(2) - Dawn of the Metahumans

Game Master mdt

He was actually 10" up, distance 10x4 = 11. Goo can stil hit him though by pushing his stretching. Doing so costs an extra 5 endurance (1 endurance for every active point of stretching you have to push, in this case, 5 pts). However, to do so, Goo : 7" knockback

KB Reduce: 1d6 ⇒ 2

KB Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 2, 4, 4) = 17

Goo feels like he got a good solid hit on something, but he doesn't feel like the hit was on Ace, so much as the air around Ace. The mentalist slides back through the air and bounces against the wall lightly.

Shadowcat holds.

Aegis moves over to Transducer, and drives a fist down, but the woman's body jerks at just the right moment, and Aegis's fist slams into the heavy steel floor, buckling a few metal plates and seriouly denting the lead plate under it.

Missed by 1, Transducer had a 4 DCV

TURN 1 : SEGMENT 5

Ace holds an action.

Whippoorwill up

"Dang it, Rocket! This is Vi! That is Transducer!" She yells, arms flailing angrily. "Or... is this Transducer and that Vi... " She says, before looking to Ace. "Dang it, Ace!"

Briana's eyes widen as Goo stretches and knocks Ace back against the wall. Her mind races as she sees him pause. 'Cat hasn't shown herself yet, either. What are you planning?

Tactics: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 1) = 8

"Aegis! Hurt's coming your way!" Whippoorwill cries out as she climbs further into the air. She spins once with a snap of her wings that dislodges another pinfeather that streaks to the ground. When it hits, another smoke screen erupts between the opponents on the far wall and Aegis.

"Take Transducer out! Rocket's been compromised!" she barks the orders as she glares at Ace, preparing for the worst.

Climb another 5", move 2".
Quill: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 5) = 13

Transducer suddenly vanishes from in front of Aegis, reappearing 5" above the brick! There's a brief flash of light between the floor and where she reappears, hovering in air. She holds a half-phase action.

Kestrel grins, and pulls a heavy looking arrow off of her quiver, and fires it straight at Whippoorwill!

18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (4, 3, 5) = 6

The arrow bounces off Whippoorwill's forehead, not doing much more than a ping pall ball would... but then she has just enough time to see Kestrel stick her tongue out before the world goes white and someone shoves her into the Bells of Saint Marks before hitting them with an anti-tank round.

Flash, Hearing and Sight: 1d6 + 1d3 ⇒ (3) + (1) = 4 Flashed one segment

The others see Whippoorwill engulfed in a flash of light and smoke and the silo reverberates with the concussion as the flash-bang arrow tip detonates.

Teamwork, Ace: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 6) = 17
Teamwork, Transducer: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 1) = 8
Teamwork, Shadowcat: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6) = 16

Shadowcat walks out of the smoke, and grabs a section of the stairwell....

Grab: 16 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - (2, 4, 2) = 8
Hoist: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 2) = 9
Str: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 3) = 9

The metal stairwell that Shadowcat had grabbed tears free, and she flings it straight at the blinded Whippoorwill!

16 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 16 - 2 - (5, 5, 1) = 3 Hit

Transducer watches the stairway whip toward Whippoorwill, and then a thick heavy red beam spears out of her eyes at Whippoorwill! The beam and the stairwell impact simultaneously, hitting her front and back!

17 - 3d6 ⇒ 17 - (3, 3, 5) = 6
Location: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 6) = 11

Infrared Laser: 12d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 6, 5, 3, 2, 5, 3, 2, 2, 4, 3) = 44 13 body, no body through

Stairwell: 10d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 3, 3, 2, 4, 1, 6, 1, 6) = 32 8 Body
KB Reduce, Stairwell: 1d6 ⇒ 3 6 Inches

Ace, grimacing as he misses the timing, changes targets, and looks at Aegis.

Ego: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (5, 4, 4) = 5
Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 2, 4, 5) = 16 Lucky brick!

