Round 5 Init 11
One of the Phalanx dupes launched himself through the air and connected with a vicious right cross to the left side of Markus' face. The blow rocked him back, his body impacted with the wall, plaster and marble splintered and cracked.
His vision darkened briefly, he heard screams from somewhere above him, he saw a shattered city, Omega drones flying through the air, the smell of burnt and charred bodies filled his nose. He knew they weren't his memories, but he knew what he was trying to tell him, Keep fighting, keep standing, there are people RELYING on you, and he wouldn't fail them, not again. NOT TODAY.
His voice echoed throughout the Courtroom as he pushed himself to standing from the crater his impact had made in the wall, "NOT TODAY!"
OOC: Gah! Early morning posting! Forgot to mention that all the above is just fluff for him spending his whole round stunned. Carry on! Though as a free action at the beginning of his next round he will use his X-Ray vision to see what's going on above us and hopefully be able to get rid of whatever deathtrap is waiting a few floors up to delay us from pursuit!
Broadway moves up the side of the building to see if he can find the villainous getaway deathtrap.
Broadway:
Broadway let's out an odd hum, and becomes insubstantial, ghosting through the wall and then moving up the side of the building to see if he can find the villainous getaway deathtrap.
@ Golem: After you pry open the Elevator you notice 3 ziplines from the floor above and the elevator on the top floor as you look down the ziplines go all the way to the basement.
@ Broadway: As you go up into the next floor up you seem all the rooms are empty until you find one large room that seems where they are all at along with some problems.
Round 5 Init 11.
The hostages and civilians were mostly gone. Her head was still messed up from the hit. Some of the heroes were going to deal with the deathtrap and those of us down here were getting pounded. She makes a sweep through the room to catch the remaining heroes and then speeds up the stairs to the next level. If the duplicators wanted to finish us off, they'd at least have to follow.
Round 5 Init 14.
"Looks like we have a problem down the elevator shaft, I better go see that we don't have anymore problems."
Golem looks down and decides, eh, and leaps down to the bottom of the shaft.
Listen and see if I can hear anything going on up or down.
Upstairs seems calm. (almost to calm)
Every level seems to be full of panic you look down to the basement and see some movement down there but you are not sure what or who it is.
Round 3? Init 19.
Ares stands, cloak billowing out behind him and holds out his hand. A huge spear launches through the air and he snatches it with a quick flick of his wrist. He uses the moment to throw the shaft at the phalanx he opposes.
"Fool! You know not whom you face, mortal! For, I am Ares, GOD OF WAR!"
[ooc[Sorry, still trying to get into the swing of things here on the island...EDIT [/ooc]
Round 5 Init 19.
Ares stands, cloak billowing out behind him and holds out his hand. A huge sword thrusts up from the ground, which Ares grips in two hands above his head. He launches himself at the phalanx, slicing down with his sword in a fierce overhand chop.
"Fool! You know not whom you face, mortal! For, I am Ares, GOD OF WAR!"
Round 5 Round Up
The Phalanxes the three in the lobby were stunned, the one engaging waveform was stunned, the one fighting Broadway punched and stunned Invictus, The four on the balcony one punched Techno Priest and missed one took a piece of railing and crushed T.I.G.H.T.S. with it, The last two waited till the Viper chopper got there and uploaded the hostages on cables.
Dr Quark jumped in the cocoons the hostages were in.
Ares drove his sword into a Phalanx and stunned it.
Viper flew the chopper in grabbed the hostages and flew off in a flash.
Prax pried open the elevator and saw three zip lines heading down and noticed how quite it was upstairs.
T.I.G.H.T.S. recovered from being stunned
Broadway went upstairs desolid and realized that occupants of the top two floors of the building were in a single large room and were rigged to blow up.
Blaze jumped off the building and landed in the street below 22 stories down.
Techno Priest Fired his lazer at The Phalanx and missed
Invictus Recovered from being stunned.
Waveform grabbed all the heroes I think including the flyers and took them all upstairs to the floor with the hostages through her water powers.
