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Ted is frustrated with how well protected these systems are to his hacking attempts. He will all in his reinforcements of his reprogrammed Sentinels and tell them to aid the companions in fighting the Hydra-Skull.

I'm going to avoid rolling for the time being and instead will look for other ways to be useful. In this case, commanding the Sentinels already reprogrammed to help us fight.

OR

Ted could have a flash of insight because he's smart like that and realize that since Jason just mentioned Tyche he was talking about luck and that thought could spark him to think that maybe this god of gods could grant boons to people like gods did in the old days and maybe Jason could bestow some kind of edge on him to help get the job done.

Just a thought ...

"A god is meausured by his will my brother, not his power. You are twice the god I am, if not more. Have I gathered a couple extra parlour tricks? To be sure. The Touch of Tyche as it were. You are another thing entirely; you are in the moment to answer prayers. You inspire me."

Jason seems to smile at himself ...

"You're also paying much more attention than I. More of a warrior too it seems. Give me a problem to fix brother, this is tedious. I take it this Skull isn't really a Net ..."

GM SuperTumbler wrote:

Maggie Mui wrote:

PS: ST I'm not sure what you want from Maggie in response to the comment of not mentioning all the people who can alter the timestream. She's obviously implying the people present can do so, and if Skullnet can't read between the lines, then she's not going to spell it out. I think we can get something suitably epic happening regardless.

I misread your intent. I thought you were thinking of using Maggie's knowledge of the fiction to find another Marvel character who could use time travel to circumvent your need for Skull-Net's time device. And threatening Skull-Net with that.

That is a super cool idea, but not what I was thinking. First, I figured we were pretty much this story's Exiles, no need to bring in another set. I suppose if all else fails she could call on the Watcher and hope for the best, but if we're gonna need a deus ex machina I'd rather it be from Jason and Herakles. :)

The Deus ex Machina, as requested. I think my proposal is steeped in as much classic mythology tropeyness as we need. Let's see!

GM SuperTumbler wrote:

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.

I will do a little reading right now ... and put something together.
Let me just read Herk's return post.

If you give me a minute BD, I'll go read it and relate Jason's to it

I probably need to night to catch up, but I am open to hearing thoughts on what Jason can do (I feel like these fugues can be temporally sideshifted practice time where he is coping with his new level of divinity)

Now could be a really good time for the last of the gods to show back up?
Sorry to have been away, also sorry to no longer be working, but at least I can game more ;)

When ST feels better let's discuss

OMG congratulations!!!

OMG I am caught up ...

Is the thing next to Maggie one of her origami things? The dogs are at the end of the hall past that? The post above reads as though the sabotage is almost complete, but I'd like to confirm; how many more rounds does Jason need to pour electricity into to infrastructure until he can turn around and fry the dogs?

"Friend Maggie, I think you can help me with this communication array thing. My instincts says that you could fold up and animate some watchdogs for us; want to teleport in there with me?"

Jason smiles at his version of genius

"I'm not sure that every storm needs to be a hurricane. I beleive that we can snap our way in there, and I can gently bleed lightning into the system until it frys itself. No flashy bolts, no crack zapple pop, no booming roar of thunder; just me focused on missing my father and passing his power into a bunch of machines that could never match my rage ... or his for that matter."

He chuckles, in itself odd but cute

"Afterwards, coffee ... even if we need to go to Colombia to procure it!

Cap puts a finger to his ear, "Jason, if you really are a god, we could use a miracle about now."

"How's that Mister America? Sir. What do you need? Not sure about miracles, but my family was VERY capable. If nothing else, I can be 'unexpected'"

Jason smiles; it's a wistful smile, almost anyone might guess he's thinking of Olympus.

"Call it Cap, I'll try anything."

If Jason is getting up to shenanigans with the communications array, let me know what you are doing.

Sorry, was pretty sure I read not to do anything. I can wait.

I thought Herk was off-scene

"What a great plan it is too, other than the fact that Sentry is wasted going into the communications array given that he can't teleport, and I could. Seems like Sentry on overwatch, and me delivering either a scrambler, some lightning, or both into that room while he is covering it from a distance at which he could monitor more action would be ideal. If we can make the payload stealthy enough, I can activate it as I teleport out of there and no one will know why their comms failed until we've eliminiated the rest of the opposition. WITHOUT taking out that room which could ppossibly risk the whole carrier."

Jason smiles.

"Just a thought really. I've had several, thoughts that is, while I was away with Herk. Sorry about that ..."