Whippoorwill has been hit by a coordinated attack. Ace failed to coordinate, as did Shadowcat. However, Transducer succeeded, and had the option of coordinating with either Ace or Shadowcat. She chose to coordinate with the brick who was throwing a 4 hex wide area effect attack at the blinded flier.

Whippoorwill takes 29 stun from the laser, and and 17 stun from the stairwell. The two stuns are combined and compared to her con for purposes of stunning her. Not that that is needed, she's handily stunned by the IR laser. She flies up and back 2", leaving her at a height of 12 inches when she is knocked unconscious. She immediately begins falling, hurtling toward the ground! She falls 10" this segment, and will fall another 2" next segment before hitting the ground with a final velocity of 12" per segment, doing 12D6 of damage.

Aegis is hit by a mental blast from Ace, although he flubs his roll big time and barely does any damage at all, just giving her a light headache.

The stairwell crashes into the wall, and begins to crash to the ground, landing next segment!

TURN 1 : Segment 6

ROCKET UP! Rocket get's another save, at -5. Then he won't get another until post 12

Rocket see's Violet launch herself into the air! Rocket didn't know she could fly! But she releases a violet light and hits Whippoorwill! Now poor Violet's been mind controlled by that villainous Ace! He's also obviously got Aegis as well, because she almost hit Violet!

But at least Transducer is still on the ground, and within range of a Rocket punch!

Do I also see Cat throw something at "Ace"? And earlier, do I hear "Take Transducer out! Rocket's been compromised!"? And if so, coming from "Whip" or "Ace"?...I'm wondering if any of that causes dissonance that gives me a bonus to my role?[

You saw Shadowcat throw something at Ace, and Violet shoot Ace, I forgot those two got reversed. So you obviously think Violet mind controlled Shadowcat! And Ace shouted about 'take out Violet! Shadowcat's been compromised!'. Basically, your mind is twisting whatever is said to make sense of what you're 'seeing'

It doesn't matter which of them is compromised for this, really... hopefully. As Whip begins to dive towards the ground after being hit by a couple tons of bricks (and metal... and other things.), Hotaru calls out. "Rocket! Warzone Evac!" in the hopes he'll understand to get the 'civilian' to safety. In this case, the Civilian being the person unconscious and falling. She doubts it will... but if it were her, she'd try to keep someone from being grievously injured regardless of team. Which she may well be doing.

12 - 5 - 3d6 ⇒ 12 - 5 - (6, 2, 6) = -7 Wow these illusions are really really believable.

Rocket turns his head to Hotaru, "You mean catch Ace? I don't want him to get seriously hurt but I guess Shimmer can catch him--we've still got to take down Transducer--and I guess Shadowcat unless...

"And Aegis, what're you doing attacking Vi!! Shake yourself out of it! Hopefully Ace being down will help with that."

With that Rocket loops back around to finish off "Transducer". Since she managed to evade a full-on ram a moment ago, Rocket opts to try a running clothesline, seeing if he can knock "Transducer" back into the wall...and unconsciousness.

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Move-by: 11 + 10 - 2 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 10 - 2 - (5, 5, 1) = 8
hit location: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 5) + 1 = 8 arm (1/2 body, 1/2 stun, included below)
STR+HTH+VEL/5: 4d6 + 1d6 + 5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 5, 3) + (6) + (4, 4, 6, 2, 6) = 43 (6 body, 21 stun)
KB (doubling STR+HTH): 9 - 2d6 ⇒ 9 - (5, 5) = -1 mdt, I'm not confident I calculated the interaction of double knockback (on the first 5d6) with the 1/2 body from an arm shot. Please confirm.

Half move (1 END) Moveby (2 END). VEL=24”.
END 42/56
BODY 15/15
STUN 38/38
OCV 10-2=8
DCV 10-2=8

Violet, now that she's back to full DCV (whopping 6 that it is), aborts to Force Field and takes 0 STUN).

