper again.

Perception checks

The images slam back into place around Rocket. In the mirror, an angry super model with a chain saw brings the chainsaw up between Rocket's legs!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 4) = 9
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8 Rocket takes 8 stun to the nads, after defenses (and all that stuff), and his nads ache

Everyone else on 6 up

Per: 15 - 3d6 ⇒ 15 - (6, 6, 5) = -2 Wow that's a terrible PER roll. :(

"Ooooph!!" Rocket grimaces at the pain...and about seeing all the paper back where it was before.

Perception Check

Perception Roll, 13-: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) = 12

Probably not good enough.

Perception success by: 13 - 3d6 ⇒ 13 - (3, 2, 2) = 6 I got dis.

Mindlink: ::Ugh, okay. I think jester is the one doing the psychic stuff, and Queenie is the paper person... maybe? Queenie is the one that just did the confetti thing, and Jester is the one that attacked Rocket. Not sure how that helps us, but I could still see the paper when everything else was clear.::

I think it suggests that Queenie is the right target for Vi, as she's likely to have a lower ego than expected of an illusionist, maybe?

Violet already mentioned that Queenie is heavily protected against mental attacks. Pretty sure Pulse was awake for that. It's actually very frustrating for Violet, but no one except maybe Rocket will ever know. It might even lead her to try and develop TK to counter such things, but that'll take a while.

Not that Rocket would be able to tell with the PER roll he just got...but is it possible that what you noticed was Queenie creating an illusion of paper to make the cleaning harder?

Sure! But she also saw through the illusion to see that. If there were another illusion (what I expected) for the second paper blast, I'd have expected to get another roll, or with a roll that good to have actually seen through it. She -did- see you get 'hit', but didn't see any visual effect showing you getting hit. Just your response to it and the timing cues that resulted. So she communicated seeing jester hit you. Wording I'd intentionally imperfect; I don't think she's gonna be super careful with wording overall, unless she's asked to be.

Segment 6

With Rocket out of a cylinder, Mud leaps toward Queenie and haymakers the expected wall surrounding her.

leap 5" toward Queenie. Mud's been able to sense her before

Segment 7

Haymaker: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 4) = 11
Damage: 14d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 3, 6, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 5, 1) = 41

End 35-5 = 30 / 50

Snap Dex, Blaze Dex, Ego Violet, Pulse/Violet Dex, Aegis remaining. Remember that it's possible to delay and use teamwork to increase everyone's chance to hit if you succeed.
Turn 2, Segment 6, Dex 18
Recovery to 28 stun, 28 end

Pulse stays quietly on the floor, looking around, and presenting the least threatening target she can. She keeps her eyes open this time, as not seeing the zombie hadn't stopped it from nomming her - or more accurately, getting tigered in the face. If she didn't have her shield up, that would probably keep them from attacking her, too, right?

So, instead, she uses her mad Radar skills to share with her team where the opponents actually happened to be, but otherwise just... rested a bit.

Mindlink: ::No, no, Aegis. Not that one, the one to Snap's right. Just move around ten feet to your left two hexes, Aegis and she'll be between both of you.::

PER: 14 - 3d6 ⇒ 14 - (5, 4, 5) = 0

People kept calling out the location of the enemies... and she kept missing them. Snapdragon was growing frustrated—she was supposed to be the one who could see and respond with the most precision.

Still. She remembered, in the last fight, how she had been swatted out of the air... and so she expanded, transforming into something hard and wooden, as she trotted across the room to within grabbing range of the second-floor ledge.

Changing to oak stance and moving to where I could tear out the balcony and use it to AoO a hex next turn.

You do know that the balcony here is made of concrete, it might be hard to tear out a big enough chunk to make an AOE. Something your character would know. Rocket goes before you go on 9, and goes on 8.

PHASE 7

PhASE 8

Rocket up

Frustrated by his work being undone, Rocket looks around to regain his bearings.

PER: 15 - 3d6 ⇒ 15 - (6, 2, 3) = 4

Wondering if it seems the cleaning clock has been reset, and also wondering if I can spot our two foes clearly (and any obstacles between us).

Rocket sees where Queenie and Jester are

Yes, your cleaning up has been wiped out

The paper still interferes with your sight, but not as bad as the images do. No obstacles per say, although Jester is bouncing on a wire making her harder to get at. Queenie is over by Aegis/Snapdragon

Oh, I got phase-confused. Still, there's tables on the balcony.

Thanks! I'm hoping to coordinate a teamwork attack with someone(s) so would love a bit more detail about what I see. Can you let me know which hexes they're in? No obstacles means there's no wall of paper I see surrounding either of them, right?

Rocket projects to his allies, ::I'm thinking of faking that I'm still cleaning, and then coordinating an attack. I can guide you toward either Queenie or Jester. Who's in?::

Waiting to hear if someone replies...

You do know that the balcony here is made of concrete, it might be hard to tear out a big enough chunk to make an AOE. Something your character would know. Rocket goes before you go on 9, and goes on 8.

