Nice work Stuart, looking forward to seeing some more PFS games in Durban. No pressure!
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Thanks. Appreciate the feedback. That lays to rest my worries.
I did another pre-order and moved one item off the pre-order onto the current order. Just checking it didn't mess anything up for shipping purposes and that my credit card hasn't been billed yet for the existing order. I'm expecting to be billed 50.99 USD when Beyond the Rim and the dice set ship, and that the dice set will be shipped with Beyond the Rim, not Enter the Unknown? Is this correct? Additionally has Paizo received their copies of Beyond the Rim and will it be shipping soon? Thanks!
Is it dead?
"Let's continue the hunt then!", Wolverine says hopping back into the truck they "borrowed" and starting it up. Once everyone gets back into the truck, Wolverine sends it flying down the road to the drop off point Emma identified. Stepping out the truck Wolverine sniffs the air trying to catch any trace of Nitro's scent, looking closely at the ground off the road for any footprints possibly left by Nitro, hopefully not too obscured by weather and time.
"We're coming to make you pay for your sins Nitro, and it ain't gonna be pretty.", Wolverine mutters before turning back to the group, "We don't have any time left, lets find this scum!"
"Damn, we must have missed him jumping out the truck. Emma any ideas where in Big Sur Nitro was dropped off?", Logan asks before unsheathing his claws, "Or I could just ask the driver 'politely', either way we don't have much time before that bill is passed." Logan considers how lucky it is that Big Sur is so sparsely populated. It will reduce the collateral damage for capturing Nitro. Is it possible Nitro is hiding there for just that reason?
"We don't need another explosion, lets scout around quickly, make sure Nitro really isn't in the area, but before that," Wolverine stalks over to the pickup truck Nitro arrived in, slashing all four tires with his claws, "Just a little bit of property damage to ensure our prey doesn't leave the party early."
Wolverine sniffs the air following the scent forward along the road, "He went this way but he's gained some distance on us. I doubt devil-boy will be able to keep jumping at the pace we require to catch up, who's up for borrowing a car?" Logan starts casing the street for a likely looking empty vehicle to continue the pursuit.
"Let's stop wasting our time here, I'm eager to catch up with Nitro and show him the error of his ways!" Wolverine takes up the offered hand gripping Nightcrawler's forearm, "Nitro hopped into a pickup truck on the eastern edge of the blast zone. Jump us onto McMurphy Road just out of sight of the police and I should be able to pick up his trail and follow him from there."
Logan fixes the scent in his mind before quietly slipping back to where Emma and Hank are. "It would seem Nitro survived and ran away like the rat he is," Wolverine mutters under his breath, "I've got his scent, he got into a pickup truck, but it may take some time to track him down. Are you interested in joining in?"
Fair enough, we can resolve through roleplay which option it is. Basically if Wolverine does end up going off by himself it seems best I pick another X-Man to stick around and keep the timeline/thread cohesive.
Regarding Wolverine following Nitro, it seems likely that he would have to go off the grid for a while. Would it be acceptable to put him on the trace of Nitro and let that all get handled behind the scenes while I continue on as another X-man until Wolverine reports back?
Ducking under the crime scene tape, Wolverine takes in the initial blast zone. The devastation seems massive. "Where did you go from here Nitro?", Wolverine thinks to himself before picking over the area, seemingly guided more by his incredible senses then any investigative skills.
Logan surveys the landscape that's been left a wasteland from Nitro's explosion. His jaw clenches, "When I find you Nitro, I'm going take you apart!" Logan then makes his way over the rubble heading for Ground Zero and attempts to duck under the crime scene tape with hopefully no interference from the Government lackeys.
"Fine we do it your way," Logan mutters. "But while you give out hugs and care packs, I'm going to scout the area and see where Nitro may have gone." Logan fixes his eyes on the horizon and cracks his knuckles, "I'm going to find you Nitro, and when I do I will make sure you regret it."
I'd like to grab MY ALLY, MY ENEMY as my additional milestone. After the Pro-Reg/Anti-Reg split really happens I'll set who the ally turned enemy is.