Violet: 13/13 BODY, 17/31 STUN, 49/49 END (Reserve 60/60) DCV 6

"Damn it, Rocket!" she shouts as he swoops past her. "I'm on your side!"

To the team: "Rocket's compromised! Ace has him chasing shadows!"

Edit: I did not take 1 STUN, I forgot his attack is normal damage - against which I have 24pd. Violet takes no STUN.

KB isn't affected by the body multiplier. The half-stun is AFTER defenses, not before. Violet takes 19/2 = 10 stun, and is at 7/31 stun.KB would have been 12 - 10 = 2. Violet, breakfall roll at -1 to stay on your feet after being knocked back.

Ahh, yeah, I thought those numbers looked a little hinky, my mistake for not catching that when I reviewed Rocket's numbers.

Current Numbers: Violet: 13/13 BODY, 7/31 STUN (OW!), 49/49 END (Reserve 60/60) DCV 6

Breakfall 13- -1 = 12-: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 6) = 15

Violet is tipped tush over teakettle, but still shouts out to the rest of the team, as previously determined. Damn it, Rocket, Compromised, yadda. :)

Turn 1 : Segment 6

Kestrel pulls an arrow off her back, and attaches a line draped off it to her belt. Then she fires the arrow up into the distant ceiling beams, where it clacks. Then she flips over the railing and swings through the smoke, arcing out through the chamber to land lightly on the wall opposite, catching a toe on one of the heavy frames the steel plates are bolted into.

PULSE IS UP

Attack: 11 + 6 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 6 - (5, 2, 4) = 6 Miss!
NND Stun v Rocket: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + 1 = 9
Flash v Rocket: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 5) = 8 2 seconds of blind
Maintain Shield! 9 less endurance again! Now at 82/100. Also, Dice seem to hate Rocket more than Transducer. A lot more.

Hotaru forms another ball of energy, forming it from arcs of electricity dancing between five fingers, and then fills in like a waterballoon, rapidly expanding. It strobes faintly pink for a moment, but doesn't seem to be able to hold any specific color. It continues to pulse and dance in time... she looks towards Transducer, and then flings the ball of energy sidelong towards Rocket, all two-ish feet away. Hopefully he wouldn't slam into anything during his time out. They couldn't keep dealing with him trying to flatten Violet. 'Please be him that's compromised...'

And then the energy arcs away from him into the metal-lined room.

Whippoorwill crashes into the ground!

Fall: 12d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 4, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4) = 31

She's even more unconscious!

Shimmer shimmers, and reappears next to Whippoorwill.

She vanishes, along with Whippoorwill, on Segment 7.

TURN 1 : SEGMENT 8

ROCKET UP

I'm going to write this assuming I can tell that Kestrel is moving again. If that's not true, ignore the Kestrel part.

Rocket smiles as he knocks Transducer down, and swings back around hollering, "I'll finish Transducer!"

As he barrels by "Transducer"--hitting her shoulder with his high speed elbow--he notices that Kestrel is somehow moving again. "Ahhh, crud. Well, I took her out once; I should be able to do it again!" ...and with that he runs up the wall beside her, only managing to clip her arm...but doing so with sufficient velocity as to smash the archer thoroughly into the wall as well.

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[dice=Move-by ("Transducer" aka Violet)]11+10-4-3d6[/dice]
Move-by (Kestrel): 11 + 10 - 4 - 3d6 ⇒ 11 + 10 - 4 - (3, 3, 5) = 6

"Transducer"
hit location: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3) + 1 = 7 shoulder
STR+HTH+VEL/5: 4d6 + 1d6 + 5d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 5, 2) + (4) + (5, 1, 5, 2, 6) = 34 (11 body, 40 stun)
KB (doubling STR+HTH): 15 - 2d6 ⇒ 15 - (5, 4) = 6
KB damage: 9d9 ⇒ (2, 1, 7, 2, 3, 7, 6, 3, 3) = 34 (11 body, 45 stun)

