Stay dry, boss!
Ok, I'm going to have to bot Aegis at this point.
Before I do so, I have a question, we've been doing this fight for awhile, and I don't see you losing it, especially since Queenie is down to about 5 endurance and 18 stun. Even if she gets a recovery, it wont' extend the fight more than another turn.
Would everyone be ok with me wrapping it up as exposition instead of playing it out? The duo literally have no way of winning at this point.
I'm fine with that, yeah.
I suspect it means the folks downstairs are going to get away, but yeah, if you want, go for it.
Primary concern for me is that we stick to the plan of causing little to no property damage. Fight could have been over a lot more quickly if we'd ignored that. :)
Also, that the Magician doesn't show up, snatch the paper girl because she's tanky, and disappear. Also important to my brainspace. :P
Your call.
I'll say, don't worry if the way things plays out keeps Rocket unconscious for a while; I'm square in the middle of that intense writing time I mentioned a bit ago, and will be for another couple weeks...and then on/off again for a month or so.
You're the GM, mah man. I'll trust your judgement. For the record, Blaze will continue his attempt to root folks out in the sewer.
Go for a wrap.
Sorry I wasn't fast enough, whatever is easiest for the group.
No problem, this should make it easier. You won't have to catch up this way.
Post done.
Not sure if you all realized it, but you're up.
I'm at work so can't do reasonable posts. :)
You're the GM, mah man. I'll trust your judgement. For the record, Blaze will continue his attempt to root folks out in the sewer.
Just to be full honesty with you, this is a Federal Reserve, they actively try to keep people from being able to get information on the internal structure from the sewers. :) Something about not wanting people to be able to tunnel in to the reserve from underneath.
Can an AoE be targeted at a hex in sight, and then be allowed to spread to areas out of line of sight?
Yes, but since you can't see it, you can't be sure of what all you might hit... like hostages, innocent bystanders, etc.
Will Pulse's 'None of that Works!' (Suppress 2d6+1, All electro-magnetic simultaneously) actually damage objects/people? (By virtue of special effects or the like)
No, suppress never does damage. Now, other things may cause it to do damage (dead man switches for example, suppressing the switch can cause a boom!).
And does Pulse's suppression field have the effect of draining all electromagnetic that go into or pass through it, not just what originates there? (Book says GM's call)
Does it look like my fellow PC-Brainer is wearing armor (like the image's outfit is kevlar, rather than spandex)?
Depends on the special effect.
Hard to tell from the image, it's not a video image from a camera, it's Jester's mental image of him. So it's likely things are off from reality (imagine Harley Quinn's mental image of Batman and Joker projected into a hologram).
Yeah, I'm just trying to get an idea of if he's wearing actual physical armor or if he's got sparky defenses like Pulse. :)
*pokes the PCs with a pitchfork*
I prefer boops, kthx.
Relevant Post. You can find the other relevant posts in spoilers and such. "Tumor" is the keyword I used to find them.
How should we treat our stun/end and such. How long does it take for Rocket to wake up?
Unless someone starts working on him, about two weeks
He's way negative.
Vi might be able speed it up with a mind control attack, combined with shoving ice cubes down his pants or something.
Your stun and end will recover normally, and since you're time crunched, you'll have to keep track of combat rounds. You've used up one entire combat turn so far (you can take recoveries for all your actions if you want, provided you're not trying to wake people up)
So, the speed 4 characters (other than Pulse) could realistically take 4 recoveries, as an example? (Pulse rolled paramedics badly and moved to rocket a moment ago)
Theoretically. But that was what happened while the girls were making their ansers and getaway, this action is a new combat round, so Pulse could have taken 4 recoveries last turn, but hasn't this turn.
I think she'd have taken the recoveries. There was a risk the bad guys would blast her, but if that were a real risk, they'd have likely done it mid-fight. And we'd kept up our end, and they'd not used anything lethal... so Pulse trusts them. Mostly informed by her having information she feels makes them trustworthy. So I feel like it's reasonable to take at least 2, maybe 3. But she did move when they asked her to, as well, so a 4th is out.
For the future we'll have to see if anyone has invented healing potions stim packs.
I'm thinking something like this as group gear that would be usable upwards of 4 times and then be gone forever (at least until we bought more with more XP)
mdt, at current tech levels,is it possible such a thing exists and is accessible to us?