"Did any of the New Warriors survive?" Wolverine asks. Wolverine smashes his fist against the console, "Screw response, we need to track Nitro down and make him pay for this!"
"Those kids are going to end up in a load of trouble one day," Wolverine grumbles before turning back to Fury's men, "I suggest putting a sock in Crusader's mouth before he prattles your ear off about saving your souls. Send my regards to Fury." Wolverine approaches the surviving FBI agents, "Keeping in mind we saved your skins, tell your bosses that the X-Men can only react so quickly by not being tied down by bureaucratic strings. I expect we can let you handle getting the money into the right hands." Walking away without so much as a goodbye Logan strides towards the Blackbird, "Coming Emma or do you want to watch more of that kids TV show?"
Durban just has to keep working at it, it's slowly turning around. I'm happy to see that the Unseen Shoppe is so busy many of the nights, it could really change gaming in Durban.
"No need for that, I'll land the plane if we can just find a place to put it down," Wolverine reaches for the radio and tunes it to a SHIELD monitored frequency, "Fury this is Logan, I've got a package for you. Over."
"I think if anyone has the facilities to hold him, Fury is the man."
"We could always toss him out of the airplane," Wolverine says with a smile, "What? I was just joking! Maybe it's time I called up that old friend of mine and see if he has a place to stash Crusader for now. Thoughts?"
Bringing the plane back up to a safe altitude Wolverine responds, "Hand him over to the authorities...for what? Just so he can escape their custody again!" "Besides who is to say the Feds wont arrest us on the spot for doing things our own way. I say we deal with this ourselves."
Wolverine climbs to his feet, bleeding from his head and stumbles into the cockpit. "Get out of the way you blue fuzzball! You are going to get us all killed!", he snarls before shoving Hank out the seat and grabbing the controls. Wolverine wrestles with the newly repaired controls attempting to pull the plane out of its nose dive with a combination of strength and skill. This reminds him vaguely of that incident in Korea 1957 when his Mustang was shot down.
Wolverine doesn't even attempt to dodge the blow and instead headbutts the shield directly smashing it back down onto Crusader.
Wolverine gets an instant headache and a gash across the top of his head from the blow but the shield smashes back with force into Crusader.
Wolverine plunges his claws towards Crusader's throat attempting to kill him with one blow.
Wolverine attempts to roll to the side.
Wolverine rolls straight into the framework supporting a chair arresting his motion, the shield then impacts with the back of his head knocking him senseless for a moment. However he recovers quickly bruises already fading into non-existence as he regains his feet. "You are really asking for it now! Lets see how long your religion can protect your ugly hide." Wolverine snarls, before leaping back into the fray, his right hand and claw carving the air as it descends towards Crusader's face.
Wolverine twists to the side attempting to avoid the kick.
Wolverine grunts as the kick connects with him, his adamantium bones are unyielding enough to allow him to grab Crusader's leg in the process. While falling Wolverine swings Crusader by the leg around him attempting to separate sword from knight by bashing him along the airplane wall before ending up on his back in the aisle.
Wolverine raises his arm attempting to parry the sword swinging towards him on his claws.
Too slow, Crusader's sword bites deep into Wolverine's side but the wound heals quickly, skin and muscle knitting up before Crusader's eyes, the lost droplets of blood being pulled back within. "You will pay for that!", Wolverine snarls before renewing his attack, seemingly reckless and uncaring for the federal agents who may be caught in the collateral damage.
Wolverine attempts to catch the brunt of the blow on his adamantium claws.
Wolverine grunts as the blow impacts against his claws, "Doesn't seem they are all that interested in talking Hank!" he says before charging forward directly at Crusader his claws at the ready.
Wolverine attempts to sidestep Beast's arm his berserk rage rising, "Get out of my way Hank or I'll make sure you regret it. That zealot won't listen to a word you say!" Wolverine eyes Crusader over Hank's arm a low growl rising from him his throat.
"Finally, we get to do the straight forward approach." Wolverine heads out the cargo hold, eager for a fight, "Leave Crusader to me, you guys can take care of the small fry."
