Justice League Generations (Inactive)

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"So their homeworld, more likely than not? That is...troubling."

That is, apparently, the name of the place where Starro is from. I guess the 60's were simpler times.

Kara seems visibly shaken, but takes a moment to calm herself. 'Okay, everyone, this kinda verifies what we already know. Lord Starro is controlling the star...thingys. And they are digging out a kind of ship, and the ship has the portal, and the portal is the portal that will bring Lord Starro here is in the ship that they are digging out....under a log in the bottom of the seaaaaaaaaaa.

Whew. Alright, _now_ we can get going.'

She spends a moment looking at Captain Aterro. When he silently nods, the topic of their conversation is obvious.

Sinter flies toward the ocean floor, feeling the steadily increasing pressure. Below him, he begins to see dim lights. At first he thinks it is a trick of the pressure on his eyes, but then he remembers he doesn't exactly have eyes.

Spread out below him is a seemingly infinite field of mud and rocks. Here and there, vents of black boiling water shoot into the colder water. They look a bit like oil geysering out of a Texas prairie. Strange lights like the bulbs of angler fish dot the area, providing a weak light.Exposed in the mud is a ring that must be 100o feet across, made of a glimmering silver metal.

Like worker ants, Starrophyte infested Atlanteans flit about.

As he watches, Leviathan and Manta sink towards the floor. Strangely, none of the beasts or Atlanteans rise to resist them. Sinter watches in growing horror as the metallic tentacles of the Leviathan extend toward the ring, each tentacle finding some sort of port in the ring and snapping into it, as though they were made for each other. The portal begins to shimmer more quickly, and glow more intensely. It rises slowly out of the muck, and perhaps something begins to quicken within its boundaries, a strangely flat surface that wavers and flickers.

"Uh, guys I think we're getting hoodwinked! Leviathan is interfacing with the ring!"

Wait huh? I thought you said Manta got on the sub?

The dark armored figure lowers his head and jets downward in the wake of Leviathan.

'Oh no.....'

A bubble of water churns angrily as Kara refreshes the adrenal boost on the squad members. Frenzied thought-grams go back and forth, but, even behind their helmets, all who see them know they share a single thought.

"Affirmative. Whatever it takes.

Whatever the cost."

The LexSec fly/swim down to the Leviathan, separating out and heading for where a limb connects to the body. If one looked closely enough, they could see the times on the plastic explosive are already set.

The countdown begins, so not even their deaths can stop the great Lord Exothermia from holding court.

***"Mayday! Mayday!"*** Kara frantically calls out over her comm back to LexCorp HQ. "Leviathan is full compromised! Repeat: Leviathan is FULL compromised by a third party NOT of the original contract signer! Unable to regain control! Blow now! I say again blow now!

Twelve-Twelve dammit! Twelve-Twelve!***"

Giving it off as a low-probability, Kara falls back on what she knows.

'Alright Manty. Looks like you and I get to have that throwdown after all!'

Mind Control, B**&#!: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

"Umm, does this mean I start blasting? I'm kinda confused here. " and he starts to maneuver to engage Manta.

'YOU KILL EVERY F*@!ING THING THAT IS NOT US BY MELTING ITS FACE WITH FIRE!!1!'

Kara only has one rule.

No betrays her.

And lives.

Well that's clear enough.

and he sends his most powerful bolt at the treacherous Black Manta.

power attack
to hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 DC 30 toughness.

Sinter's bolt races past Black Manta.

Black Manta mind control 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (20) + 20 = 40.

Imagine finds that she is like a gnat pushing on King Kong's arm. Manta's mind is suddenly untouchable.

Shale, Dolnam, Shudder, I think you have an action (not sure if Dolnam's action was recovering).

Took me a bit to see if i.could perform this action in one round, or if it ran afoul of Array limitations. Looks like it will work.

Shale phases through the hull of Manta's sub once again, and moves virtually instantaneously to a point just above the partially buried ring, beneath the belly of the leviathan. Once reaching this starting position, he lashes out with blinding speed. Lashing out with his oversized sword, he moves rapidly from target to target, striking at each of the Leviathan's tentacles, attempting to sever them from the main body of the automaton. Along the way, he strikes at Mantis and any of his troops in the water, seeking to disable the villains.

This is the Rapid Attack ability, allowing him to make a melee attack at each target in a 75ft radius. As the ring is 100ft across, he should be able to reach every point of the ring, given his starting position at the center. While the Leviathan was previously being treated as a single entity, it seems appropriate given the situation and size differences to treat each tentacle as a separate target. Since his main target is the limbs, and they are likely hard to miss given their current docking maneuver, he'll power attack, changing that he'll likely miss Manta as a result.

1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
DC vs. Drain Toughness(Affects Objects): 36
Toughness DC:36

Should that drain toughness DC be 26?