The wizened figure speaks, "Brother! I suppose that in full truth I should say 'half brother.' I think that I don't remember meeting you, but I can smell in your blood that you are a son of Zeus. There is nothing here for you. The other gods are gone. They did not survive the bomb. As the god of war, I had some small advantage there. But there is no power to be gained here by the god of war. There is no chaos, no anger, no rage, in the movements of the machines. And the humans have no respect for Ares. No prayers, no sacrifices are given."

"The gods had no respect for you either, and with good cause it seems: you cannot even blame humanity for your hubris and idiocy can you? Can you imagine the world if you had simply set aside all of your insipid rage & anger and celebrated the art of wafare instead of the act? You and our sister Athena would have ruled the cosmos!"

The godling seems almost to sneer ...

"and yet, here you sit, still a moron. No, there is nothing here for me, I have everything already. You though, have next to nothing, so get to work. You could claim much of what I have, and while I inherited by right, the claim could still be yours; who would oppose you? I, with all certainty, would not. I will leave this wretched earth as soon as my teammates say we are done here."

Now the young heir seems to smile, and having recently wrapped himself in the Power of Hermes, there is an air of mischief to the smile.

"Well ... I'll leave after you serve my needs I mean. I am the lord of the gods here too now; you are naught compared to what our father gave me and you will service me as I command. We will go now to treat with our brother "from another multiversal mother" --- and you will bequeath the divinity of this realm's Herekles to my compatriot."

"Given that you are relativly powerless, I will also help you. I will help you go whereever thou wouldst AND will pray with you for anything you might want to claim after Herk is restored. The sky here has no ruler, it could be yours. The sea here has no god, it could be yours. How very very many must be clamoring in Hades, they could be yours as well. Think on this as we travel ..."

Will do - please please feel free to prompt me on Discord if I've been away from Paizo too long.

I still have a lot of reading to do to catch up, but I also have all of today to do that. Please let me know if there is a post that would help prior to that happening though. I am here.

ST - Aye unifying them would make sense - I may indulge with a little build building (if that makes sense) ahead of then...

Harkening back to some PM discussion we had about Herak's mythical weaponry and items - am thinking Herak (in his world) post WW2 laid down his weapons in pursuit of post-war adventure and affairs of the heart.

Envisaged him burying said cache somewhere with personal significance to him... The Temple of Heracles, Agrigento perhaps?

He would surmise (eventually) that perhaps in this war torn reality world, such an equivalent cache may exist and remains undiscovered? As such he'd entreat Sentry to fly him there to in the hope of recovering the items and adding some extra sauce to him as a PC.

Could also ask your 'brother' Jason to fly you there ;)

'cause our brother might even be able to draw the cache across the Multiverse into the spot you think it might be, using both the spot and your divinity as realativity anchors

Just a thought ...

Jason will exit his fugue-state shortly; unifying the encounter makes sense to me.

The 113 Gameplay posts may take me a moment (or two) to digest, but that will happen this weekend :)

I am back, ready and willing to be impulsive and make tons of mistakes

Jason is def not a mutant (in his universe anyway), but at least part of the implicit coolness of this campaign is the idea that somewhere, maybe that's a thing. Maybe on Earth-39879 the gods were the first mutants, maybe the X-Gene is a genetic signifier for a decendant of the gods.

Maybe there could be a G-Gene that everyone god-like has; and maybe the G-Gene is a cross-multiversal constant too, that Jason and Herk and all the gods we encounter will all have, threading one facet of all worlds to each other. Maybe alien gods have it too.

I will catch up SOON; sliced cabbage is intriguing!

Maggie comments like a walking encyclopedia. "Themyscira was the capital of ancient Scythia on the Black Sea. Scythia was a matriarchal society, so scholars have speculated it was the source of the Ancient Greek myths about the Amazons."

She pauses a moment and adds, "That's the historical Themyscira I know of. In the 1980s, comic writer and artist George Perez decided to rename the island home of the superhero Wonder Woman to that historic name. The original creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, just called it 'Paradise Island.'"

"and the Universe seems to have conspired to make all of that true in one place or the other. Masterful."

"Zeus was extraordinary at conjuring to be honest, while I was only beginning to learn. That said, the easiest thing to conjure is a sacrifice, given that it is already meant for the gods to enjoy. Ic oud probably find us some beef in fairly short order if I tried."

