The blast from the one decent shooter in the batch reflects off her coat infused with demonic energies as it is makes the simple thing hard like a true demon's hide.
"Shouldn't have struck first Herc, cause you're all going down."
Hellion thrusts her blade all the way thru Herc's torso, killing him.
Two of the gang members drop their weapons, turn tail, and run. What do those of you who haven't acted yet do about them?
Hellion thrusts her blade all the way thru Herc's torso, killing him.
Looking out the back of the van, Rashomon swivels the machine gun blaster into position, and lets loose a burst of fire, strafing the ground right along the view of the gang members. The message should be pretty clear, drop your weapons and surrender.
Hearing Hellion’s call to arms, Vee Six nearly knocks Fortune over rushing into battle. Quickly surveying the battlefield, he sees Hellion already fighting the leader. He would liked that opportunity, but he knows well enough to not get into the middle of a duel. Instead he chooses the next largest thug and with a glare of menace, runs right towards him, staff powering up. Instead of hitting him with it, Six knows they want to keep a few of them alive, so he leaps up and plants a foot directly into the man’s chest.
Uh... i sure hope my Nonlethal damage didn't kill him.
The flat of Hellion's blade hits Herc upside the head, and he drops to the ground.
None of the other gangers run away, at least from that.
However, Rashomon's bullet spray does spook them, and two of them run away.
VeeSix moves towards one of the remaining gangers, and punches him in the abdomen, and with an audible "whoosh" as the wind is knocked out of him, the guy goes down.
The ganger that Angel went up to says "Yeah, well, too bad, because I want to hurt YOU!"
He drops his blaster pistol, grabs a vibro-blade from a sheath on his belt, and attacks :
= Raise
Doing
Which bounces off of Angel.
Round 2!
Engagements
Three gangers are unconscious, 2 are running away, and one is engaged with Angel.
Initiative
Rashomon – QH
Angel - 10H
Hellion – 10C
Gang – 8D
Fortune – 3D
VeeSix – 2S
Rashomon, Angel, and Hellion can act, in any order!
Rashomon takes aim at one of the fleeing gang members, and squeezes of a single, well aimed shot. Configured to a non-lethal energy pulse, hopefully it will only render the man unconscious.
Fortune laughs at how fast the leader hit the ground. Then as two of the gang flee, she says in her best Monty Python voice, "They've buggered off. They've scarpered." Then she continues, singing, "When danger reared it's ugly head, they bravely turned their tails and fled."
Angel raises an eyebrow, as though she had fully expected the thug to surrender. She swings her arm in a backhand slap.
Spending a benny to reroll.
Rashomon fires a well-aimed shot, hitting the ganger square in the back, and he drops to the ground, out cold.
Angel's slap hits, but has no effect. The ganger leers at her.
Hellion smiles smugly as Hercules goes down, "Poor shame, you're better equipped but no better in a fight." She then readies to pounce on the fleeing gangers, "Always more fun when they run!"
Then like a dart she's gone in a flash next to the furthest fleeing goon with a smile that really doesn't look right on a supposed 'hero'.
During her leap she flips her weapon around to bring the pommel of her up towards the gut of the ganger hoping to knock the fight out of him.
[Ooc]1st d8 aced again, do you want me to keep those noted like this or roll them separately btw? I know putting them completely separate might change the results but still curious. Believe that's all Pcs done/ooc]
The last ganger, who's running away, doesn't even see Hellion coming, and drops when she lands on him.
Angel's ganger attacks her again :
And hits, doing
Which doesn't do any damage.
Fortune and VeeSix are up, any order!
Seeing that the only one still standing is one of the thugs, he grimaces and picks up speed as he runs towards the thug, grabs him by the shoulders and says, ’I see we have one that just won’t give up. Teach him his lesson, Angel.”
Fortune laughs some more at the fates of the fleeing felonious fools. Then she focuses on the same card, which she uses to cast a different spell. Motes of light appear in the area of the last man standing, circle him, and then form steel cables that condense around him, attempting to tie him up.
Power Entangle (3 PP) + Strong (2 PP) for total of 5 PP.
Resist Roll Athletics, target 5.