Kestrel
hit location: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 1) + 1 = 8 arm...so half the values post DEF below
STR+HTH+VEL/5: 4d6 + 1d6 + 5d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 2, 3) + (1) + (4, 6, 3, 3, 6) = 38 (13 body, 42 stun)
KB (doubling STR+HTH): 18 - 2d6 ⇒ 18 - (6, 6) = 6
KB damage: 13d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 5, 2, 4, 2, 6, 5) = 41 (13 body, 46 stun)

Full move (2 END) Moveby (2 END). VEL=24”.
END 38/56
BODY 15/15
STUN 38/38
DCV 10-2=8

Violet is hit again as Rocket races past her, reaching out an arm to slam her against the wall again.

Knockback Damage vs Violet, but with D6's instead of D9's: 9d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 6, 4, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2) = 32

Violet takes 16 Stun from the hit, and 8 stun from the knockback into the wall, Violet is Stunned, and her defenses drop at the end of the turn

He realizes that somehow Kestrel has gotten up and is now moving around and zooms past her, but misses her badly.

Ace flies up and forward, and focuses on Pulse!

Illusion: 19 - 3d6 ⇒ 19 - (1, 1, 6) = 11
Illusion: 10d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 4, 1, 6, 4, 2, 2, 2) = 26

Briefly, Pulse sees a Shimmer appear in front of her, and then the silo shimmers and vanishes, and Shimmer giggles as she leaves Pulse standing on a desert island about 60 ft across with a single palm tree on it...

...and then the island begins to break apart, and the silo returns to normal around her.

GOO UP

Goo is almost overwhelmed by everything going on, it is almost too much for him to keep track of. He watches Shadowcat throw a piece of the building across the room, Kestrel swing through the air, and Rocket running around like a blur. In front of him he sees Shadow Cat standing there and stretches toward her striking out with his elongated fist.

Punch: 7 + 11 - 3d6 ⇒ 7 + 11 - (2, 5, 2) = 9
Damage: 6d6 + 3d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 3, 3, 1, 6) + (1, 3, 3) = 30 3d6 velocity damage from stretching 8 Body
Hit Location: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 1) + 1 = 3Head
Knockback: 8 - 2d6 ⇒ 8 - (6, 3) = -1

Goo stretches out and slams his fist into Shadowcat, slamming her head back on her shoulders. She pulls a hand up to her jaw and works it back and forth. "Good one Goo." She comments.

Transducer flies down to 3" off the floor, and half-way between Aegis and Pulse.

She then clenches all her muscles, and then a a pulse of energy crackles out of her!

Aegis: 6d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 2, 1, 5, 6) = 22
Pulse: 0d6 ⇒ (-) = 0
Violet: 6d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 6) = 19

The wave of energy washes over Pulse, as making her forcefield crackle with energy, but nothing happens.

Aegis can try to dive for cover, but she'll lose her action to do so, otherwise, she's Stunned by 2 pts, Violet takes more damage (Is she still conscious?)

Shadowcat Holds an Action.

Aegis either is stunned or dives for cover

Kestrel swings on, and fires back at Rocket!

Attack: 18 - 3d6 ⇒ 18 - (3, 3, 3) = 9

FLash: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8 2 Segments

Does Rocket want to abort to dive for cover? It would leave him at 1/2 DCV

Will do, it beats being blind while running

Dex check at -1, and pick a hex to jump into

Dive For Cover: 3d6 + 3 ⇒ (5, 1, 3) + 3 = 12

How far was Aegis leaping? The original thing she did covered a good sized area...

I'm not entirely sure where shed need to jump so whatever the min distance she would have to **edit** Moved aegis to her original position

Aegis jumps 3" Determined in PM and unfortunately still lands short, the energy just reaching her and still stunning her.

Violet takes more damage (Is she still conscious?)