Wolverine sneaks up to the guards while they are being distracted by Emma. His sense of honor and a fair fight having to take a backseat for the time being, he reaches one hand around each of their heads and attempts to slam them together.
"Finally, I thought they'd never come!" Logan replies with a feral grin. He then stands to the side of the cargo hold door attempting to remain out of sight from anyone who opens the door, his claws extended and ready to slash any of Crusader's goons, "Let's gatecrash this party shall we?"
Wolverine helps Emma across the last section of the bridge, "Your late, Crusader's goons already managed to pacify the Fed's. I was hoping they would put up more of a fight." He then unhooks the restrainers attached to him and moves quickly to the entrance of the cargo hold, "Time to start our own little inflight emergency." His claws slide out with a metallic scream.
I love this little touch... Claws make overwriting security controls far easier
"Seems Crusader has started converting the locals, I hope your ready Emma." Wolverine grits his teeth, takes a strong hold on the cargo retaining strap, and attempts to open the hatch from the controls.
Wolverine waits until he hears the sound of battle starting above, he hopes that Crusader's bible bashers will make enough noise to cover his movements as he climbs out of the crate he's hiding in. Once he's out of the crate, he fastens a cargo restraining strap to his belt and moves silently towards the cargo hatch controls while looking about the cargo hold for any observers.
Total: 16, Effect Die: d10 "Emma, I'm moving towards the cargo hatch and am preparing to open it. Wolverine thinks, "I hope she can pick my thoughts up...damn this place smells like the inside of a nun's habit!"
"I just happen to have an old friend who can maybe help us out on the sneaking portion. Rat-face Robbie, a small time smuggler who has contacts across most the major airports. I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him, but he owes me a favour for not clawing his face off the last time I ran into him. He should be able to get one of us onboard as some contraband cargo."
"Why not? It's worked before." Wolverine turns to Beast, "Your supposed to be the intelligent one, why don't you whip up something that will help us out. Also since Emma doesn't think I can pull off being one of Crusader's church boys with any conviction, how about I just sneak aboard the Fed plane in a crate while you shadow it in the Black Bird. When the hijacking goes down I will cut my away out of the crate, open the cargo door of the plane, and you guys can jump out of the Black Bird while I catch?"
Logan glares at Emma, "I was just trying to ease the fuzzball's nervous nature, that's all. He gets skittish if we don't plan every step." Wolverine gives a wicked smile as his adamantine claws slide slowly out with a rasping noise, "I for one prefer the straight forward approach."
"Maybe we could use a man on the inside, probably me. Sorry Hank but you don't exactly blend in. The real question is do we get in on this with Crusader, or the Feds?"
"Who knows where he stands on it, but one thing I do know is if we let him jack a Federal Treasury plane its going to make things a whole lot more difficult around here for us." Logan taps his knuckles that house his adamantine claws, "I for one don't care for giving the government any control over me seeing as they were responsible for more then enough trouble in my life. Stopping Crusader will prevent them using the theft as leverage over us.
Also since I forgot to post the milestone I'll be using, I'm using ...and what I do isn't very nice.
Ok I'm interested in playing the cliche but not to be missed Wolverine!
Congratulations, I look forward to seeing what you have planned for Durban. Remember to send me an email or something if anything gets planned!
If canon says the Asmodean church is the big respected church in the area, then I think it was the right decision to try get players to work for them. Nothing stopping the spokesperson for the church being very charming and using the "think of the poor orphans" line to get the players hooked. Also supporting this is that in character knowledge will acknowledge that the Asmodeans aren't all that bad (in the loosest sense of the word). They want to live in a lawful society just like everyone else even if they have their own selfish reasons. I think even a zealous paladin can lean towards helping the orphans BEFORE taking on the church which is state sponsored and rightfully there.
Tengus are cool and the fluff on this one fits right in with Japanese legends of the Tengu. Particularily the older legends before the beak was replaced with the nose. Just a thought to those who don't like the fact that this specific to Tengus only. What's stopping any other race being trained by the Tengu and adapting a gauntlet into a beak like weapon? I think this archetype shows vision and creativity beyond just adapting something already seen before into an archetype structure. Hope you make it to the next round Jerall. |