Well I'm BBQing ribs and having company over if I can get away I'll post up init and the initial scene.
@Techno, For the street-level feel it might be better to limit the points in power than the number of powers. After all, somebody with lots of small utility powers makes a lot of sense at a street level.
Sorry guys had a busy day yesterday and my computer froze and ate my beginning post and init. I'm hoping by this afternoon to get something up.
Your computer froze because you still had rib sauce on your hands as you were posting! Admit it! :D
Naw, he just went into a meat coma. And I'd be disappointed if he didn't. Good barbecue is meant to be slow cooked and then slow-digested.
I gotta bow out of the street game. It sounds like fun, but I've got a lot of games going now as it is. Running 5 playing in 5
Can we get a description of what we see as we arrive? (or am I just being impatient and you are writing this as I type?)
There are 8 Air Calvary units flying around one of the hangers in a gun fight with some AEGIS agents.
There are 2 squads of 10 agents in full fire fights with AEGIS Agents.
While there are 6 mauler agents hitting multiple targets with their heavy weapons.
They all seem to be working towards the same Hanger.
Hey Watcher, are the Air Cavalry like the old school GI Joe Cobra Copters? One man mini helicopters? Or some sort of jet pack thingy? Just curious ... it may affect Invictus' action >.> ...
Gee, do I feel stupid.
Not as stupid as Broadway should feel after you pelted him with water for half of your scene together! :P
Air Calvary are jet pack viper agents.
The maulers are heavy weapons users they have backpack generators with Auto Cannons and they seem to have some type of displacement field around them.
Heading out to take my little guy to tutoring, back later this eve and I will have Invictus' combat actions up! Lets wipe these VIPER goons out!
More traditional ones but I'm going make that vehicle that's for sure.
Stop giving the GM ideas!!!
Oh and TP I think your action should be incredibly entertaining.
Just wait til I put Machine Control to some REAL use...
TP is a kid in a candy shop right now, it seems.
LOL! Golem and I posted at the same time, I can totally see Invictus dropping down from orbit as Golem materializes. High five bro, I think we just f@$%ed these guys up! Hardcore.
I just hope I didn't catch you or you me in the crossfire heh.
Remember you are fighting Minions so you can take 10 on your attacks.
I was using his machine link to cause the jetpacks to hit full speed.
I included his communication ability because it affects the range at which he could communicate via machine link (datalink + Machine Control)
Doh! Totally gapped that they were minions! As Golem & I posted at the same time, can I spend a HP to edit scene, and do my maneuver on the 10 normal agents? 2 Bruises, Stunned & Fatigued for one Mauler hardly seems worth it >.<
Also, could you please post the DC's we're rolling against with our Toughness check so we have a clue as to which attackers are the larger threat.
Thanks! :)
Yeah you can totally edit the scene
The air Calvary were using the rank 8 auto blasters out of Agents of Freedom some it was 8 plus 3 from power Attack so DC 26
Broadway I think it was changed to reactive healing called absorbsion cause you have a plus 13 toughness save, and this was way after you showed up and I'm sure blasted some people.
Absorption is a reactive power that absorbs energy and changes it to healing.
You can absorb a particular type of damage and use its energy to improve
a trait or heal yourself.
Choose physical or energy damage. Subtract your Absorption rank from the damage bonus of the affected attack. If the remaining bonus is +0 or greater, make a normal Toughness save against the remaining damage bonus, otherwise you ignore the attack’s damage completely.
After absorbing damage, as a reaction, you can immediately use Boost (see
page 77) on a particular trait or Healing (see page 87) on yourself, at a rank equal to your Absorption rank or the absorbed attack’s damage bonus, whichever is less.
I chose to use it as Healing, rather than Boost.
The way you described the scene was that the agents fired at Broadway, who hadn't taken an action, which would mean that as a reaction he could put up absorbtion. He wouldn't be able to attack after that. If they're energy blasters, he'd be able to absorb it.
It said that after you did an action because of the iniative I was just trying to keep things moving.
I am on my phone not my lap top do I don't have hero labs open, but I swear that your power is really healing just named something else because absorbtion would send you over the power levels on saves. It was a trick waveform did on your character to make it do a very similar thing. I could be wrong
Yes, I switched it. Normally absorption is toughness mixed with reactive healing. Having your defenses in a multipower is bad news. To meet PL you have to have lower defense when you aren't using it.