The Trial of Ray Park
Initiative Order
Round 6
Phalanx and Duplicates 23
Quark 20
Ares 19
Viper Agents 17
Praxiteles The Golem 14 (Iron Golem)
T.I.G.H.T.S. 13
Broadway 13
Blaze 12
Techno Priest 12
Invictus 11
Waveform 11
Waveform took you all (besides Dr Quark) upstairs. You are standing outside a door that looks wired to explode. Inside each person about 20 or so, are wired to barrels of chemical with a detonator on top each, they all have wheels so the people can move around. The barrels are wired to each other as well as being wired to the door. The windows look like they are also wired to the door.
Round 6 Init 12
Techno Priest struggles to stay afloat in the sudden wave of water as his body washes left and right, bumping into friend, foe and hostage alike. Doubled over, he takes a second of heaving to catch his breath, having been caught off guard by the strange torrent of not-quite-wet water. When he looks up, he notices the bulky door frilled with strange wires. The human bits of his mind goes blank as dread flushes through the human bits of his body.
"B-b-b-bu-bu-bu- BOMB""
He falls flat on his butt as he begins to panic. Face turned pale, eyes blacked over without a glow, his usual confidence gone.
A bomb. Bombs, more than one. This is going to kill us all. We're done for. Gonna get blown to kingdom come."
Suddenly, a click. The amber glow of his eyes come back, his skin back to it's olive tone. A calm comes over him, and his confidence is returned.
"I can handle the bombs."
He reaches a hand out towards the wired door and senses the length of wires used and the detonators.
"The windows are rigged too."
I also think it depends on if you are summoning specific weapons or if you are summoning the ideals of weapons.
Round 6 Init 13.
Isaac's head cleared and he immediately checked his defensive systems. No damage to- Oh. Bomb. Militia nut fertilizer special? He stepped forward without giving it a second thought and began the examine the wiring and detonators.
"And I left my breadboard in my other spandex."
Round 6 Init 11
Thetis? Invictus watched in wonder as a surge of hydro-kinetic waves washed through the courtroom, the powerful surge carrying Invictus and his fellow heroes up a stairwell where they found a room rigged to blow.
Looking around at the other heroes, he didn't recognize any of them. The man of steel, and the spartan clad warrior had assisted him with Phalanxes duplicates, and there was Priest.
He stepped forward towards the other heroes, "I can have the hostages removed from the room faster than the detonators can trigger the explosives, but the signals will still get there, and they will still blow." He clapped a hand on Tech Priest's shoulder, "Can you defuse them with less collateral damage?"
Techno Priest buckles slightly under the unexpected force of Invictus's hand. He looks back at him as if snapped out of a lull.
"What? Oh, yeah. Probably."
When T.I.G.H.T.S. started to quickly mess with the device rigged to the door things seemed to get worst instead of better he failed to disable it and seemed to damage the device to make it even harder to disarm.
"I don't know anything about electronics, but I can control if the water touches them. It probably won't help right now, but if you need it while you're working it might help. I guess?"
We need to get those people out of there. Can anyone get inside the room without using the windows or doors?
"Yeah, I can. But I don't know about getting them out. I can put up a shield to give them some protection, but I don't know if it'll be enough. I can shape the shield too, so if we open a wall, I can try to form a slide or something down to a lower level."
Round 6 Init 11.
Invictus looked towards the young woman who had whisked the heroes to the upper floors, "Hydrokinetic of some sort?", he then turned towards Broadway, "Sonics judging from the frequencies I heard from inside the court room, you say you can generate fields of solid sound?" Invictus ran through some mental calculations, calling on some of Centurion's experience with the Freedom League.
"Here's the plan, Priest, you do your techno thing and delay the detonators as long as you can, it won't take me much time at all to clear the room." He turned indicating the young woman, "If you can flood the room with as much water as you can it should help diminish the shock wave. Young man," he clapped a hand on Broadway's shoulder, "I need you to surround her sphere of water with a wall of pure sound, as solid as you can make it." Then he turned to look at his two companions from the lobby, a literal man of steel and a self proclaimed god, "If you can clear any stragglers from the floor below us." He paused, and turned to Ares, "And if you truly are a good, we could use a little luck."