PHASE 7

PhASE 8

Rocket up

Ok, ignore this one. Restarting 6 with Mud's attack

Mud lands near Queenie, and punches as hard as he can. However, he misses her completely. He does not hit a wall though.

Snap changes forms.

Pulse tries to direct Aegis. Note to Pulse and Rocket, I haven't had a chance to update the 'what you actually see' map, so Queenie is actually between Aegis and Snap (before snap moved). Aegis just missed hitting her with the penalties from the paper

Rocket, you can see her on this phase, if you wait to another phase, the images will reset and you'll have to pierce them again

Sigh. If coordinating on 9 means I'd lose my PER roll, I'm probably best off attacking now. If folks who're supposed to act on 9 want to delay until my DEX on 10, maybe we should do that instead? Meantime...

Rocket fakes forward as though he's still trying to clean up the mess and then pivots on a dime and does his best to ram right through Queenie. As he does he hollers, "Hey! One way or another, it's cleanup time!"

Move Through: 11 + 10 - 4 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 10 - 4 - (3, 1, 2) = 11 Wow, that may've actually hit.
Dam: 11d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6, 5, 5, 4, 6, 5, 2, 4, 2) = 44 Rocket takes 22-14=8 STUN
KB: 13 - 2d6 ⇒ 13 - (1, 5) = 7 Aiming her toward the pillar.

Let me see, OCV 10, -2 for confetti, is 8 OCV. 8 - 4 for move through is 4 OCV. You rolled a 6... that is just barely enough to hit. :)

Location: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 1) = 10 Chest

Ranged Attack, to hit pillar: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2) = 11 That would be a no, with the penalties from the paper

Queenie (and all her images) go flying backwards skidding along the ground.

KB damage: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2, 1) = 12

Breakfall: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 1) = 11

Acrobatics: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 6) = 12

The background music changes, and the images reset in Rocket's vision

Perception, Aegis: 13 - 4 - 3d6 ⇒ 13 - 4 - (2, 6, 4) = -3

Aegis, unable to pierce the illusions this time, executes a full defense action to make herself harder to hit.

Phase 8, Rocket Up! Images are reasserted at the end of 6.

The angry cheerleader with the chain saw slams her blade into Rocket's sensitive nether regions again!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3) = 10
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 6) = 7

Again pain runs through his sensitive areas...

Phase 9, Snap

Ah sorry got distracted from PbP for a few days, summer's the worst.

Snapdragon runs across the room and leaps, landing on the balcony by the heavy metal table (and crashing through a window if necessary)

Phase 9, still waiting on: Blaze, Vi Mental, Pulse/Vi, Aegis, Mud

::I'm in, but give me a sec... gonna try something. You'll know when to go on my mark! Go for Queenie again, I think!::

Pulse climbs unsteadily to her feet, and sparks begin to hop across her skin as her force field jumps back to being active. She slowly spreads her legs into a wide stance as the sparks start to coalesce along her fingertips. She arches her arms behind her in a near circle so tht her fingertips just nearly touch. She intentionally looks in the wrong direction. "Ka-me-ha-me-"

On Segment 9, Speed 4, Dex 18, Violet does a half move, flying, directly back through the open door that she came in to the building through.

::I'm useless in this fight,:: she tells the team via the mindlink. ::I'm moving outside to coordinate with Blaze.::

Segment 9

Mud leaps next to Queenie again. "Come back here!" I presume that Mud knows where she is on the floor, because he has in the past.

I tries to coordinate with anyone else attacking Queenie and attempts to land a punch.

leap 5" next to Queenie. Mud's been able to sense her before

teamwork: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 1) = 7

punch: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 2) = 6

location: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 2) = 9
Damage: 10d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 3, 3, 5, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1) = 25

End 30-5 = 25 / 50

Segment 9—I believe this is when Blaze finally covers the total distance of more than 20", plus altitude gain

Blaze finished his circle around, coming up to the bank's second floor. If there was anything up here, he'd try and contain it.

::I'm close to the top now. Any special instructions?::

Sorry everyone, Queenie goes first on 9 after Snapdragon

Queenie kips up off the floor, seeming no the worse for wear.

"Ooh! See, I told you all those hours practicing were worth it!"

Queenie then glares at Rocket, and with her secret out, no longer holds back.

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 5) = 16 Unfortunately for Rocket, his DCV is 1 for ranged attacks because he's effectively blinded by the illusions, so she still hits, although just barely

Location: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 4) = 11 Chest

Damage: 2d6 + 1d3 ⇒ (1, 6) + (3) = 10 10 body, 30 stun, against PD defenses

KB: 20 - 3d6 ⇒ 20 - (2, 4, 2) = 12

Rocket Pinball off pillar: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 1) = 8

Rocket is, quite literally, rocketed back into the pillar behind him as a paper rocket in the shape of an scaled down Atlas III grows over Queenie's head and then slams into the speedster!

Pillar Damage: 8d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 5, 3, 1, 4, 1, 1) = 20 20 stun, 5 body, against defenses

Breakfall roll at -6 to remain on feet Rocket

Blaze gets to the top of the building, cameras rolling, and finds nothing else other than the message to the naughty snipers. There's apparently nobody on overwatch above other than Blaze.