Effect If the attacker wins, the victim is Entangled. If the attacker wins with a raise, the victim is Bound. The bonds are Hardness
Rules for breaking free Escaping a web, net, or the entangle power is a Strength −2 roll or Athletics roll (victim’s choice) minus
any penalties noted for the entanglement. The strong modifier adds -2 penalty to these rolls. This is an action. With success,
an Entangled hero is free of one particular entanglement or grappler. A Bound character improves to Entangled with a success; with
a raise, he’s free.
Round 3!
Initiative
Gang – KS
Hellion – QH
Rashomon – 10C
Angel - 8D
VeeSix – 4S
Fortune – 2S
The ganger tries to break free :
= 11, 2 Raises
And he immediately escapes from the magical bindings.
Everyone can act, but Angel is right in his face and engaged with him, so this one time I'd suggest that she go first, then everyone can do what they want depending on the results (anyone can reach him this round, and Angel and Veesix are already adjacent to him).
Angel punches at the ganger.
This time, instead of a slap, Angel punches the guy in the stomach. Her fist goes in as far as her wrist. The guy drops to the ground, unconscious.
Combat over!
What now?
Hellion sheathes her blade and grabs the one nearest her by the ankle dragging him back to the rest of the group.
"Well suppose it's time to strip them, and take em to the authorities yeah?"
Fortune strolls over as the others are tying people with zip ties and removing weapons and other stuff. Once the leader is tied, she sits crosslegged next to him and says, "Imma gonna to a little light reading."
She sorts through her Tarot deck and draws out the queen of swords, which she uses as a focus aid. She sets her phone to make a voice recording and then once in the guy's mind, she dictates relevant findings so she has a good record of what she learns. Then she rests a hand on his temple and concentrates, attempting a deep dive mind read.
Result = 6 + 5 = 11
I'm not going to go into the gritty details, but Fortune finds everything she wants.
The source of the shipment was an import-export business in China. The gang doesn't directly deal with V'Sori, but with their human representatives here on Star City.
What does everyone want to do with that information?
"We should let the boss know we're done here. He can decide how to get the police involved. I'm not sure we should let ourselves be identified as supers directly to the police. Hopefully, getting the leader arrested will put the fear of the big dogs in the rest of the gang and they'll vamoose or get real jobs and leave the locals alone."
”You’re right.” Six says as he finishes tying up the last of the gangers. ”The last thing we need is having to explain how we managed to take them all down so quickly.” He then taps the mic on his earpiece and contacts Meros. ”We’re done here boss, we need the locals to come pick up the trash, if you would be so kind as to let them know.”
He then takes over watch as until the last of his team gets into the van.
Angel is quick to get into the van. An entanglement with the authorities is the last thing she wants. If they run her name through a database...
I feel like he's going to want us to confiscate their gear as well. And doing that would just well, remove evidence that they were doing anything wrong in the first place." She let's out a shallow sigh, "Then again we also don't want em arming themselves with dangerous toys."
She wonders about the situation for a bit more looking to Rashomon, "Could you disassemble one of their blasters in a pinch to not be a danger? We could leave one disassembled and maybe a note to tell the cops the rest are going to a safer place for disposal." Hellion gives a shrug not knowing if that's being too thorough or not, she wasn't very good in her teamleadership 'classes' back at the Facility.
Meros replies "You can leave them with their gear. I have an arrangement with the police, they'll send any high-tech stuff to one of my facilities, where it will be broken down into parts and used to make useful, non-harmful high-tech equipment, which everyone so badly needs."
When Fortune gets back in the van, she draws a random Tarot card to see what the cards say will be the overall outcome of the mission.
Page of Pentacles (upright)
She interprets the card, mostly for her own interest, but to anyone in the van who is interested. "Looks like we did good. The people in this neighborhood will find it easier now ta get what they need. It might also suggest we're off ta a good start with our boss."
Then she draws a card to reveal what the group's next mission will involve.
Major Arcana: #21, The World
The card has many interpretations, but most of them good, pointing to completion of a task, reaching of a goal, integration of body and spirit. Fortune shrugs at this and says only, "Today, we took on some punks. Tomorrow, the world!"