And finally Invictus turned to Tights, "If not mistaken, I believe I saw you flying about the courtroom, pursue the Viper-copter, try to stay directly above it, and if at all possible broadcast your location across a police band. Once we've rescued these folks, we'll converge on the chopper and stop them together."
He gave a look to the entire assembled heroes, he did his best to assume Centurion's calm confidence, hoping that it would inspire those who had chosen to stand against Viper today. "Alright, lets do this."
OOC: Though a staple of comic books, I hate hostage scenarios as they tend to slow a game down and encourage discussion of strategy, consequences and other such. It's a comic book, lets be heroes. I am going to assume that while we are talking everyone if focusing their initiative so that we can all act on the same phase, and when we are ready to act I am going to power stunt my Strength & Speed array to the following:
. . . . Power Stunt (Teleport 7) (Alternate; 700 ft. as move action, DC 17; Affects Others (Only), Burst Area (35-175 ft. radius - General); Distracting, Short-Range; Progression, Increase Area 2 (area x5), Selective)Hopefully getting them 700' feet away will be enough, and then between Waveform & Broadway contain the explosion. Ares & Golem could move in pursuit of Blaze who went street level maybe, and Tights can take off after the Viper-Copter. It's risky, but it's rule of cool right. Asses kicked but save innocents in dramatic fashion >.>
"Doesn't water expanding like that create more force, not less?" Broadway shrugs. "I think I can cover the whole room, not sure" He flashes a gigawatt smile to Waveform, "Ready to save a government building? Or get blown up in an amazing, watery, loud explosion? I'm up for it, it sounds like loads of fun, almost as much fun as taking on the one man offensive line we were fighting earlier." Broadway absent-mindedly rubs his throat where Phalanx clotheslined him earlier.
"Not when it's my water." she says with a smile. The smile is probably not as bright as it could be as she clutches her chest, where a couple of ribs are probably broken. But she doesn't let that slow her down too much as she pulls the firehose from the wall and turns the valve to build up the water she needs.
Ares growls as his sodden cloak clings to his back hampering his movements. He hates being wet. It made his armor smell. Wet leather and bronze is never a comfortable experience. For a money, he considers yelling at Waveform. If she insists on doing the work the of a seasoned warrior, she must learn the proper forms of battle and the chain of command! If a recruit acted the way she did in a battle, the entire platoon could be lost!
Then, he remembers how his own kids act. It was an impulsive move, sure, but it wasn't stupid. She clearly had thought about it. Besides, had he been so different during the Titanomachy?
"Well done, girl. You show great promise with tactics. Next time, a warning would be wise.".
He draws back holding his shield ready to absorbs an explosion, should Techno apriest's powers fail him. "Stand behind me. The shield of War shall protect you.". This time, he definitely smirks beneath his helm.
I do not know if would help but I can create objects that might provide additonal protection to the building. I could also covertly follow blaze if I leave now. What do you think would help more?
Golem looks torn between the two ideas and looks for guidance.
It would be wise to follow Blaze. Other can provide support for this structure, Golem.
Round 6 Init 13.
"No I- Wait that's a good idea. Bye."
Isaac looked for the easiest way out that didn't involve triggering a bomb, and took it to begin his pursuit.
Round 6 Init 14.
Golem suddenly freezes as the force animatin him seems to gave abandoned the body. He flies off out the balcony and down searching for Blaze in the streets below.
Flying around 10k mph looking around street level.
Round 6 Init 12
Techno Priest loosens his grip on his tech scepter. The staff begins to break down into a swarm of sparking nanites. He moves up to the door and shouts to the hostages, hoping they could hear him.
Hey, stay calm. We're coming to save you all. This is very important: is anyone dependent on any electrical or electronic machines to keep them alive? Pacemakers and such?
He waits for a response.