@Pulse - Can't haymaker anything that doesn't hit PD or ED, so flash and NND are out. Plus Mud would have to wait to 10 to coordinate

Mud and Pulse finally get their timing down, and both slam Queenie, Mud with his fist and Pulse with her Kame-ha-me-haaa ball.

BTW: Mud, that was a horrible damage roll, 10 below average

The weak punch and the ball blast into her simultaneously, and she grunts, but remains on her feet.

Phase 10

"Now you're getting into it! Kame-hame-hahahahaha!" Jester says, and a Goku in the mirror in front of Pulse winds up and sends a blast into her belly!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) = 12
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6 6 stun

Rocket up, if still conscious

Pulse is planning to Coordinate with Rocket (since he asked so nicely!) if he's not been stunned, which she'd know before Queenie went, I think!

I think you mean before Mud went yes? As you couldn't possibly know if Rocket was stunned before Queenie went.

Yeah, that. :) 'Pulse would coordinate with Rocket like he asked if he's not stunned before her turn.' My bad. My brain says weird things sometimes. :)

Rocket being stunned, Pulse's acttack hits on 9 with MUD

Phase 10, Rocket gets a recovery

Mud sees a reflection in his mirror attacking him, a fireman with a firehose!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 4) = 15
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) = 9

The hose hits his image, and sends it splashing over the ground, although the details don't look very good, as if someone were guessing how Mud would splash on the ground, rather than knowing. His body aches a bit from the hit, but nothing like really getting hit with water.

Phase 11

Phase 12

Rocket's eyes flutter open, staring up at glittering confetti and mirrors from the ground of the reserve floor.

Rocket was not con-stunned, and recovered on 10, so he can take a full action this segment, although he'll need an acrobatics check at -2 to stand up as a zero phase action

Seg 10

"Yoiks!" Rocket hollers as the paper rocket narrowly misses him and crashes into the pillar.

On Pulse's signal, he runs back alongside Queenie, attempting to clock her with his outstretched arm just as Mud punches her and Pulse gives her a blinding zap.

Rocket attempts to run right past and over to where he sees Jester, trying to hit her as well.

________________

PER: 15 - 3d6 ⇒ 15 - (3, 2, 1) = 9 Not sure if we still need to make PER rolls at the start of each action. Either way, I wish that'd been an attack roll. Sigh!
Teamwork: 15 - 3d6 ⇒ 15 - (2, 4, 5) = 4
Winding Trail-moveby+teamwork: 11 + 10 - 2 + 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 10 - 2 + 2 - (4, 2, 4) = 11
Damage: 8d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 1, 5, 2, 2, 3, 6) = 26
Winding Trail-moveby: 11 + 10 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 10 - 2 - (6, 5, 3) = 5
Damage: 8d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 2, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1) = 21

Tracking:
BODY 14/14
STUN 15/38
END 34/56

Ok, this is going to get complicated with the ret-con, so please bear with me. We're also mixing some complex rules interactions

As Pulse, Rocket, and Mud all coordinate to attack Queenie, she realizes she's in trouble, and aborts her 12 action to activate a defense. One of the problems with haymakers is you are telegraphing your attempts

As Rocket and Mud both race toward her on 10, a solid wall of paper slams into place around her, mere inches in front of Rocket and Mud! This means that Mud and Rocket have to penetrate the wall first, then complete their attack on her, if they can damage the wall. Because they are not coordinating on the wall, if the first attack doesn't destroy the wall, but the second one does, the second person gets through but not the first one. I'll resolve the attacks in order of dex, meaning Rocket's first

Rocket's attack, even adding the two powers together, don't overcome the defense of the wall, and he slams to a full stop. He takes full damage from his own movethrough on the wall, but not the damage from the winding trail, in other words, 8 body 26 stun, applied to defenses

Mud's attack is also, by itself, not enough to penetrate the wall, and he slams into the wall as well. Mud takes 8 body 25 stun

If you had not haymakered, and attacked on 9, she wouldn't have been able to abort to throw up a defense, because she'd have already acted on 9. However, giving her advanced notice of the haymaker means she can respond to it. Had she had an action on 10, she could have simply moved to another hex and foiled the haymaker as well. Haymakers are powerful, but they are chancy in combat

Pulse's attack burns a small hole in the wall without any other apparent damage, and slams into Queenie making her grunt.

Phase 10

Apply stun already rolled on Mud with the firehose to Rocket instead, if he's up after running into the wall. If he's out, then apply it to Mud

Phase 12

Rocket up, if he's conscious. If not, he recovers. If he's conscious, he'll need to make a Breakfall check at -2 to retain his footing after running full bore into the wall. Note I should have probably done more damage to Rocket, since a move through does more damage than a move by, but it wouldn't have broken the wall by itself and I didn't want to be mean. :) Mud also needs a Breakfall at -2 to retain his footing after slamming face first into the wall.