Six smiles as he gets into the van last and hears Fortune’s explanation of her reading. ”I do not think the world is ready for us yet, but I like where you are at.”
"Ah well.. that sorts that, just kick em away from the goons then."
Hellion heads back to the van and hops in, "Now the real question, we wanna keep this party rolling or sit back and see how things touch off from here? Either way we should get the goods to the good ol' king before something happens to em."
She gives a smirk, "And hopefully he's learned that we can do some good by using them as leverage too. Even if that just means saying we have em."
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Meros notifies the police to come and pick up the gang members and their equipment. You all can go back to base.
So...continue to attack the gang, or wait for a reaction from them and in the meantime wait for a mission from Meros? Rule of Two...
Back at base, you hear Meros' voice "I have recruited a new member for your team. He should be arriving shortly..."
Fortune hopes it will be someone closer to her own age. The time she spent pretending to be homeless reminded her what it can be like to be with people similar to herself, particularly teenagers. She doesn't have high expectations however. She decides she'll just need to spend time hitting night spots and using her powers to get past the bouncers checking IDs.
”So, boss, does that mean you have something in mind for us to do that will require his particular set of skills?” Six goes about cleaning his gear and making sure his room is as spartan as it can be. To know one in particular, he says, ”I wonder if we should keep the pressure up on Hellion’s old gang. If they get a chance to regroup, it could be harder on us to deal with them in the future.”
"I've made a few friends in the area," Fortune says. "I can pass through every so often and do a pulse check to see if the gang is trying to get active. I doubt they'll recover quickly once their leaders are arrested."
Hellion chimes in as she moves about the room, "Well, Herc wasn't like... a big leader so we definitely haven't taken them down for good. So I'd like to keep the pressure up if we want to have the least amount of problems."
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Meros answers "Well, this person does have a unique skill set, but I don't have a particular job in mind that requires them. VeeSix, if your question about the gang was directed at me, I don't care. What you do in-between my missions and how you do it is entirely up to you, as long as you keep the location of the base secret."
By the way, when the new member arrives, ask for a password - it should be "dolphins fly by night". You tell him "penguins have no mercy".
Meros answers "Well, this person does have a unique skill set, but I don't have a particular job in mind that requires them. VeeSix, if your question about the gang was directed at me, I don't care. What you do in-between my missions and how you do it is entirely up to you, as long as you keep the location of the base secret."
By the way, when the new member arrives, ask for a password - it should be "dolphins fly by night". You tell him "penguins have no mercy".
When Fortune hears that last phrase, she cracks up. It's the first time you've seen her this happy since she joined the team. She says, "I'd love a t-shirt with that on it! Maybe a picture of a gangster-penguin with a tommy gun and a cigarette."
He walked. He walked several blocks, which was something he became more and more used to after the attack. Fly somewhere, land out of sight, put on a trench coat, act like you were normal. It sucked. When his parents trained him, they never conceived of this. That ended. Ended quite some time ago.
Quite some time ago for someone who just turned 20; maybe for much older people it seemed like a shorter time. Not for Sentry. For Sentry, it felt like he had lived without his parents a whole lifetime. Warden & Zephyr symbolized iconic heroism, not simply for the pursuit of justice, but also for the pursuit of legacy, for having had a son; for actually having created a succession that the whole world kept its eye on at one point. Until the V’s vaporized them.
So he walked. He landed several blocks from where Meros told him to meet the heroes. There hadn’t seemed to be a lot of activity when he scouted from the sky, and when he focused, he didn’t seem to hear anything either; all of which could mean the team was on the assignment they’d been given. It would probably be just as well to case the place, see if it had a doorbell, or if maybe he was supposed to knock on a window or something.
What he found looked like an old school intercom, functioned like a comm panel, and blended in so well only someone like himself would have found it: ”Hey, uh, my name is Sentry. I’m here about the fish. The dolphins. They fly by night … “ Hopefully that did the trick. His instructions didn’t say to act or sound like a total gooner, so deviating from the vintage vid format seemed okay. Taking a deep breath and intoning “the password I was given is …” would be way over the top and way too Downton Abbey. No sense having everyone think he was lame right at the get go.
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The female voice crackles out of the speaker, "They all got shot down by the penguins, without mercy, I might add."