Oh, sorry, saves are 10+PL, not 15+PL. It still benefits from power attack though, so it would be DC 31 in this instance.

Engage GM Fiat. Everyone gets a Hero Point

Shale zips about in fine Anime fashion, speed lines flashing as he lashes out at the tentacles, severing each of them in turn.

At the same moment, LexCorp failsafes implanted into the Leviathan are activated, exploding across and within the alien construct, sending pieces of it winging past you and in all directions.

Unfortunately, the necessary energy has already been infused. The flat field within the ring solidifies, and through it pours some sort of psionic energy. From all directions pour starrophytes, swirling in the center like horrifying sea monkeys. The galaxy of star fish congeal into a massive creature from beyond your nightmares.

A bit of metagaming here. So far, you have mostly been fighting things at or below your PL, so you've been fine just thwacking them. This thing is fighting out of your weight class. It is your first real team challenge. Using some of the cooperative stuff in the combat chapter is probably desirable.

Initiative list has Starro going first, or was assembling himself his first action?

Yes, sorry. The assembling takes a moment.

"Ruh Roh!" Sinter will utter over the radio frequency used by the team while he waits for someone smarter (everyone) to come up with a valid plan.

'Whoa.

Avengers! Assemble!"

The LexSec halt their advance and form a screen.

The water in front of Imagine begins to boil and writhe, as if fighting against energies charging up in their mists.

'Line up, one and all! Come and get your medicine boys!'

Any that get in a sphere near Imagine will get a physical boost. +12 to Str, Dex and Con.

Sinter will follow instructions, though he's a bit fuzzy how medicine will work on him.

To everyone who steps up to receive some of Kara's sweet, sweet "medicine," they feel like a jar of lava is poured into their skulls and swiftly slides into all of their limbs, infusing their body with liquid lightning-fire.

Oddly, Sinter also feels the sensation, but since it doesn't bother him as much, he also can -just- make out a far-off sweet voice saying, "Welcome to LexCorp. Soul-splice engaged." The phrase is meaningless, but seems to hint that the power bases itself on more than simple biology.

Shale sees the creature forming, and decides to strike as it is still forming. He blazes by the creature, striking with his sword, returning to a position that will allow him to be within Kara's sphere of influence in order to receive whatever kind of enhancement she has in mind.

He goes first, so he'll hit it fast and return to get the buff(s) on Imagine and Dolnam's turns.

"I will strike it hard. Imagine, if there is anything you can do to shield us from this being's potential psychic influences, it would be appreciated."

Shale is not really any more resilient to Mind-based attacks than your average Tank-character. Having him taken over by the enemy might be less than ideal for our side.

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
That is a potential Critical for Shale, if it hits, and if the Starrobeast is vulnerable to criticals. I couldn't remember how sophisocated starfish physiology is, so I looked it up, and it looks like they do still have distinct internal organs, so I would think if his physiology is similar to theirs, he should still be vulnerable to such things.

Fort Save vs. Drain Toughness: 31
Toughness Save: 36

His body is composed of thousands of the Starrophytes, so he is immune to crits kind of like a swarm.

Fort save: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (5) + 21 = 26

So drain Toughness 5.

Toughness: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (16) + 24 = 40

Shale manages to carve away some starrophytes, but the mass seems unfazed.

Feeling rather funky now that Imagine did something to him, he bubbles his way over nearer to the big starfish thing and tries his luck with a blast.

"Die starfish thingy!"

power attack
to hit: 1d20 + 4 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 11 = 16 DC 35 toughness save.

"That worked a lot better in my head. " he mutters over the radio.

Waiting on Dolnam and Shudder?

Dolnam boosts his resilience to shoving attacks.

Boost 10 for Unstoppable Immovable 10 (Limited: Only in a turn I move).

The strange starfish amalgam ripples like a seahorse in labor. For a moment, you are convinced he is going to eject thousands of spores, but in fact it emanates an alternate reality. Waves of energy roll out from the massive humanoid Starro. The water around you warms and infused with a faint light, light that somehow comes from the creature even though it does not glow.

Then, its attention is drawn to the small plasma man nearby. Its massive central eye focuses its attention on Sinter. The thousands of starfish undulate and the huge thing floats toward Sinter, arms outstretched toward him. The arms flail near Sinter, but it seems unable to control its appendages for the moment.

New Round

Imagine smiles as so many healthy boys sample her sweet, sweet medicine. 'And, hey, I just wanna say, before we all die, that working with you all has been totally awesome...since you all get to SO give me credit for ordering the Leviathan's destruction! Wasn't that totes smart of me to call that in? I mean, imagine what this would look like if we had to fight that thing AND Leviathan, amirite?

