(2) - Dawn of the Metahumans

Game Master mdt

Violet, from her safe place near the stairwell, once again tries to get Aegis to wake TF up.

"Damn it, you high-functioning alcoholic! Wake up!"

Ego Attack, 19-3d6: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (3, 5, 2) = 9

Pretty sure that hits. Thanks, preview function.

Mind Control, 10d6: 10d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 6, 2, 4) = 42

Son of a monkey.

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END Tracker (Personal): 50 - 4 (Force Field) = 45 - 4 (Force Field) = 41 - 4 (Force Field) = 37 - 4 (Force Field) = 33

END Tracker (Reserve): 37 (of 60) - 5 (Mind Control On Aegis) = 32 - 0 (Held Action) = 32 - 0 (Move) = 32 - 5 = 27

STUN Tracker: 35 (Max)

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Pulse readies herself to blast Aegis if she tries to bolt for someone.

Aegis gains another will save, at a straight roll if I remember where we were, so no penalty or bonus.

Ego: 12 - 3d6 ⇒ 12 - (5, 5, 3) = -1

Aegis could have sworn she heard Violet's grating voice for a moment but as the blind wears off she returns to the fight, waiting for the enemies next move.

holding action

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....

Damn, that was close

Phase 12

The safe door seems cooler than it was before after Mud spends two actions cooling it with the fire extinguisher.

Phase 12

The metal door seems cool enough to snake, so Mud extends through the hole stopping at the point where he can see and hear inside the vault. Since he's been standing in front of the hole, they shouldn't see a change in light, so hopefully they won't know he's there if they are still there.

Stealth: 12 - 3d6 ⇒ 12 - (6, 5, 3) = -2

I need a stealth check

Blaze was still kind of at a loss. He didn't want to attack, but at the same time Aegis was a threat. What a dilemna!

::Is there a particular nickname/phrase we might know that the baddies don't? I'm grasping at straws here, but if Aegis starts to whomp on us, I'd like an alternative. What about stuff we did last week? Yesterday, even?::

Aside from that, I'm a'holdin' mah action.

Mud manages to ooze part of him through the burned hole in the wall, the sides still hot enough to make him wince, but cooled enough that he doesn't get seared. However, the combination of his distraction and the cold that came through earlier from the extinquisher means that people are watching.

As he opens an eye on the other side, something reaches a molten paw into the hole and claws at his eye!

Fortunately, it doesn't manage to do much damage. Desolid defense

Perception: 12 - 3d6 ⇒ 12 - (1, 4, 6) = 1

Before the thing attacks him, he get's a brief view of the room beyond. A small area is surrounded by bars, like in a jail, then beyond it are more doors and bars, cells filled with gold bars, or stacks of money.

However, the fire guy is watching the vault door, while the black mentalist is tapping her foot with her arms crossed, and the electric guy is just standing and staring at the wall.

Hot hot hot, well, not so much!: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 1) - 1 = 1 1 body 3 stun, nothing get's through

Mud pulls back a little into the hole and pictures the ::view of the room beyond. A small area is surrounded by bars, like in a jail, then beyond it are more doors and bars, cells filled with gold bars, or stacks of money. The fire guy is watching the vault door, while the black mentalist is tapping her foot with her arms crossed, and the electric guy is just standing and staring at the wall.::

Post 12 recovery

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3

Mud withdraws from the hole, and gives his feedback on what he saw.

As he pulls back, molten stone begins to pour out of the hole after him, drooling down the doorway. It forms a tiger of stone, semi-solid and glowing magma and then it roars and leaps at Mud.

Damage: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 6) - 1 = 6 6 body, 18 stun, half armor

18 - 15/2 = 10 /2 = 5 Stun damage. 34+16-5 = 45/64 Stun

There isn't much that Violet can do regarding the bad guys. At this point, the only way I'm going to be able to do anything against them is if MDT lets me pull a power stunt and see through Mud's eyes.

Giving it the old college try once more, Violet squints her eyes at Aegis and attempts to break through the control of the enemy mentalist.

"Okay, c'mon, stop being a raging pile of bad fashion sense and get your head together. Don't make me start reciting your meeting schedules."

ECV Attack 19-3d6: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (6, 2, 5) = 6

I hit a 6. Just barely!.

10d6 Mind Control: 10d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 3, 1) = 31

Dang it.

