They aren't going to start the fight, the longer they delay, the more likely the team below finishes. To them, either not fighting, winning, or losing wins. So they have no reason to not try, as long as you guys don't go lethal on them.
Sorry, guys, busy day at work, will try to catch up with the big number of posts soon.
No problem Snap.
BTW: Here's how we're going to do this, since they are waiting on you to start, you guys get to start. However, we go in DEX order as usual. So, if on your side you decide that say, Aegis is going to do the first thing, then Aegis goes, then everyone before Aegis goes in Dex order, then everyone after Aegis in DEX order.
If there are any readied actions, those will go off in descending DEX order. For example, if everyone readies and action, and then Aegis kicks it off, then we'll go in Descending order of readied actions (note! Readied actions interrupt actions, so technically if everyone readies an action to attack 'When Aegis Does' then the everyone interrupts her and she goes last).
Yep! But I guess I started it by bouncing off of the walls... so uh... guess I'm gonna have to go around and through the door after all
Actually, you missed that Mud started it when he headed for the stairs.
At work, can't post yet, but feel free for aegis to go first if she checks in first. Pink is her suppress, yeah.
If it's not any sort of action to check how solid the 'mirror' is, then Pulse will swap out her 4" suppress for her 8" create magnetic field... better to break their toys than just suppress them, probably. Centered on self, everyone's gonna need new cell phones, I think. :)
I can't grab the pink circle for some reason. :(
I moved it down because it was making it hard to move things. I can get rid of it when you tell me.
When Hotaru reaches out to touch the mirror, it retreats from her hand.
Is it still 'my action'? If so, I'll post, if trying out the mirrors took my turn, that's fine, too. :)
Trying to touch the mirror was a free action.
At a conference until wednesday with way worse wifi than I thought (to be fair we're at a secluded mountain lake). Phone's picking up intermittently, but might not be able to post feel free to bot me in this + other game.
Snap's next action would be swinging around the building or over the roof, whichever's faster, then trying to enter and fight with the party via grab/disarms etc.
BTW: Haven't been listing Blaze because my assumption is he's holding his action outside. Let me know if that's not the case.
BTW: Haven't been listing Blaze because my assumption is he's holding his action outside. Let me know if that's not the case.
Nope. You've got it about right. The confetti within is kind of making Blaze reluctant to enter the building. And in RL, I'm very disappointed with the designers in China. I sent them a set of master pages to work by, and their first run looks like they didn't even look at them. I'm getting this sinking feeling I'm going to be busy for a while. I might even be heading to Shenzhen, language barrier or no. Will keep you updated as I know.
Youch. Well, enjoy the food while you are there if you have to go.
If Rocket doesn't post by this evening, I'll bot him. I don't want combat to bog down. Aegis appears to be bogged down with RL.
Sorry, I *am* very backed up on writing projects at work. I'll try to post promptly but please don't hesitate to bot me either.
No problem, will do.
And yes, Pulse is correct about the order. I figure you lot should be up on when you go by now. :)
Oh, I forgot to post it, but when Queen told Jester to ghost Yellow, the music in the room changed.
They just love their theatrics, huh? :P
Well, that was certainly much more effective than I expected... Nothing like a lucky head shot to alter events.
If it makes any difference, Pulse's eyes were closed, so she could see neither attack ;)
Still, someone messed with Violet's HoHo, which is Not Okay (tm, pat pend)
Hmm... the tiger wasn't something the rest of us could see/attack?
Assuming nothing hurts Pulse, she'll be out until after -next- post12, and even then, getting up will be a dumb idea. Have fun, folks
Rocket is out for the forseeable future as well, unless someone can bust this wall of paper.
Mud has left the room.
Aegis, you game?
In the meantime, I'll take a recovery as my next action.
Correction, I went back and looked, and after her first recovery, she'd get a recovery on phase 3.
What will I need to roll to not be absolutely wrecked by them for not immediately turning on my forcefield?
Does the wall of paper go all the way up to the ceiling? If so, our best bet might be breaking through the ceiling or floor.
If Pulse needs a medievac, though, I can get her out of the building in one action.
