Finally, you manage to tag the leader with the acid spray. The corrosive liquid manages to eat away at some of the armor on his shoulder. As the spray continues on, the archer is able to take cover behind the doorframe of the hovercraft. The acid hits the exterior and eats away a bit, but the damage hardly even cosmetic.
The hoverjet returns fire with the fold out turret.
The bullet penetrates his chest, and with his enhanced senses, he can feel it just narrowly miss his heart. Just the pressure of passing through causes his heart to skip a few beats and his head to swim.
Siphon is up.
Siphon feels a shiver run up and down her spine as the samurai says he has further plans for her -- including breaking her.
She also suddenly realizes that he's going to throw Sahara into the sealed cage and leave if he can. One set of sand powers wasn't enough, but maybe two?
"Both of us! Now!" Siphon shouts to the silokinetic, and uses her stolen sand powers at the same time!
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Sahara does her best to put what energy she has left behind Siphon's attack. They turn the ground of the old building into a wave of earth and stone. While the samurai is fast enough to avoid being buried beneath it, even he gets caught at the edge. The barrage of hard rocks knocks him off his feet and sends him rolling and tumbling across the floor. He manages to catch himself in a kneeling position by thrusting the tip of his katana into a part of the floor that was unaffected. Once the echoes of the attack have stopped, you can all hear him chuckling deeply behind his demon mask."That was actually pretty good. I guess I have to stop messing around."
Brisk is up. The only enemy left on the ground is Sapphire Samurai. The archer and hovercraft are still functioning too.
Sapphire Samurai is Dazed for his next turn.
Brisk whips around the building and sends a barrage of marbles at the thrusters holding the ship aloft before disappearing around the building once more.
The marbles shatter against the metal plating.
Sapphire Samurai suddenly splits into three identical people. They all speak in unison. "Now, get ready for a real fight!"
Bug Hunter is up.
Baxter is all ready to pick off the last couple of thugs when some kind of double earth wall knocks the samurai on his backside. No time to cheer however as he comes back in triplicate.
Suddenly facing a room full of swordsmen, he only hesitates a moment before looking down and chuckling to himself. "Oh yeah. I got a flamethrower." He whirls around into a tactical crouch and swings the danger end from left to right as he holds down the trigger.
All three of the samurai weave in and out, over and under the flames, seemingly never touched by them. While Bug Hunter is trying sweeping the area in flames, the archer in the flying machine takes another shot at him.
The arrow punctures through his ribs, and he thinks it hit something important that time as the metallic taste of blood wells up in the back of his throat.
Doctor Night is up.
Doctor Night reels in pain from the gunshot. He notices that Bug Hunter is in distress and he would like to help but at the moment all he can do is focus on continuing with his dragon breath trying to target as many enemies as he can from his current position.
Line area of effect: 5 feet wide by 30 feet long of acid. Reflex DC 16 to halve the damage effect. Toughness DC 21 or DC 18 on a successful reflex save for any person caught in the effect.
As he completes his attack his mind clears and his heart beat stabilises.
The center samurai narrowly dodges the stream of acid as it passes by. His armor continues to corrode and bits of burned skin are exposed to the air. The green liquid continues on to hit one of the hovercraft's engines. The turbine spits out sparks, and the vehicle dips in the air before stabilizing. It returns the favor by opening up gunfire at the alchemist once again.
He manages to get out of the range of fire.
Siphon is up.
Siphon blinks in shock when the samurai duplicates, then smiles. "Now that I gotta try."
She darts in to the nearest clone and tries to drain it.
The duplicate sidesteps her hand when she gets close.
Sahara hurls a shower of debris at the group of Samurai.
Faigue must be starting to get to her because hardly any of the stones manage to get close to the targets. The pieces that do are easily dodged.
Brisk is up.
After two unsuccessful attacks and the injuries the new arrivals were taking, Siphon starts to reevaluate her options. "Maybe we should get outta here?" she says to Sahara.
Brisk whips around the a side building and sends another barrage at the hovercraft before dodging back out of sight.
The shot ricochets off the steel hull.
The three copies of Sapphire Samurai teleport simultaneously and reappear to surround Sahara.
Bug Hunter is up.
Baxter takes an arrow that he's pretty sure should kill him. Luckily, he's made of different stuff than most people. Literally. However, he's not going to just shrug that one off either. He starts to go down, overcome by the powerful need for a nap, but then he sees the girl get surrounded by samurais. That doesn't look good.
