(2) - Dawn of the Metahumans

Game Master mdt

Pulse can take her held action now, then Blaze, Mud, and Vi can go

Note, the area shaded red is where the tesla arcs are, and this area is now dimly lit (it's lit only by the electrical arcs, as the arcs just blew out the lights!). So perception checks in the area are at a -4. Aegis, on the other hand, stands out clearly because her desolid form still has enough metal in the real world to make her an excellent conduit of electricity. Imagine her body outlined a bit like this. She's not affected by it (for now), but it's there.

Starting Endurance = 50 End - 16 (stairs) - 2x2x4 (desol) + 2x16 (post 12) = 50. To double-check, Mud's desol is a full phase to activate and a zero phase to deactivate, right?

Correct

Ego: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 1) = 6

403 Forbidden! on Aegislink

Starting End: 80-16+30=Endurance GET! >_>

10 body - 5 Rpd = 5 Body. 30 stun - 20 Pd = 10 stun. Sheet updated.

A string of low expletives crescendo as the guards go full death-squad as the doors open. A small, round hole appears in her superhero suit and there's a cracking noise, not entirely on the end of the bullet. Pulse wheezes out a breath as her hand clasps around nothing.

Hit: 10 + 6 - 3d6 ⇒ 10 + 6 - (2, 3, 4) = 7 Hit!
Suppress: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 1) + 1 = 4 It was super-inneffective

And a dull humming joins in on the tesla-coilless sparkstorm.

Aegis will break free on her next phase (3), and lose her action as she struggles to break free and does so. Assuming nothing happens in the meantime that is.

Are the guards the ones shooting at us, and if so, are they the staff for this building, possibly mind controlled?

Yes, the guards are shooting at you. They look like building security, at least, they are wearing uniforms like building security. They could be mind controlled, or they could be inside men, or they could be hired thugs wearing uniforms

Okay, that was what I wanted to know. I haven't been able to find a reference on past posts about whether or not there were hostages confirmed. I'm sure there was one, but I'm not finding it.

Seeing Aegis' eyes go blank, then clear again, Violet hopes for the best. Gliding quickly across the room to the first corner she sees (1/2 move to cover), she reaches out with her mind to the guard furthest on the right hand side of the next room try and shut one of the guards down.

Ego Attack Roll, ECV 8: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (3, 2, 1) = 13

Hit ECV 13

"You! Drop the gun!"

10d6 Mind Control: 10d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 5, 4, 6, 2, 5, 3, 5, 6) = 39

Hopefully they don't have the same mental defense overrides on them that Queenie and Jester did.

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4 4 Body
StunMult: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0 x2 stun, 8 stun

As Vi races out of the elevator and into the room, electricity arcs through her body, sending pain along her nerves. However, she manages to shake it off.

Vi manages to slam a command deep into the man's mind, and again encounters that extremely odd mental presence. Vi critted her hit, so she gets max damage Despite hitting so hard, she can't take over the man's mind. Something else has ahold of it, and the mental barriers are weakening her attack enough so that she can't quite shake him free.

???: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 3) = 7

However, she notices the man shake his head suddenly, and groan. "Get out of my head, you freaking ghost!"

Yep. I screwed it up.

Mud squeezes underneath the security door. Then, he soldifies and opens the security door.

Mud is behind a locked door. It will take him a half-phase action to squeeze through the very small cracks around the door, or he will have to wait until Pulse opens the door for him. Also, he won't be able to leap in here, the roof is only 8 ft high, and he needs at least 1/4 of the height of his distance leaping, so no more than 4 inches per leap in here.

"Hmm…I wonder…"

The question was, was it a funky forcefield or something between them and the bad guys, or something else? He had one possible way to find out, and maybe bring it down. He aimed high—over the heads of the guard, and let out a focussed fire blast

focussed fire blast at 'wall', OCV 7: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (1, 2, 2) = 13

8d6 fire blast-armor piercing: 8d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 1, 5, 5, 5, 3, 2) = 33

Not too shabby

Mud squeezes through the cracks in the door, and almost immediately begins taking shock damage from the electricity, even before he can finish getting through the door cracks. Mud is basically affected by elemental attacks, heat, cold, etc, that are area of effect while desolid, so lightning would fall in that category

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6 6 Body
StunMult: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5 x6 stun, 36 stun, so 36-15 def = 21 stun. Not con stunned, but that HURT!