The wall of paper is an englobing force wall (most likely). When Rocket hit it, it entangled him and englobed him instead of Queenie. I've got a pretty good idea of how it works, but I don't think we'd have that information in game.
Basically, it's just a domed cylinder of superhard paper surrounding Rocket.
As for what Pulse needs, *shrugs*. Right now, she's on the ground, post 12 she'll be less unconscious. Post-3 she'll recover to conscious. But she'll still need recoveries to get her forcefield up and be able to move much at all. I'm fine with leaving her on the ground, as it'll burn their resources to keep hitting her, and they'll have likely moved onto other threats by the time she's getting up.
OOC, I wouldn't worry about her. IC, it's really up to you guys as Pulse doesn't have much to say right now. :P
The tiger is just a special effect of the attack. It could be a tiger, or a paper airplane. If you were able to look, you'd see it spring into being out of the paper on the floor, run forward a few inches off the ground, and slam into Pulse. But the illusions are stopping you.
Violet can explain why the illusions are so much of a pain after the fight.
Yes, the GM is teaching you more about the system by making things difficult. :)
My attempts at building things within the system have fast-tracked such things. :)
Unfortunately, quite a lot of my 'nifty ideas' just wind up with a ton of GM fiat. Like, I could probably have a better idea of things, but values change based on setting, as well as based on DMiness, and based on actual expectations. *flails about*
Plus, there are ideas that I have that don't neatly fit the system, like having drawbacks that can have benefits, but overall just make for neat and theme-fittiness.
It's not that I can't make it. It's just trying to figure out which puzzle pieces fit best.
Also, I really want to play my old character Phoebe in this system. And Alicia... though that one's a mess. There are some neat themes that I could drag in from other NPCs that have shown up, though. (Plus, free Hunted! Well... sort of free.)
I'll be traveling for most of the next week with uncertain internet, feel free to bot me as needed.
Headed to class will get a post up when I get home about 4-5PM sorry
Left the wall to Mud since he said he wanted to throw it and Aegis won't get in the way
In other words, I avoided becoming the top story on Fox News on why metahumans should be interned, right?
What is the highest amount of flash you feel is reasonable to buy on an AoE power at this time, Kittiface?
Flash became pretty underwhelming when it switched to effecting by phase instead of segment...Unless it's being used on a speedster
I like flash, personally. It seems like a pretty solid offensive tool even when it's not their turn, and a pretty solid defensive tool when it is. So it's more powerful when used to hit people with speeds different from your own. What it's not really useful for is hitting people with high defenses or aoe attacks. But typically, forcing enemies to use AoE attacks reduces single target damage to be more manageable and just not targeting 'the Aegis' of their team with the blind, except to limit their offensive options seems a good buy.
I'm sorta wanting to get something like 5d6 sight flash explosion, possibly with other adders/limitations. Since it'd fit into my multipower, it'd not be all that expensive, and since Pulse seems to be the lowest on the damage totem pole (unless hitting high armor, low DCV targets), I'm sorta looking for a way to give her more to do in combat - preferably from a safe distance.
Edit: It is worth noting that I'm not upset about being on the floor. Again. :|
:) I understand why they went for Pulse; the tank just kinda ran off to pull aggro on more enemies, and Pulse managed to not only pick out the right target, but land a hit. If either of them are good at deduction or analysis, there's a good chance that they'll realize that no one's targeting the right one as soon as she's KO'd... though once blaze reaches the window, he can likely forward locations using his infrared vision - something I didn't suggest in character, because I'm not sure Pulse knows he has it.
the tank just kinda ran off to pull aggro on more enemies
I getting kinda tired of these comments, from Pulse and Aegis.
1. Aegis's last action proved why Mud left. She can't hit water if she fell out of boat with all of the illusions. And, neither can Mud.
2. Yes, Mud knows where Queenie is, but I bet that she has a wall around her just like Rocket. Mud (I) didn't think about targeting the wall until recently, and it may not work anyway. We'll see.
3. Queenie and Jester are a distraction. They effectively said so. So, the goal is not to do what the bad guys want, which is to engage the distraction.