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END Tracker (Personal): 50 - 4 (Force Field) = 45 - 4 (Force Field) = 41 - 4 (Force Field) = 37 - 4 (Force Field) = 33 - 4 (Force Field) = 29

END Tracker (Reserve): 37 (of 60) - 5 (Mind Control On Aegis) = 32 - 0 (Held Action) = 32 - 0 (Move) = 32 - 5 = 27 - 5 = 22 (Mind Control On Aegis)

STUN Tracker: 35 (Max)

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::How close is Doc Shock to the vault door?::

Mud thinks a reply to Pulse.

Ego: 12 - 3d6 ⇒ 12 - (6, 2, 2) = 2

Finally able to break the mental illusions Aegis needs a moment to adjust to what all had happened.

"Bite me Kendall Morgan." She retorts as she rubs her temples, a rather fruitless attempt given her armor.

::This is why I said mentalists first.:: Maintain a surprising amount of resistant for her by not "yelling" in the mind link.

RETCON

Mud doesn't withdraw from the hole. He still takes the same damage as something reaches into the hole to claw at him

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 6) = 11

Something hits the hole next to where he's in, but doesn't seem to enter it correctly.

Post 12 recoveries

Phase 3

Pulse, once Aegis is free, sprints across the room and past her, ::We really need to think up a trick to fix mentalists, if we can.:: She stops on the side of the door opposite where Mud said the enemies were, so she could throw her disruptions through as soon as she was in position.

That just leaves Blaze to act.

::I don't know about that, but I think I might have an idea to ruin our bad guy's day,:: Blaze sent to folks. ::This place is FDIC insured, right? What if I were to set the money on fire?::

Now that he had said it out loud, it sounded stupid. But he consoled himself in the fact that there was no such thing as a stupid idea…unless it was the concept of Jar Jar Binks.

Hold action until some input comes in.

::I really don't think they're after money. Mud said he's staring at a wall, so I'm guessing they're hacking something. Probably stealing how to print money. You'd think Federal Reserves would have like... dedicated Metas for locking down other Metas. Not that I'd want to have a random meta suddenly appear now and try to figure out who the bad guys are.::

Is Mud staying in the hole on Phase 3?

Mud is there until he gets an action. I was waiting for Vi and Aegis to act, because Mud is slow. Is it Mud's action?

We're not in actual combat, so I'm basically doing 'PCs' then 'NPCs' rather than adhering to strict dex order. If you want to wait for them to do something you can, it's just that nobody is posting so I can't do anything either. So far, on Phase 3, only Blaze has done anything (wait). Nobody else has done anything other than hold mental conversations.

Alright, I'll take that as me being wrong about the turns and actions. Sorry for screwing everyone up. If this wouldn't work because Mud is in the hole, wait until Mud does something.

Target Hex through Hole: 17 - 3d6 ⇒ 17 - (4, 3, 5) = 5
Suppress: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 6) + 1 = 10

Pulse uses the information Mud had passed her mentally to decide which side of the hole to be on to best throw her suppress through. If the bad guy was talking to some machines, like she suspected, disabling that would be quite useful.

I’m snowed in at work, so am on my phone.

Mud will back out of the hole, solidify, and create a wall from the floor to cover the hole. He’s just trying to block line of sight and hearing, so they can get ready for their exit.

"Yea I'm fine thanks." She says dryly to herself as Pulse runs past her.

::Let's not do possibly millions of dollars of damage just so the bad guys can't have it. They can teleport but clearly need at least some kind of line of sight, we need to get ready for round two. Without any reliable way to get everyone inside quickly we don't have many options except waiting around.::

Aegis shifts her weight slightly from side to side as she thinks, maybe there was a way to open the door from inside the wall, or some other trigger she could use to get the team in?

Security systems: 13 - 3d6 ⇒ 13 - (2, 5, 1) = 5

As Mud pulls out, right behind him flows molten stone, burning and flowing and forming a feline shape! His attempt to block the hole is successful, but the feline is already through before he can actually make it!

Claw: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3 3 body, 9 stun, armor piercing

Looking at the vault door, Aegis can tell that it's been permanently sealed by the guy burning through it! It'll require a complete replacement.

Mud takes 9 -(15/2) = 1 *.75 = 1 stun damage 45-1=44/64

"Huh…" Blaze said so artfully (mostly to himself). "Well, there's no ambiguity about this, at least."

As if to demonstrate, he unleashed a torrent of hot flame at the beastie…

He'll either…somehow hurt this thing mad of rock, or he'd show folks how the monster worked.