Then a click is heard at a door which leads to an apparently deserted and gutted shop. A door opens and a teenager girl peeks around the corner and gestures Sentry to follow her. She leads him through a brief maze of halls, saying, "I'm Fortune Brav0. Nice ta have someone closer to my age in the group."
Eventually, they reach an area where several other adults are doing various things. There are two women and two men. "Hey, all!" Fortune calls out. "This is our noob. Name's Sentry." She lets the others introduce themselves. She lays down a plank (i.e. skateboard) and shifts about, staying mostly in the same place but turning this way and that.
She appears to be around 14 or 15, with dark hair, a few tats, and grungy clothes. On her belt is a largish leather pouch that appears to hold something the size of an old-fashioned paperback book. Her only other piece of hardware is a small dagger. She has a wiry frame. She is not what most people imagine when they think of a super. Looks can be deceiving, of course.
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Angel comes forward to greet the newcomer. "I'm Angel," she says sweetly. Angel stands about 5 foot, 6 inches tall and weighs about 130 lbs. She looks to be about 25 years old, with jet-black hair and blue eyes. She wears street clothing rather than a costume; a Star Wars t-shirt, jeans, and sensible sneakers.
Six looks up at Sentry as he walks. ”Dolphins, penguins.. definitely an Atlantean thing.”, he mutters, more to himself than anyone in particular. He then stands up from admiring another piece of V’Sori hardware from his collection, attempting to see if it will work on his armor. He is almost as tall as he is wide. He is the physical embodiment of health and looks as if he can tear the doors off an armored car. He holds out a hand to Sentry. ”VeeSix, or just Six to most everyone. Welcome to the icehouse, Penguin.”
For the briefest of moments, Setry's eyes flash. He shakes off what looks like confusion, holds out his hand to VeeSix and says, "I'm not sure I even know what a penguin IS; but I was home schooled, so there's a lot I don't know about this world. Pleasure to meet you Mr. Six, Ms Angel."
Rashomon pushes past the newcomer and the group of welcomers with a mobile toolbox, as usual, dressed in mechanic's coveralls, which are in turn, covered with engine grease.
He offers the stranger a quick informal bow by way of a nod of the head, ""I am Rashomon, pleased to make your acquaintance"
Rashomon is a small statured asian man, a hair over five feet tall, and looks closer to 60 than the prime age you'd expect of most heroes.
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A red skinned woman in a tank top rolls out from under the van that can be seen just through a door on the other side of the room. "Rashomon you find those parts?"
She notices the new guy and gives a casual wave, "Yo new guy they'll get you all situated feel free to snag one of the free rooms!"
"Show me your super powers and I'll show you mine," Fortune says, with a hint of a smirk.
"I would so totally love to ... but I'd don't know if your base has healthcare, and it would be a shame to damage you when we've only just met."
The young man clearly smiles at his own joke, and looks back over his should to wink at Fortune as he walks a little further into the impressive space.
"To be fair though, I also come with a bunch of "son of" coverage back in the day, so the easy to find stuff is, well, easy to find. "The Son of Warden & Zephyr inherits power of flight!" "A bullet bounces off of The Son of Warden & Zephyr!" "X-Ray Vision!?!? The Son of Warden & Zephyr out-powers his parents!" At one point, it was a little much to be honest. So yeah, you first."
A shadow passes over Fortune's long, thin face. "Least ya knew your parents. My dad was dead time I was born. I inherited my mother's magic deck of cards after she was killed in the V'Sorrys ambush. No headlines for me."
A red skinned woman in a tank top rolls out from under the van that can be seen just through a door on the other side of the room. "Rashomon you find those parts?"
She notices the new guy and gives a casual wave, "Yo new guy they'll get you all situated feel free to snag one of the free rooms!"
"We had a spare on the shelf, but it was the wrong model for this vehicle. I've taken it to the auto parts depot to exchange it for the correct one. In the meantime, I brought the degreaser and the valve sealant. I should be back with the part shortly; the clerk is in the back of the store fetching it now."
Listening to Sentry and Fortune talk, "Ah, so you are a Legacy being are you? I look forward to hearing more about you."