4. Mud tried something else, and it didn't work. So what? What directions did he not follow? He did stuff when no one was deciding anything. At worst, he accepted more risk by trying to engage the non-distraction, before they were ready to be engaged, which Pulse recognized a couple of times in character.
5. I doubt MDT will allow Blaze to call indirect fire on Queenie and Jester using IR. That was the first thing Mud tried to do when he spotted Queenie, and it did not work. (Back then, he reversed the names of Queenie and Jester, since he's never been able to sense Jester.
And that is how Pulse is going to refer to it in character as well, using MMO Jargon. That she needs to wait until others have established themselves as threatening before she does anything overtly hostile; if she hits them while no one else has, she's a sitting duck so far. Pulse, as a teenaged girl gamer, will say it that way, so that's why I did.
I'm sorry that my in character voice came through and it frustrated you.
Out of character, I'm really frustrated lately, and Pulse is going to be really frustrated in character, so it's pretty likely that some of my frustration comes out in what I say, I apologize for that as well.
Mud is actually alright with what Pulse has said in character... so far.
;D
Alright everyone, calm down. These two are not all that difficult, they're just working well as a team, and you guys are not.
Mud can tell where Queenie is, and he missed last time because she had a wall around her. He has not sensed one around her at this time, just around Rocket.
Pulse could tell exactly where she was, she just missed, it wasn't a very good roll.
The illusions are a pain, but not impossible to see through.
Nobody is trying to coordinate to make it easier to hit people, even when they do know where the girls are.
As the GM, I expected this to be a fairly short fight. Actually, it's not that long so far, it's been not even 10 seconds, so please keep in mind that while it's been a week or two RL, it's not even a full game turn in character.
The GM apologizes for not being more posting conscious, but has put in 30+ hours since Thursday, and has to work tonight as well, so absolutely slammed at work. Should clear up in the next day or two.
I'm calm, Kittiface. :)
I actually have constantly coordinated since the moment I was able to spot the enemy, until I was knocked unconscious. I even did a teamwork attack with Aegis when she dropped down when Pulse asked her to, still both missed, but we tried. :) Even attacked from opposite sides in case we could get a 'flanking' benefit of some sort.
I've also been working a frustrating amount. 9 hour days all day this week until yesterday, which was 8. It's a miracle I have today off. 10 hour days pretty much all of last week, and the week before... so on and so forth.
Looking back, the attack I coordinated with Aegis (which told her which was real), her roll would hit a DCV8, and mine would hit a DCV6. One of us would have been behind her, and I think it's like half DCV without specific abilities (Defense Manuever) to ignore that, and more DM to ignore the -1 to DCV for us coordinating.
Aegis was, unfortunately, attacking blindly, which does horrible things to her OCV.
There's also the confetti which is causing a -2 OCV.
So actually, you hit a DCV 4, not 6.
Alrighty :)
I did recognize that it was a poor roll, but had hoped the coordination would help. She probably shoulda rolled a perception check, too, to see them, I think, but everything is everywhere in this fight, unfortunately.
I also didn't want for you to have just missed it, cause I know how easy missing things can be.
To be fair, I'm moving soon and am ridiculously stressed out.
The game is not nearly as stressful (For me) as the move. :)
And being real, these are some pretty hefty illusions. In-character, I'm sure Violet will be frustrated if we can't even take one of these guys out and bring them in to justice, because we haven't really done much in terms of Being Heroes overall (not counting the earthquake humanitarianism), but we can't win 'em all.
Out of character, it's a game and it's supposed to be fun. I'm having fun. I think we all are, minor gear-grinding aside. :)
Oh, this is probably my... second or third favorite game right now. They jumble around a little. It's between this, Kawaii Cataclysm and WotR at any given moment.
Until Pulse was KO'd this was the current favorite, but just... kinda twiddling my fingers for 1+weeks minimum puts a damper on the amount of love I have. :P
*Twiddles Fingers* :)
I'm cool over here--though I think Rocket has a reasonable chance against the Jester if Aegis or Mud busts him out of his cage. Until that, I'm out of commission too.
So, do you wanna hold your action until someone digs you out, maybe?