Oh, hey, Sinter, since you're whiffing so badly, could you be a dear and go kill Mantis instead? I mean, he totally needs to die too ya know!'

The critically necessary speech done, Imagine MASSIVELY doubts that she'd be able to dive into that thing's mind, so she falls back to dirty, dirty violence.

A fragmentation grenade raises itself from her ammo belt and launches itself at velocity that could arguably be considered "relative".

Telekinetic throw Attack!: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22
Telekinetic throw damage = 15(base) + 25 Str mod = DC40.
And Explosive Blast 5, DC20

"Blast Mantis? I can do that!" he pipes up eager to be useful.

he targets Mantis and blasts away with his strongest bolt, and while he usually is a bit sketchy in accuracy when he channels so much power, the 'medicine' seems to work.
power attack
to hit: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (18) + 15 = 33 DC 35 toughness.

Imagine smiles as so many healthy boys sample her sweet, sweet medicine. 'And, hey, I just wanna say, before we all die, that working with you all has been totally awesome...since you all get to SO give me credit for ordering the Leviathan's destruction! Wasn't that totes smart of me to call that in? I mean, imagine what this would look like if we had to fight that thing AND Leviathan, amirite?

Oh, hey, Sinter, since you're whiffing so badly, could you be a dear and go kill Mantis instead? I mean, he totally needs to die too ya know!'

"Unless the Leviathan, being the key, is the only way to close the gate." Dolnam points out.

"I would prefer you not kill Mantis if you can help it. We have a justice system down here, as well."

Manta Toughness save: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13

Sinter's bolt catches Manta right in the face, knocking his helmet from his head like a football player, reveal a starrophyte stuck to his face.

"Well that explains a lot. "

Toughness vs Imagine: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (7) + 25 = 32

Stunned and Bruised

Kara pumps her fist in the water. 'Yes!'

She considers having the LexSec charge in and set charges...but if Dolnam is gonna be a pacifist about it. She has them fall back and maintain their screen.

'Fine. Mr. Dolnam, what's yer plan? Gonna arrest them? Maybe read them their rights? How about a public defender? Go ahead, try and puts cuffs on either of those bad boys right there. Good luck with that.

All of them.'

Then Mantis' helmet pops off.

'Whoa. Yep. Did -not- see that coming. Like, how the hell did he talk? He's been talking this whole time, right?

Alright, well, yep. He got us. That was a good one.'

'Fine. Mr. Dolnam, what's yer plan? Gonna arrest them? Maybe read them their rights? How about a public defender? Go ahead, try and puts cuffs on either of those bad boys right there. Good luck with that.

Oh, brief civics lesson: We're in international waters. Exactly which country's laws have they broken? And which court shall they be tried in? Got the extradition orders all set? You're thinking that UN aren't you? Nope, we're not acting on a voted-and-approved UN Security Council order, they don't gotta do jack. And where you gonna keep Lord Starro until we work out the jurisdiction? Gonna just pop him into Gitmo Cuba? OR are the Northy-norths gonna hold them in a wet thatch hut?

Just to be clear, is Kara intentionally missing that he specifically said don't kill MANTIS (nothing about the Starro) or...? =)

"I care nothing for the fate of the Starro. As neither human nor Atlantean they are not beholden to or granted the protection of our laws."

"Mantis, however, has committed multiple crimes against the people of Atlantis and Tierna No Oge. He should stand trial for his actions."

Hee. Kara never lets things like "facts" or "the truth" or "what you actually said vs. what she is going to accuse you of saying" stand in the way of word-stuff pouring out her brain and in to yours. You have been warned. ;-) Still, y'know, good luck arresting him though. =P

The starrophyte does not cover their mouth, just nose and eyes.

Dolnam steps out of the sub, and practically vanishes from view, leaving an underwater sonic boom in his wake.

He circumnavigates the globe once, twice, four times and on the fifth lap he lays into Lord Starro, Slamming the Dagda Spear into whatever looks like its most vulnerable spot.

Slam Attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

Initiating a Slam, which presumably hits for a save DC of 46 (Damage rank 12 plus 4 from Slam (with Accelerated Move) plus a further +15 speed modifier from Swimming). If this doesn't do anything, combo attack it is!

Toughness: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31
Fails by 15, so that is unconscious. Wow! You take a damage equal to half of that, so DC 33?

Dolnam slams the Spear into the massive central eye. Everything seems to slow down, reality becoming slow motion. The eye closes, knocking Dolnam back.

The conglomeration of starrophytes floats slightly apart as it begins to discorporate, but something tells you the conqueror isn't down for good.

Toughness: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26

Dolnam is rocked by his own attack, though not in nearly as bad a shape as his target.