Struggling to keep moving, Baxter pats around his jacket but comes up disappointed. Anything he has is going to hit too many people or not enough. His hand comes out with a spiderweb mine and after just a moment of consideration he tosses it high in the air towards the archer and the airship. He then falls to one knee and wonders if he's getting paid enough for this. Or if he's even on the right side.
In his injured state, Bug Hunter's throw is too weak to make it far in the air. The device falls limply back to earth and exploded harmlessly on the ground.
The archer fires at the surrounded Sahara.
Just before the arrow hits her, Sahara morphs her body back into solid stone and the arrow shatters harmlessly against her granite skin.
Doctor Night is up.
Doctor Night sees that Bug Hunter is in distress so he hops to it. He closes the gap and douses the hero with a magical healing solution.
The hovercraft's turret swivels on its mount away from the doctor and towards Sahara. It opens fire at her while she is still in stone form.
However, she reflexively switches back to her sand form and the bullets pass harmlessly through her insubstantial form.
Siphon is up.
"Get away from her!" Siphon shouts as Sahara is surrounded by the Samurai's copies. She takes her best guess as to the real one (definitely not picking the one with the acid burns) and darts in to try to drain him.
Siphon's hand goes right through one of the Samurai. In a moment of shock, she wonders if Sahara's powers had accidentally boosted her strength without her realizing. After half a second, she realizes that she isn't draining any power from the duplicate. Then it hits her. The copies are mere illusions, not real beings.
Sahara hardens her hand and swings wildly at another of the samurai to deter which one is real.
Her wild and tired assault is easily avoided.
Brisk is up.
Brisk swings around for another pass at the hovercraft before seeking cover behind a building again..
The vehicle continues to weather Brisk's harrying assault with no ill effects.
Two of the samurai move to strike at her with their blades, while the third moves closer.
She transforms to her stone form to protect herself from the sword attacks, but they stop just inches from her stone skin as the third wraps his hand around her forearm. Realizing her mistake too late, she fails to shift back to sand before a blue light envelopes the four of them. At the same time, a second blue light flashes within the containment unit beneath the hovercraft, and in that flash, Sahara had been transported into the transparent cage, still surrounded by the three warriors.
Bug Hunter is up.
Just when he's sure it's lights out, at least for the afternoon, the jumpy guy from the school shows up and splashes some potion on him. Baxter is amazed at how much better he feels. "Woah, thanks dude." With no time to waste he whips around to take on the samurai, only to find him gone. A quick assessment reveals he has somehow entered a box, and taken one of the women with him.
Thinking quickly, Baxter's coat spreads open in the back and large, thrumming insect wings spring to life, carrying him towards the hoverjet. "Hey, mind if I hitch a ride?" He asks as he flies toward the archer, lobbing a lightning bug towards the hoverjet itself.
The lightning bug flies past the hovercraft and starts to circle back.
The archer fires off another arrow at the bug hero.
With his energy renewed, Hunter swerves midair and easily avoids the projectile.
Doctor Night is up.
Doctor Night decides that it is time to try and take out the hovercraft. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out what appears to be an enormous lance of pure electrical energy. He stabs fiercely at the craft in an attempt to further disable it.
Doctor Night's lance pierces the armor plating of the hovercraft, and sparks fly from the torn metal. The propulsion engines sputter a bit, but still, the vehicle takes into the air above the warehouse district with Sahara's cage dangling above the old industrial buildings.
Siphon and Brisk can go. It's up to you guys whether you want to pursue or not.
"No!!" Siphon shouts as Sahara is about to be abducted. In desperation, she calls upon the sand powers and throws them at the cable attached to the cage, hoping to sever it from the hoverjet.
Brisk comes around and aims more marbles towards the area pierced by Doctor Knight. He calls out, [b]"This thing is tough!" He then zips off and again disappears behind a building down the block.
Brisk's marble narrowly misses the gap in the armor caused by Doctor Night.
The lightning bug released by the hunter follows the hovercraft into the air and detonates against it.
Sahara strikes out at one of the Samurai.
The warriors continue to easily dodge her melee attacks while observing the fight from within the cage.
The electrical discharge is powerful enough to slow, but not stop the aircraft.
Bug Hunter is up. The aircraft has traveled 1/4 mile from the battlesite so far.
Bug Hunter watches the hoverjet speed off, taking a few people with it, but his wings are totally helpless to catch up. He slowly touches back down and looks around at the mayhem around him. "Hey, anybody alive? Think we'd better call some emergency services. Like, maybe all of them."