Blaze employs his 12d6 flame blast

OCV 7 Attack: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (1, 3, 2) = 12

I uh…think he hits.

damage: 12d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 4) = 44

Since I don't know if a stone creature has hit locations or not, I'll skip that roll for now

Blaze's fire washes over the cat, without apparently doing any damage to it.

"Um…oops?"

Well, it *is* made of Lava... :P

Violet has of course immediately re-established the mind link to Aegis.

::I'm getting supremely tired of every bad guy we face being better equipped and having better plans than our team. We need to come up with something better than 'just throw our powers at them.'::

GM applauds the concept of the PC's using tactics in the future, rather than 'everyone do random things'!!!! It makes it much harder on the GM to not feel like he's steamrolling the PCs if they use some tactics!

::I'll try to do better.:: is the only response from Pulse, who's clearly concentrating on trying to disrupt the bad guys.

GM applauds the concept of the PC's using tactics in the future, rather than 'everyone do random things'!!!! It makes it much harder on the GM to not feel like he's steamrolling the PCs if they use some tactics!

I personally, as a player, think that for a group such as ours, we're doing okay - we STILL don't know the extent of metahuman saturation in the world, nor do we know all of the "Who's" and "Where's". We've gone from "it's just us and a few others" to "there's a worldwide network of good and bad metas out there, and we are way over our heads all of a sudden," and that's great. In character, Violet's just ticked that everyone knows about us, and we can't seem to find a damned thing out about any of them until we go in - somewhere in her head, she's convinced that we can find a way to do that, ourselves. If that means getting plans and tactics out in front, then so be it.

Tactics like trying to focus the mentalist like Aegis said when the fight started?

Violet, or someone else, needs "detect mind control" or something, so when we DO go after the mentalists first, we can figure out if they've got the guards under some kind of geas or other so we don't end up with civilian casualties. I'll noodle around and see what that might cost.

Pulse moves up to the door, stepping around the lava cat, and looks through carefully and fires off her power into the other room.

When she does so, a face appears at the other end, a face that burns with flames.

Attack: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 2) = 8

The tube fills with something that oozes out on her side and another lava cat appears, and swipes at Pulse!

Location: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 1) = 7 Hand
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7 7 body, 7 stun, half armor

Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6

Assuming PD and Heat Damage. Makes 10 body, 10 stun pre-armor, with 10 RpD and 10 pD. So no damage (at most).

When the cat swipes at her, Pulse grimaces, and tries to slip away but the claws rake across her forcefield, leaving it red-hot, but the attack doesn't seem to reach her.

Oh, forgot this part

Damage, MUD: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9 body, 27 stun, half armor

Location, Pulse: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 5) = 9 Shoulder

Damage, Pulse: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 5) = 11 body, 33 stun, half armor

The two lava cats attack again, one clawing mud across the stomach, the other leaping into the air and sinking sizzling hot fangs into Pulse's shoulder!

16 body = 6 body gets through. 49 stun = 39 stun gets through. Pulse is con stunned, her effects (suppress and forcefield) end, she is heavily wounded at 4/15 body. She is at 11/50 stun and cannot move.

This time the claws rake into her shoulder and she isn't dealt a glancing blow. The claws bite deep as they dig sizzling furrows first through her force field and then through her person. She cries out, stumbling backwards and losing concentration on whatever she was doing.

EDIT: Nevermind, missed the disads section on sheet

She takes 50% extra damage from heat attacks, both stun and body. Were those multipliers already in place or are they not heat attacks?

Violet shouts something unintelligible and tries to fry whatever brains are in those... things...

ECV to hit, 19-3d6: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (5, 5, 6) = 3

That's almost a near total failure on my part, but I still hit an ECV of 3. If that doesn't work, let me know. If it does, I'll roll EGO Attack damage.

Violet doesn't feel any thing at all from the creatures

Mud takes 9 body, 27 stun, half armor: 9 -(15/2) = 1 *.75 = 1 body damage & 27 stun -(15/2) = 19 *.75 = 15 stun, 44-15=19/64

Mud grits his teeth and screams a little bit with the lava cat claws him. He tries backhand the cat.

punch: 5 - 3d6 ⇒ 5 - (2, 1, 6) = -4
if hit, damage: 10d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 3, 3, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3) = 31
knockback: 10 - 2d6 ⇒ 10 - (1, 4) = 5