Mud opens the door for Blaze, and Blaze, confused by the lightning strikes, fires at them in an attempt to disrupt them. The fire goes past them, over the guard's heads, and slams into the vault door above the head of the flaming guy who's got his arm stuck elbow deep in the door. The vault door is scorched, and glowing red where it hit The flame head laughs. "Hey kid, thanks for the assist."

@Aegis, yes, sorry, you can act on 3

Post 12 recoveries, for those what get them

Phase 3 coming up tonight when I have time to post more.

Phase 3

The woman narrows her eyes at Aegis. "Well now, honeychild, let me tell you this again. Pick that scrawny little b***h up and use her to beat that little w***e to death."

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 2) = 4 Crit, max damage

Aegis get's an Ego Check at -6 to break the mind control, otherwise she must do her best to follow the orders

Anyone with an ego or dex > 20 is up

Question: Does our mindlink give me any bonuses on Aegis' ECV to counter the Mind Control?

No, but you can auto hit her. However, all you can do is basically give her another roll. But there's no targetting required.
and you bypass mental defense (not that it matters in this case)

Zero Phase Soliloquy Via Mind Link To Aegis

::Remember who you are! She doesn't control your mind! You do!::

Since all I can do is give her another roll, I won't bother rolling damage, unless you'd like me to. However, consider that my action this phase.

To Mud and Pulse and Blaze.

::Someone get their telepath. NOW.::

END Tracker (Personal): 50 - 4 (Force Field) = 46

END Tracker (Reserve): 60 - 5 (Mind Control) = 55

Mud takes 16 stun = (36 - 15 ) x 75% damage redux. And recovers 16 Stun at post 12

Recover to full stun and end at Phase 12. Maintain Suppress and Force Field, add another Suppress. Layered right on the other one.
Is there any visible effect of my power affecting his? His AoE seems to be centered in my suppress as well as him being inside of it.

16 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - (4, 5, 4) = 3
Supress: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 6) + 1 = 9 Current Total: 4+9=13

Pulse expands her hand, watching Aegis warily, the hum becomes a crescendo of static pops like invisible tiny popcorn in the air between them.

::Yeah, something's broke, I think. Good news is, I can take a bullet to the chest. Bad news is, I took a bullet to the chest.::

"Hey, Old dude." Pulse wheezes out, "Your teenaged arch-nemesis is having... trouble quipping just now."

You still need to roll damage, if you get more than EGO+30, I'll give her a +1 to the ego check for every 5 points you get over that

@Pulse, you're seeing some effect on the lightning pulses, but it's a lot of active points, so it'll take awhile to make an appreciable effect. Also, your suppress happens in a bit

Blaze: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Fire Guy: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Attack, Pulse: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 2) = 10 Hit
Entangle: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 1) = 5 1 body, 2 def

The man Pulse is trying to quip with shakes his head. "You need more practice, girl." He flings a hand out and a ball of lightning streaks out to hit Pulse, and Pulse's nerves begin to short out. Her body begins to jerk as if she were having an epileptic seizure. The ball of lightning breaks up into a half-dozen smaller bits and spreads out over her body, each arcing electricity along her body to another ball. "Here's a time out for you, girl, so you can think about mouthing off to your betters."

1 body, 2 def entangle, note, you only suppressed 4 active points, so you didn't get enough yet to have any effect on it. Pulse can try to break out with a strength check, or by attacking the entangle directly (she'll take damage from the attack as well). Or you can stand there entangled and very easy for Aegis to grab on her action.

I'll stick with the suppress. She can see that her suppress is having -an- effect, even if it's only a minor one. She doesn't really know how whammied Aegis is, but she knows that Violet was able to shake a cop out, somewhat. She also doesn't know how strong this netting is, and isn't particularly built for damaging things like it. Thrashing herself against a wall just doesn't seem very useful, just now. If I still don't notice an appreciable effect, I'll mash the elevator up button with my nose if Aegis is coming this way still. Also, can mind control really just be repeatedly used against the same character until they eventually fail it? Ew.

on phone

Mud throws a mud ball at the mentalist.

to hit the hex: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 1) = 8
Effect: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10

Yes, they can use it over and over again. Vi has several times.