I was actually thinking of just raw first aid kits that we could replenish, to be honest. There's also the ability for Pulse to gain some 'I AM THE DEFIBRILLATOR!' powers, as well as the possibility of using magnetism to seal off wounds or the like. Aegis could easily pick up something to short term cover wounds, I'm sure. Violet could do mindy things like 'Just a flesh wound' to give like a temporary boost to stun, which is cool if we went that route. Mud can literally 'rub some dirt in the wound' or something as well as make casts out of pure stone. :P And we've always got the old fallback of cauterized wounds and heat to relax the pain away. :3 Rocket is clearly the best option at using a first aid kit... if he isn't splattered across the ground.
And if Snap were still here, new transformations could easily see her having like a healing sap or something.
I'm not sure about spending XP that will never recover (which is a very slowly gained resource) to use as a crutch to keep players able to play, though. I'd honestly say that's a really, really poor investment.
For 4 more points we could do that with 'two per mission' instead. And it's suck a whole lot less to use them. Unless I'm reading things wrong.
Sure Rocket, it's called Adrenaline. Inject into bloodstream.
Just beware the side effects (heart attacks, embolisms)
If we're just using it as a way to pick people up 'between' fights, we can also easily add 'extra time', as well.
If we're going to get some kind of med kit, IMO it'd be better to make it recharge even if it's slower so our XP doesn't vanish
The GM needs people to declare actions, so he knows what they are doing.
On a side note, The Tick is now out on Amazon Prime, and is the only superhero show where you'll hear the term 'weaponized syphilis' in the pilot of the show.
Speaking of 'The Tick'. One thing I've been curious about: What Genre are we in?
How extremely unlikely are we to get Rocket back up before we go down?
In the event it seems unlikely, we need to definitely not just leave him out in the open for someone to peel his helmet off. That'd be rude of us.
Mud has pushed the limit of actions before he separates from the party, which I don't want to do...
Yeah, I'm trying to get things handled as rapidly as I can, but I don't really know what's available to me.
We've been told that without rocket, we can't realistically clean the top floor.
Without cleaning the top Floor, Blaze is locked out again.
Without both, it's Mud, Aegis, Snap, Pulse, Violet, against a team mdt likely built for all 7 of us.
And these guys actually want to kill us, in at least one case.
So I'm trying to get things taken care of before we head down to possible death. Is there anything you can think of that Mud can do to try to help with cleanup or waking Rocket or the like?
Can't Blaze turn off to go in the elevator? Is he naked or something?
Rocket is gone for awhile. So, let's not stop the game.
Any more waiting is meta-gaming about how many bad guys they were built for.
Let's go. What's the worst that can happen? Character creation?
Yeah, the worst that can happen is losing a character that I'm very attached to and I enjoy a great deal. :P
I was under the impression that Blaze's 'costume' is 'being on fire'. So if he takes it off to go in, it reveals who he is. If he doesn't, his special effect 'splodes everything. Not super sure there, though, and am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
He could turn it off, but you'd want him inside when he did, then turn it back on after he's back in the elevator or something.
She took *most* of the paper with her, there's still enough scattered around that he's a fire hazard. Not that it will explode anymore, now it's more like tossing matches on a pile of paper. No explosion, but slow burns that can turn into big fires if left uncontrolled.
If someone were to find, oh say, a fire extinquisher in the building, that might work to keep him from setting the place on fire while he walk sthroug (hint hint)
Is there a fire extinguisher near the elevator? :P
I've found that they tend to be mounted in stairwells, after all. :)
You could check the stairwell that Mud explored earlier
Even if it doesn't split attention it gives us a bigger space to go in, IMO it's the best we've got
Everyone ready to go in or have a different idea?
I think we've made the preparations we can. As long as there's a way to get up top, Pulse would rather be 'up' the elevator than in the enclosed space when the dinner bell rings for the bad guys to nuke us.
Snapdragon will take Rocket and head out using her powers to out run the cops, possibly through the sewer.
I can be anywhere especially bait. Just tell me your preferences
I have the vault area map done up. I need to know who is going down in the elevator, and who isn't. If you want to go down the shaft without bringing the elevator up, I need to know that.
If you're going down the stairs, I need to know in what order.
I'm currently going through a lot of mentally exhausting stuff. I'm trying to keep my head above water enough to keep up with posting in my threads. If I slip, please point it out to me and I'll try to do better.