Making it healing with reactive and the limitation that it's based on the level of the energy attack gives you the healing effect of absorption when you want it while leaving your toughness alone when you don't.
Weird, it isn't worded as such it is worded that Absorption 4 would reduce incoming energy damage from rank 8 to rank 4, then you'd make your resistance roll. Yet when I plug it into herolab it comes up in error.
Very poorly worded.
Same difference most of the time. :)
Damn, those Air Cavalry units must be shielded against interference!
Sine they are minions that means that the ones that failed their saves take the worst possible result. Techno Priest should fly his three into another three! BOOM!
Oh S%&~!
...He is capable of brief Centurion level boosts to his already incredible strength via minute quantities of a special chemical produced by an artificial gland implanted within him ...
Broadway get ready to Power Stunt a sonic pacify effect that's resisted by Will, 'Music hath charms that sooth the savage breast.' Otherwise we're getting our asses handed to us!
Don't worry I got this my ass is iron!
The jet packs did what he wanted with extreme success they left at a very high rate they are over a mile away so mostly gone from this combat.
Watcher, it is getting close to coming back to my initiative. Before I write up my post, I need to know what I see and how easy it is to get into the hangar. If I can get into the hangar and the helicopter appears to be their target, my plan is to power stunt to shrink the helicopter and myself into a size they can't find.
Another busy day. It's free Rpg day so I'm heading off to some of my local game stores I'll be back to post
The squad of viper agents are just going to open fire on a few of you so if you want to plan accordingly.
Quark: The chopper is in the hanger all the techs seem to be running for some stairs going down. There are a few other vehicles in the hanger the chopper is somewhat disassembled already.
So.. i gotta bow out.
I have way too many games on my plate right now. And, I like Ares and this game, but I gotta make some cuts. So...
Happy gaming to all!
Sorry to hear you go.
Awww man! I'll miss Ares, you certainly madea memorable character! I totally understand your reasoning though and wish you the best and happy gaming!
Dang I was hoping to develop that intriguing relationship.
I am sorry to see you go. Hopefully the other games are as intriguing or potential filled as this one.
I was enjoying him too; the whole family man/god of warfare and death thing was a really interesting dynamic.
I guess the result of that long talk was that his wife made him quit?
Yeah that's what im saying they left town and changed their identities like the place is abandoned
Hopefully leaving enough signals that this was voluntary and intentional, so the party doesn't go on a wild goose-chase trying to figure out who might have kidnapped him.
Yeah with this party he better leave a note that says as much LOL
Sad to hear you go Ares, but I understand how that is. Was looking forward to the awkward story arc where Phobos goes through puberty, sending half of Freedom into a nightmare-induced frenzy.
I don't see him in the Round 2 Initiative list, because if he's still waking up I may let the Stun stand rather than using a HP to recover out of it. Waveform, Broadway, Quark & Golem should be able to mop up the agents this round and let us concentrate fire on Ripper for Round 3.
Sorry for the delay. I've been trying all day to figure out how to do what I wanted to do and I think I can't. I was planning power stunt to shrink the copter and hide it from Viper, but I don't think I can do that with affects others and as an attack it is capped at 9 ranks which isn't enough to get it small enough. Any rules magic I am missing?
Other people feel free to post before me, I can delay until I figure something else out.
I was originally planning on disassembling the chopper all together, leaving it a heap of parts, and once the scenario was over, reassemble it. Maybe try to search for a black box and shrink that?
Ok, maybe I will just scan it and see what looks important. It isn't clear to me in the rules what I can shrink with. I mean, with 20 ranks I can shrink with quite a lot of gear.
Happy Father's day to all you pops out there
Thanks! My boy got me an Xbox One, mainly so the 360 could move down to the rec room I am sure! Heh. Despite playing Arkham Knight, I'll try not to change my submission for Tales of the Watcher-verse again! LOL!
And there were ribs, wings, corn on the cob, apple pie ... and some perfected Old Fashioned's! Jim Beam's ok, but I still prefer my Jack's. Heh.
I hear that you guys have an opening for a God of War?
REAL FUNNY.
Invictus, I swear! If you're feeling alt-y, how about cranking out a villain or two? I've got three down, but we could always use more. That goes for anyone else too, even if you're not participating in Freedom City Knights. If you're the type to build characters for fun, feel free to make a street-level villain, no higher than PL 11, and I may or may not use it over on the "Tales From The Watcherverse" game "Freedom City Knights".
Arkham Knights seems fun. I'll have to borrow it once my brother gets it.