Can't get a detailed post up right now, should be able to have one up tonight sorry

Ego: 3d6 - 6 ⇒ (3, 1, 1) - 6 = -1

That's not how it works Aegis, it's 6 from your ego check. So, ego check is 12, so the dice roll would be 12-6-3d6, not 3d6-6. In other words, you needed a 6 or less, which (in a special dice bot miracle) you actually got with a 5

Aegis again manages somehow to break out of the mental whammy that was placed on her.

Mind Control, 10d6: 10d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 3, 2, 4, 1, 5) = 36

Rolling for effect, regardless, despite Aegis' RNG Miracle, there.

To paraphrase Lily Von Shtupp from Blazing Saddles: Oh, wook. How avewage.

"Well now, honeychild, let me tell you this again. Pick that scrawny little b***h up and use her to beat that little w***e to death."

"Yea that's the plan." Aegis growled in an annoyed defiance as she went straight for the mind controller leaping over the guards.

Leap to Hex: 16 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - 2 - (5, 2, 4) = 3 1 End
Movethrough: 16 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - 2 - (4, 2, 1) = 7
Move through + Velocity + Pushing: 4d6 + 2d6 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 6, 5) + (2, 1) + (5, 5) = 33 2 End (Str), 10 End (Push)

25/50 End For Exert Control over Real World

I assume Aegis is going solid at the end of her leap? Otherwise she goes through any targets. There's no need to target the hex, you're leaping to a visible spot, so we'll use the first attack roll for the to-hit on the target. This means you hit a 3 DCV., and transfer the other 3 dice to the location, although the 3DCV misses the mentalist

Aegis leaps forward, her body going up and through the stone and she comes down, resolidifying as she drops through the roof and her fist goes over the head of the mentalist, the densed up woman slamming into the ground behind her, shattering marble tiles and cracking the concrete underneath it.

"Well now, that is annoying." The black woman says. "Priority target dears, put this golden b***h down for Circe."

The flaming man sighs. "Right." His points his free hand toward Aegis, and lava flows from his fingers and forms into a feline

Attack, Aegis: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 3) = 12 Hit
Location: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 1) = 6 Arm
Damage: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (4, 5) - 1 = 8 8 body, 16 stun

Cat's claws are armor piercing, so Aegis only get's half her resistant defense, or 9 ED. Aegis takes 7 stun

The cat leaps out and it's claws and teeth lock onto Aegis's right arm. Where the claws and teeth hit, the metal armor glows bright red, nearly melted. Then the cat lands on the ground, it's feet leaving burning footprints in the marble as it continues to snarl and stare at Aegis, obviously gearing up for another attack.

Blaze last

"Well, gosh darn it, then," Blaze said, somewhat cynically after shooting through the "wall", "What ever am I gonna do?"

He rose into the air to get a better angle, especially after getting marching orders from Violet.

::Right, I'm taking the shot::

Moving a half move to get a better angle on black telepath girl

Attack: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (3, 3, 2) = 10

hit location: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6) = 16 legs

fire blast: 10d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 6, 1, 1, 1, 5) = 32

Blaze blasts over the head of two of the guards. His fire blast hits Circe in the leg, and then the woman is hit by a blob of mud!

The other to officers take their held actions at the end of the round, now that Mud and Blaze are visible.

Attack Blaze: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 1) = 8 Hit
Attack Mud: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 3) = 11 Miss

Location, Blaze: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 6) = 16 Leg

Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 3) = 13 13 body, 26 stun, take 8 stun after defenses

Knockback: 13 - 2d6 ⇒ 13 - (6, 5) = 2

The bullet throws Blaze off balance, and he goes spinning back into the wall! Will require a half-phase to recover on Blaze's next action, or a fly check at a -4 to recover, and Blaze is at half-DCV until his next action or until he recovers. He can abort to recover if he chooses to

Phase 4

Phase 5

If Aegis didn't solidify, then the fire guy did not produce a magma cat, and continued attacking the vault door on 3

The man with the electricity turns toward Aegis, and his hand flares...