He manages to send out: <"Hit the creature while it's stunned! Finish it!">

Sinter will blast away again.

power attack

to hit: 1d20 + 4 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 11 = 21 DC 35 toughness

Toughness save: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (7) + 24 = 31

Another bruise

Taking Dolnam's example, Shale accelerates, moving around the earth a few times before slamming into the monster's still form, lancing out with his blade as he strikes.

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Toughness: 1d20 + 16 - 30 ⇒ (10) + 16 - 30 = -4 The strike hits his own body with impressive force, and he grunts and he pushes through the mass of clasping starfish.

Dolnam's save should have been vs. DC 31, not 33. (His attack was 15+31, half of which would be 15+15 (or +16).

DC of 45 (Damage rank 16 plus 2 from Slam (with Accelerated Move) plus a further +12 speed modifier)

Fort Vs. Drain: 1d20 + 21 - 26 ⇒ (14) + 21 - 26 = 9 Saves
Toughness: 1d20 + 19 - 45 ⇒ (2) + 19 - 45 = -24 Dying
Original save +25 - 2 bruises - 4 points of my previous Drain attack remaining.

'Huzzah! A hit! A palpable hit! Glory to Dolnam! Glory to House of Tuatha! Now we can--'[/i] Imagine realizes that whatever stupid thing she was about to do is rendered mute by Sinter's continued attack, and then Shale hits the leader-less mass like a small meteor.

'Hmmmmm. Well, gosh, I guess that means that I get to play clean up on....Oh, look, Mantis doesn't have his boyfriend to hide behind any more.

Well...customize him!"

Aterro rolls his eyes at the death of the English language as the Lex-Sec sheath knives and turn off their explosives, moving toward Mantis, attempting to gang-tackle him in the fashion they had Aquagirl.

'Whoop, nope, where do you think you're going?' she sends to Mantis as she telekinetically joins in the attempt to wrap him up like a turkey-and-cheese lettuce wrap with a diet coke and a side of fit-into-my-little-black-dressing.

Kara and the LexSec crew quickly put Manta under wraps.

Punched soundly in his psychic starfish mouth, Lord Starro decides maybe this whole Earth endeavor is not worthwhile. The psychic energy pours out of the starrophytes, flowing back through the gate like oil in water. The water around you shimmers and returns to normal. The starrophytes remain, but without the attention of their master, they are listless and lack drive.

YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Primo Victoria!

'Alright, Dolnam. Go take custody of your prisoner. Then you're free to cart him off to whateverthehell court you think will get their fingerprints on that train wreck.

[to Aquagirl]Heya toots. How ya doin'? Um, look, are you at all captured or held hostage right now? Because it turns out B-M was one of the bad guys. Iknowrite? Who knew? Anyway, if you're captured, let me know and we'll come in hard. If not, let me know that too and we'll come in easy.'

That done, Kara, not really having a mental 'reading' on Mantis's sub, just uses the radio.

[to Mantis' sub:]"Oh hi! Hey guys. Um, look, your old boss, he turned. He's arrested now. Forget about him. Some of my boys are gonna come in and look after your boat. We're gonna get you back to the States. Lex-Corp is gonna debrief you all and we'll see what we can do.

Anyway, just open the f~&+ing airlock and let us in."

Four of the LexSec keep Mantis in a full-full-full nelson until Dolnam takes custody. Four others break off and chase Mantis' sub--soft or hard, they don't care.

Two others take out carry-alls and start trying to gather the starrophytes. If they behave, they get put in the bag.
If they don't behave, they get stabbed clean through, and -then- put in the bag.

Dolnam snaps a finger, and an elaborate cage of force constructs itself around Manta. His hands and feet are encased in globes, then trapped inside larger globes, keeping them together but separate. Lines of force run between them, drawing Manta's arms and legs behind his back and holding them rigidly there while he is also muzzled, blindfolded, ears covered, and uncomfortably scrunched by the restraints.

The restraints are tethered at multiple points of contact to the inside of another sphere of force, tethered and nestled inside a cube, and then a diamond. All three shapes spin independently, keeping Manta disoriented for the trip. The cage moves wherever Dolnam moves, maintaining a distance of 15 feet from him at all times.

Spending another point of Luck on Crate Object 11 (with the Tether and Precise Feats).

"Thank you for your aid."

The Manta Men open the hatch and allow Imagine and her troops into the sub. They are fanatics, but they aren't stupid.

This seems to fall into the realm of clean up, but feel free to write that up. Tie up any loose ends/epilogues you want. Everyone receives 1 power point. I'd appreciate a sense of what you get up to in between adventures. If there is anything you guys want to do, just let me know. Otherwise, I will roll out something new.

Sinter heads back to his custom apartment and catches up on sports games he's missed while adventuring. He also does monitor duty on the satellite as it's just watching more holo.

He's not a particularly ambitious sort.