You all see that the hunter has refrained from giving chase. Are any of you planning to pursue the hovercraft?
Doctor Night with his medical training and enhanced senses suspects that none of the people knocked out are in any immediate danger. He calls out to Bug Hunter before bounding off in wild pursuit of the hover jet.
"Take the new girl and follow in your van. We cannot let this Sapphire Samurai get away with his prize!"
Double move of 1000 feet (Speed 4 Leaping).
Brisk takes after it ready to throw marbles as he dodges at super speeds around buildings.
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Doctor Night manages to keep up with the hovercraft by jumping across the roofs of the warehouses.
Meanwhile, Brisk is able to easily catch and pass the vehicle. He winds for a powerful throw with a marble from his bag, and when it passes overhead, he releases the little projectile at supersonic speeds. The glass shatters with enough force the blow a shotgun sized hole in the metal plating.
Bug Hunter expresses concerns about being able to keep up, but thinking quickly, Siphon is able to form a platform beneath herself and the strange insect hero. The stone warps around their feet, holding them in place as she propels them after the others.
The hovercraft increases it's speed to try and lose the pursuing heroes.
Everyone can go.
Brisk continues zipping ahead of the hover craft, trying to hit it and then dodging behind buildings. Sadly, he misses by a country mile.
"We're not letting him get her! We're not letting him have her for 'study and experimentation'!!" Siphon shouts as she calls a disk of sand to fly her and the bug guy after the hoverjet.
While keeping pursuit, she tries to fling a sand missile at the hoverjet's engines.
Sahara's sand missile gumps up one of the two engines of the hovercraft. It sputters and dies, but the vehicle remains in the air. It seems, much like airplanes, the craft can propel itself with only a single engine.
Doctor Night is just able to keep up with his hoping around. He is hopeful that with one engine down that the hover jet will slow.
Double Move of 1000 feet (Leaping Rank 4).
Baxter is a little surprised to be suddenly whisked away on a sand platform by a, what, emo high school girl? "Oh--ohhhkay here we go." He says as he tries to hold on. It was way faster than buzzing around, and felt way less secure, but at least they were keeping up. Still one thing bothered him about the whole arrangement. "Aw man, I think I left my keys in the van."
Soon they were closing in on the hoverjet. As he gets close enough to throw, he fishes a lightning bug out of his jacket and hurls it towards the sputtering craft. But crashing it wasn't a great option if this was a rescue mission, prompting him to query the emo girl, "Can you get me inside?"
The girl takes a confused glance at the bug man and his question. "Do you know a teleporter? Nevermind. Just hang on! Sahara's tougher than she looks! A crash shouldn't hurt her!"
Bug's little projectile hits the vehicle and explodes in a shower of sparks, but doesn't seem to have any effect.
The hovercraft returns fire against the two riding of the stone platform.
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Siphon maneuvers the platform so that it protects them from the gunfire.
The Sapphire Samurai strikes at Sahara inside the glass prison.
Sahara is hit hard by the energy blade. She screams in pain, until finally, she passes out. You all see her collapse onto the floor of the transparent prison.
Everyone go!
Brisk zips back and forth between buildings ahead of the Hovercraft and throws another set of marbles at the craft.
Siphon continues pursuing on the sand disk while sending bolts of hardened sand after the fleeing hovercraft.
Having never sand-surfed through the city before, Baxter was having a hard time staying heroically focused on the objective instead of having a good time. He'd have to hang out with this girl again later.
Winding up a hornet like a baseball pitcher, he gives a quick introduction as an aside. "I'm Baxter by the way. Bug Hunter on the web." He hurls the hornet, only momentarily wishing he'd thrown a spiderweb mine to cash in on the obvious "web" joke.
While Siphon's makeshift projectiles slam harmlessly against the armored hull, Baxter's attack has more luck. The dart gets sucked into the last engine and it explodes in a shower of fire and smoke. With no other method of suspension, the hovercraft dives for the ground. The transparent enclosure hits the ground first, Sahara and the Samurai get caught up in the shower of glass.
Sahara's body crashes hard into the ground, unconsciously shifting into her sand form and spilling across the street just outside the warehouse district. The samurai makes a short teleport jump to land harmlessly on the ground just before the hovercraft slams into the ground, and skidding past the road and into the grass.
Doctor Night is able to keep up barely by pushing his leaping abilities to the utmost. He sees the unconscious and damaged heroine crash to the ground and moves to heal her with another packet of magically charged sand.