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 4) = 9 Hit

Flash: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 6, 5) = 20 Aegis is blinded for 5 segments, or until segment 11

"That should deal with her for now." He tells Circe.

Vi Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Blaze Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Mud Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Vi Stun Mult: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 12 stun
Blaze Stun Mult: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3 20 stun
Mud Stun Mult: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2 6 stun

Blaze takes 2 stun from the lightning, everyone else manages to shrug it off

Phase 6

Circe begins to dodge Full defense

Dex 20's up

Segment 6, EGO 23

Seeing that her efforts on the previous guard had some kind of effect, Violet looks at the neighbor of the previous guard, and again says "I said drop your weapon and get out of here!"

ECV Attack Roll = 19-3d6: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (5, 6, 3) = 5

Mind Control, 10d6: 10d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 2, 4, 6, 2, 5, 3, 3, 5) = 39

END Tracker (Personal): 50 - 4 (Force Field) + 12 (Seg 12 Recovery) = 50 - 4 (Force Field) = 46 - 4 (Force Field) = 42

END Tracker (Reserve): 60 - 5 (Mind Control on Guard 4) = 55 + 6 (Seg 12 Recovery) = 60 - 5 (Mind Control on Aegis) = 55 - 5 (Mind Control on Guard 3) = 50

Edited thanks to Pulse's memory. Thank you!

Ego Check: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 3) = 7

The second guard grabs his head as well.

Phase 6, DEX 20 (for some reason I thought I was slower than this)

"Ow! Not cool! Oh well…"

As rivulets of lead melted off his plasma form, Blaze wondered about the bruises he was going to carry over when he changed back. For now though, he needed to focus on the task at hand, and try again.

Take half phase to stabilize and then shoot the telepath (Circe?) again

Attack roll: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (6, 3, 4) = 6 This could be close…

Hit location: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 1) = 8 Arm (what's with me taking an arm and a leg?)

Flame blast damage: 10d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 1, 4, 6, 2, 6, 4, 2, 6) = 41 This is assuming I hit, of course.

Perception: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 1) = 4 That would be a critical success at pinpointing Blaze with a non-targeting perception check, so high dcv

Blaze's attack hits the bank vault behind her, and the flame man grunts again. "Thanks kid." He tells Blaze.

The two guards that haven't grabbed their heads, turn, and open fire on the two guards who are holding their heads!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 3) = 12
Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 1) = 9

Both hit their marks!

Location: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 1) = 8
Locaiton: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 2) = 8

Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6) = 15
Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 1) = 8

The first guard spins in a spray of blood, collapsing with a nasty wound in his upper arm. The other jerks sideways, as the bullet hits him in the upper arm and does a clean through and through!

"Oh dear, you really shouldn't stop them from attacking, the others are under orders to kill their friends if they stop shooting at you, dear. Did I forget to mention that? Or that if you fail to free them, they're under orders to blow their own brains out? Tsk tsk tsk, and your annoying little friend over there is disrupting the neural network, so I can't countermand those orders anymore. Oh well, their blood is on your hand, Violet." The woman says with sacherine words. "I think they have children, maybe you should use your mind control to make them attack you again?" She offers.

Who's next?

Pulse, then Mud and Aegis on 6

Phase 6, Dex 18

::She's still right next to you, Aegis. Gonna taunt sparky again, follow my voice and take a swing, maybe. She's between us.:: Pulse announces mentally.

"Less corroded than... I'd thought." Pulse taunts again. "Feeling it... yet?" she asks as she drains more of the energy from the air between them, and currently, around him.

::Ignore her, Violet, she's trying to get you off your game. Maybe Mud can blind one, while you free another, and then we'll get that last one free. Anything she's made them do is out of our control.::

Target Hex: 16 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - (1, 3, 4) = 8
Suppress: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 6) + 1 = 10 Dropping the roll of 4. Now I'm up to 9 + 10 = 19 Suppression. -12 end for my turn, dropping me to 56/80 End.

still on phone

Mud throws another mud ball at sparky.

to hit the hex: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 4) = 8
Effect: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

With the mind controller and her both disabled this was her best chance to power up.