The nebulous swarm of nanites creep beneath the crack at the bottom of the door and begin to fill in the room, forming a loose mesh around anything electronic. Each nanite then gives off a pale blue glow as they dull the capabilities of the detonators.
Nano Anti-Tech Field (Nullify 6) (Array; counters: all powers of (type) - technology , DC 16; Cloud Area (30 ft. diameter, lingers - General))
Broadway lets out an odd hum, and becomes insubstantial again, and moves towards an internal window. "Waveform, I'm going to weave a wall around the people, can you weave your water around that, solid? My wall should give them air and protection. We can double that with yours, I hope."
Broadway sustains a high note, and a solid wall of sound starts around one person, in between the barrel and the person as Techno Priest's nanobots move onto the device. The wall expands forming a short corridor to the next person and does the same, and then the next and the next...
Force wall usable on others, pushed to add two levels. FF 9 for each person. Broadway is insubtantial.
OOC: Though a staple of comic books, I hate hostage scenarios as they tend to slow a game down and encourage discussion of strategy, consequences and other such. It's a comic book, lets be heroes. I am going to assume that while we are talking everyone if focusing their initiative so that we can all act on the same phase, and when we are ready to act I am going to power stunt my Strength & Speed array to the following:
. . . . Power Stunt (Teleport 7) (Alternate; 700 ft. as move action, DC 17; Affects Others (Only), Burst Area (35-175 ft. radius - General); Distracting, Short-Range; Progression, Increase Area 2 (area x5), Selective)
Hopefully getting them 700' feet away will be enough, and then between Waveform & Broadway contain the explosion. Ares & Golem could move in pursuit of Blaze who went street level maybe, and Tights can take off after the Viper-Copter. It's risky, but it's rule of cool right. Asses kicked but save innocents in dramatic fashion >.>
"Let's do it the other way around. Water inside the force field. Even if there were people there, it wouldn't be a problem. " She gets ready to force them in. [b]" I'll leave a pocket of air near the northeast corner window. If we can't contain it, it'll channel it that direction and there's nothing that tall over there.
Broadway nods, and smiles at Waveform, "Alright, let's do this thing" With the people suddenly gone, he changes the pitch of the note he's singing and the wall changes to form outside the wall of water.
Ares readies his shield to block the blast and then charge in to grab stragglers. aye, let us make War.
After the 8 of you had taken some time to assess the situation.
T.I.G.H.T.S impulsive as ever tried to disarm the device without any discussion with the group. That went bad but not as bad as it could of.
Invictus took the lead and made the plan with so here is how everything goes down
Dr Quark you are up in the chopper itself now.
Ares goes back down to the court room all the Phalanxes are gone.
Golem goes and looks for Blaze all you can find is the car he crashed into but he seems to have gotten up and walked away.
Invictus, Waveform, Broadway, and Techno Priest do their coordinated action.
Your actions go off without a hitch
Invictus goes in and grabs all the people techno priest nullifies the detonators while Broadway and Waveform contain the coming explosion with the water and the forcefield.
T.I.G.H.T.S. after you almost kill everyone in the room and possibility the entire team before it was formed you speed away through the sky trying to track down the chopper a large jet flying as fast as you in not faster zips past the courthouse in the same direction the Chopper.
@T.I.G.H.T.S. as you attempt to follow the chopper the jet that passes by you is a familiar one.
Its the Freedom Leagues Jet and it closed fast on the chopper and is right on top of it while maintaining speed and position.
Flying low out of the Jet is Captain Thunder with hands crackling with electricity trying to engage the chopper.
Broadcasting over radio signal is a call to stop the chopper and take it to the ground from the freedom league jet.
@Dr. Quark the chopper suddenly slows some and you can hear over the broadcast over the speakers in the chopper to take the chopper to the ground immediately.
Round 27? Init 20.
Sliding between the bonds of the strange polymer, Dr. Quark returned to the normal sized world. Still the size of a bug, he looked up the long legs and torso of one of the Viper guards and said, Hey boys, that's the Freedom League out there. Why don't you just go ahead and surrender. There's no reason for anyone here to have their jaw broken by Captain Thunder, is there?