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Herakles doesn't have any world spanning movement powers, but I'll certainly allow him to enter via Jason's powers if you post before Jason can. He could use super speed, flight in a Zeus powered storm, or just a dimensional shift-teleport that brings you in. DC Greek Gods have a lot of different powers. Just want to get everyone back together and get things moving.

She issues one more command into her commlink, hoping their kidnapper/handler. "Doc. Your mission's over unless we leave in seven seconds."

Doc speaks though the communicator, sounding to Maggie's ear like an older man yelling into a phone with a bad connection..."MAGGIE...CAN YOU HEAR ME? What is happening up there? I can't get you out of the Helicarrier, you are going to have to take care of that situation yourselves. I'm working on our departure.

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MEANWHILE

Herakles realizes that this is no adventure, but a Labor more challenging than any other he has faced. Years ago, he put down his weapons and tools, for the adventures he was having did not require them. He was at peace with Hera, Ares had been banished at the end of what they were calling World War 2, and things were well in his massive and massively strong hands.

He turns to Jason, "Take me to the Temple of Herakles in Agrigento, I must needs retrieve some treasures that I left there. Mayhap they might exist in this world."

Jason searches within, connecting with the Power of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. He infuses himself and Herakles with the speed of Hermes, and the two of them seem to vanish, only to reappear on a dry plateau in Italy.

In Herakles memory, there were 7 Greek style temples here, all in different levels of ruin. Columns, Pediments, Meanders, platforms. What he finds here is that everything has been toppled by a massive blast. The crepidoma, the three stepped platform upon which his own temple was built, has melted and fused into a single stone block. In this place and time, it has been 70 years and a worldwide nuclear war since he placed his accoutrement beneath the temple. Grim faced, Herakles shakes off his fury. He shakes his massive arms, spits in each hand and presses his hands together. He walks solemnly to the steps of the temple and places his calloused hands against the center step. The platform is 200 feet long and 75 feet wide. Tons upon tons of stone. Herakles grunts and digs his feet into the blasted ground. For a moment, all is still as he presses against the stone. And then...it begins to move. Stone grates on stone as the entire temple is shifted. Herakles pushes the stone corpse of the temple. What remains of its columns tumble and roll away as the massive stone platform shifts and slides away, revealing a small stone chamber in which are housed the panoply of Herakles. Rattles, a club, etc.

... @ST et Al. Hopefully that aligns Herak with the current state of play in some way. Question is does he still have the vestiges of Hermes’ speed to make his way back to the battle, or can he call upon Jason? Perhaps Jason hears his bellowed cry?

"You know you had no need for these things ... right brother? You needed to QUEST for them, finding them, well, that was really superfluous. I'm not sure I knew that when my power brought us here, but I too have quested. I too have learned. I also do not need all the power of Zeus, and I will find a way to give you more of it."

Jason had appeared absolutely out of nowhere behind his brother, smiling, gently. He seemed at peace in a way.

"You should also know that you called me here; I could pretend I heard you, but I think it is more important that you know your power. What I have heard though, bothers me. We are needed elsewhere, we must to return to the other wayward heroes; they need your strength, and maybe just a touch of mine as well."

Everything shimmers and the Dionysian Duo shift ... appearing not far from their heroic friends. With an outstretched hand, Jason directs his borther to the deck and surveys the situation.








What I want Jason to do is to see the nukes ... and transform them. Even just a little actually, like transforming their fins or canards into butterflies. A trick from the Circe playbook, but devious like that too: without guidance control, SkullNet has to decide if it wants armed missles to just go 'whereever' or whether it will disarm them.

It doesn't seem like unattended inanimate objects get a save vs Transform. Wow that is powerful.

The stabilizers on the second missile explode into clouds of butterflies. (Butterflies who immediately begin to freeze to death and suffocate as they flutter vigorously in the thin air.)

The missile itself shudders and then begins goes nose up and begins to tumble-spiral as its propulsion and guidance systems attempt to compensate. It trends generally toward the ground.

Herakles floats down onto the deck of the Helicarrier, arrayed for battle.

(He can just as easily float through the broken window onto the bridge if BD prefers.)

Maggie moves toward Beetle and offers him the grenade launcher if he wants it. She spots the unconscious men laid by the elevator. The paper doll then passes her the rocket launcher and goes over and picks up Kyle Reese with its four arms.

"Do you know where any time warping tech is?" she asks Beetle.

She'll move in whatever direction she indicates. She responds to Doc on the commlink in Cantonese. "如何制造时间扭曲？"

我相信喺呢個現實嘅迭代中，時間旅行嘅主要手段係一個大型嘅球形裝置。佢只係能夠取代有機物質，或者你可以用機器周圍嘅有機殼嚟欺騙佢。其實係呀，我覺得係噉樣 運作。哦，但係你其實係咪問緊我嘅事？我有部裝置可以為我哋所有人建立一個出口，等佢哋可以離開呢度。

As actions go, I think we are waiting on Herakles and Blue Beetle. I'll post Skull-Net actions and both those two on Wednesday if necessary.

On deck Herak watches as Jason brings to bear truly Olympian magicks upon the nukes and nods appreciatively;

"Truly, tho it pains me to say, thou art more of a god than I now lad..."

Grim faced he hefts his club, looking for a way to the others...

"Jason! I bring a gift I wish to bequeath! From-whence do our foes and friends do battle?!"

ST - Not sure of the map & if he can drop to the sub-level via the deck elevator or if not are there "Sentry made" holes he can use to enter the fray?

I can't remember where Sentry went in and out, but there's a Maggie-made hole on the map that I've just marked with a red circle

@Maggie: Gotcha

As he pauses, the familiar clamour of war reaches the ears of the Old Lion and he sets forth to join his allies;

"Once again I doth battle evil - as it ever was and ever is..."

Moving to the lower deck and to the fray!

Sentry came through the bridge windshield

Skull-Net's features twist in rage as the two dots representing the missiles wink out on the bridge's screens. It turns to a console and pours tendrils of nanites into the machinery, creating thousands of spiderweb like connections between it and the console.

Like Blue Beetle, it finds that the systems on the bridge are too damaged to access the Helicarrier's systems.

I think that gets us all lined up and everyone has a turn now. Top of the round.