Nope. She was knocked to -17 by Rocket's Move-By, and is now at -36 from the AOE. Put in a Shimmer-Uber call, I need a pick-up.

Current Numbers: Violet: 13/13 BODY, -36/31 STUN (Dreamtime!), 49/49 END (Reserve 60/60) DCV 6

Whose turn is it?

We're pausing, I'm going to 'end' the fight when everyone is done with discussion.

A horn sounds, as Whippoorwill slams into the ground. "Ok, that's enough. You need to learn to work together as a team. And Cat, I know you tried to hit me with the stairwell."

Cat grins, and teleports over next to Shimmer and Whippoorwill and the two start slapping her back and shaking her to wake her back up again.

Kestrel moves to Violet and begins to wake her up as well.

Ace looks at Rocket, and chuckles. "Hey, quit attacking Violet..." He uses telepathy to break Rocket out of his mental illusions

Sanction stretches. "Ok, I'm good with the idea you've all got control of your abilities. Take a week, think, here or at home, about what you want to do. If you want to go home and never use your powers, that's fine. We just don't want you using them by accident." She glances at Whippoorwill, to indicate that option is not one for her.

"Ok, everyone looks alive, and only minor burns to one unimportant team member." Sanction continues, and Ace looks at his armor, which is still smoking slightly. There's several chuckles all around. "Nothing that won't come out in the wash. For those that decide they want to stay, you'll get a post fight breakdown of where you did good, and where you didn't. Shimmer and I have another fight to oversee. If you'll excuse us..." Shimmer gives everyone a wave and a pixie like grin, and then vanishes with Sanction.

Ace shakes his head. "You'll get used to that, she rarely sticks around. More words than I heard her say in six months. Now, everyone shower up, eat, relax."

Goo walks away a little dejected with his performance today. I need to learn how to fight, I can’t go home, he thinks as he looks down at his fists. However he takes a moment to say to his teammates, “Good joB.”

Hotaru shrugs, "Then I should consider myself lucky. We got to spend a meal together. Guess that was mostly cause I needed someone to be my talker... and she wanted a break." She didn't even feel tired after that. "You doing okay, Ace?" Hotaru asks, looking at the spots he got sizzled, as she moves towards the others, where they're gathering. She lets her forcefield drop.

Ace laughs. "I meant Sanction. Shimmer will talk your ear off, if she has some free time. She doesn't sleep, so she get's bored easily." He looks down at his jacket. "Had worse, be fine in a day or two. Can't say the same for the jacket."

Hotaru grins, sheepishly, "Oh, right. I... didn't really notice Sanction. She's just sort of... there." she shrugs. "Bossy, but..." she shrugs again, then notices Goo trudging off. Trudging was a really good word for a man made of something exceedingly mudlike. "One sec, sorry." She says, slipping off towards him, still surprised she'd done so... not terribly. "Hey, Goo! Wait!" she calls, accelerating into a jog to catch up.

"What why are we ending? There's still five..." She glances at Rocket."Four and a half people ready to fight."

Goo stops and turns when pulse calls him, “What’s up PulSE.”

Shadowcat shakes her head. "The point of the fight wasn't to win or lose, it was to give you a good taste of what life is like if you decide to take on the ones abusing their powers. And to make sure you could control your abilities. Sanction saw enough to give her a warm and fuzzy on both counts."

"Where're you going?" she says, slowing down as she gets closer. "We should be celebrating! Or at least practicing." she says, still fairly chipper. She'd gone into that expecting to be put on the ground completely from the start.

"I mean, Sanction just totally called you off from wrecking Ace, Aegis had Transducer on the ropes, and I think I was... okay, Rocket was totally out of it. I should have stuck to the plan, I guess." she looks back to Transducer. "Sorry, by the way! I... didn't know that was going to hurt enough to make you scream.."

"So in other words we didn't stand a chance." Aegis sighed in defeat as she powered down her golden armor."I need a drink."