::Turning solid, if I can get a good hit I can take her out and the rest will be easy. If she gets control of me be ready to back up.::

Aegis's semisolid form becomes more and more firm until the floor under her crackles under her weight and she waits for her chance to strike.

Full Phase full density

Phase 7
Phase 8

Damage, Blaze: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Damage, Mud: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Damage, Vi: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

Multiplier, Blaze: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3 20 stun, 5 body, vs ED
Multiplier, Mud: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 8 stun, 4 body, vs ED
Multiplier, Vi: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3 16 stun, 4 body, vs ED

The man with the electrical aura tilts his head down, despite being coated in mud. "Really? You're throwing your poop at me, boy?" He shakes his head. "You may think your brain structure is unusual, boy, but it still uses electrical impulses, just like everyone elses." He then takes a step back, and an arc of energy arcs out toward Mud!

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 5) = 13

The arc of electricity slams into the wall behind Mud, and chunks of concrete are blasted free and scorch marks left on the wall.

Phase 9

The black woman looks around, and sees that Aegis is right next to her. "Honeychild, why don't you hit that vault door just as hard as you can and I'll let one of the guards go?" She points at the door of the vault.

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 2) = 10 Hit
Damage: 12d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 3, 1, 5, 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 3) = 49

EGO + 35, Aegis is not violently opposed to hitting a door, even a vault door. From the way Zoey's played her, she's not in this for justice, so she's not really caring about the bad guys losing, she just doesn't like to lose. I'll call that a requirement for EGO+15 (splitting the difference between 20 and 10) That gives the mentalist a +20 effect, so Ego Check at -4 to avoid punching the door as hard as she can.

Phase 9, Vi up if she's doing mental

How long did Mud's flash affect the mentalist? He rolled 3 body.

3 segments, as far as you know

It's like dueling banjos in here, only for Mentalists.

Violet takes nothing from the static wall.

Mindlink To Aegis: ::Hey, how about instead of hitting that door, you hit HER? She's been telling you what to do since we got here, and since when do you like anyone playing around in your head? If you punch that door, you'll just be doing what she WANTS.::

Violet is attempting to play on Aegis' already illustrated resistance to being (a) told what to do, (b) interfered with by Mentalists, and (c) made into the bad guy. Previously stated by GM that I don't need to roll to hit her, so I'm assuming I don't need to, now, unless you'd like me to.

10d6 Mind Control: 10d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 2, 3) = 41

END Tracker (Personal): 50 - 4 (Force Field) + 12 (Seg 12 Recovery) = 50 - 4 (Force Field) = 46 - 4 (Force Field) = 42 - (Force Field) = 38

END Tracker (Reserve): 60 - 5 (Mind Control on Guard 4) = 55 + 6 (Seg 12 Recovery) = 60 - 5 (Mind Control on Aegis) = 55 - 5 (Mind Control on Guard 3) = 50 - 5 (Mind Control on Aegis) = 45

Vi gives Aegis another check on her next action after her first mind controlled one (if Aegis fails her free check).

"Ow!"

Barry wanted to switch targets, but his shielding was holding…for now. He hoped he could at least avoid hitting Aegis (and possibly the vault door).

Attack roll: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (5, 2, 5) = 6 um…dunno?

I think I'm up next, and his action's results don't really affect mine, sooo... Phase 9, Dex 18!

Pulse used Struggle!: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 1) = 10 It was super effective!

Satisfied with the current amount of drain she's putting on the other sparky - Pulse takes a moment to strain against the bonds he'd put on her, and with a little luck, manages to burst free of the electrified net!

::Not sure exactly how long I can keep this up. But it looks like I've drained most of the power out of that Tesla thingy.::

-1 End for 3d6 str, -10 End Suppress, -2 for maintaining forcefield. My math was wrong on the sheet and I was showing more end than is correct (7 turn one, 12 turn 2, 13 this turn = 48/80 End)

Phase 9

Mud shrugs off the lightning, because it tickled. "You're funny, sparky. Try another shot!"

He winds up and throws another batch at the Mentalist.

to hit her hex: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 5) = 8
Effect: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6

Question 1: This damage is applied to regular ED, right?
Question 2: If this Flash affects the Mentalist for 2 segments, and she next acts in 12. Is this Flash attack pointless?