Doc moves with you into the kitchen. His eyes rove over everything, taking it all in. "This is very interesting. This sort of installation also exists on my Earth. But we haven't tipped the scales into nuclear holocaust, yet. But it could still happen. Reagan is pretty hawkish, and who knows what the Soviets will do. Hey, everyone, what year is it where you come from?"

Turning from Maggie to the Doctor, Jason's look is quizical. "I will be honest with you, I am not sure. This wasn't something I talked about with my sisters when I visited them. Olympus didn't really have the same structure of time that the Universe has, and Themyscirans measure time, but it doesn't really impact them quite the same way. I do remember my sisters saying something like 21st Century, and during my last visit they were helping with a worldwide disease outbreak ... thankfully my sisters & I did not have to wear masks."

Seeing Beetle is rightly engaged in saving the world and not wasting his time on her, Maggie puts her watch back on and follows Giselle's directions to the kitchen. She looks at Jason with an inquisitive look. "Want to help with the morale again?"

"I would LOVE that! What do you have in mind!? I think maybe I needed someone more creative to inspire me ..."

Sorry for the delay. I have a lot of work to catch up on. Will post tomorrow.

I too apologize for being away, also work related ... but it is also the first I have been working in almost a year and a half. I'm here though, I promise, and I have tomorrow off :)

(so cool to even type that)

Maggie walks through, following their new allies(?). She remains silent, taking in the details of everything they pass through, creating a mental map of the area in her mind.

She has nothing to say for now, but just posting that I am here. Hope we see our other comrades soon.

"Flying, to be honest, is one of the things I do best, has been since I was a child. I will fly escort with Sentry."

Happy also to do some Zeusing when the time comes; tbh Jason's main thing is pressing the boundaries of his powers. He knows lightning & thunder pretty well, he needs to practice his air & rain schtick, and as much as he loved summer camp (Camp Half-Blood?), he isn't good at the pure god magic yet (he could NOT make an island invisible, yet).

He is also very confused about knowing that he has now (very recently) inherited ALL the god's powers. He spent his life so far knowing of and proud of being Heir Apparent to Zeus: he had never imagined becoming Heir to Olympus.

And while not quite born yesterday like Sentry, he has a similar naivite about "man's world" like his sister, so he will take a LOT at face value, especially heroic seeming NPCs (and the PCs for that matter).

Now he just needs to align with Herk, who he def has never experienced like this :)

I love this game too.

Fingers very crossed

Need to go to hospital. Mom not feeling well. Post tomorrow.

Very best wishes and take care, we'll be here :)

Jason, for his part, revels in the nostalgia; he had done simple tasks like these in his childhood, with his father, on Olympus. They didn't have a lot of time together, and mostly he was relegated to tutors, but he saw his father often enough to see Zeus' pride in him.

Coffee though, wasn't made on Olympus, well, it wasn't made by the gods. There were many servants, and he never wanted for anything, other than independence: now though, he was able to stand on his own ... and help make coffee.

Maggie seemed very skilled at this, and she also shared the groceries she'd arrived with. He put together a cup of coffee, just like she had. It was quite a moment for him.

Agreed, Jason, on the smaller effects. A lot of that would just be a 1 point feature on a power. With your Variable, that is easy enough to emulate. I will probably get persnickety if you try to get outside of your ancient Greek branding. For example, creating wine is fine as it is quintessentially Greek. Creating a circuit board I might balk at.

This makes total sense and will actually facilitate teamwork I think: creating lighting is one thing, Jason couldn't even imagine creating A/C current though. But if Beetle created a capacitor, Jason could probably get it charged up. When the time comes ...

To Jason, she says quietly, matter-of-factly: "It would be safer if you heated a container of water than tried to power a machine."

As Sentry zips away and comes back the first time: "Wait. Didn't you say there were people beneath the cafe? Besides the three we met?"

"You are good at this; my sister took me for soemthing called a "pour-over" once, it was wonderful. All they seemed to do was pour hot water over the mashed coffee beans, so simple and yet so good. I think you are completely correct."

Jason stops to think for just a moment

"Is it not also possible that the people in the basement here have another way to travel to the people we wish to reach? Maybe there is a tunnel?"

Looking around the cafe area, Jason spies a carafe that probably would have been used for hot water. Thankfully, the simple magics were, in fact, simple. He thought of the extended pantheon; there really was a god for everything. This time, his eyes only seemed to glow, no sparks, and the carafe became spottlessly clean; forthwith it also began to fill with hot water.

I felt that for smaller effects, like Presitigation in PF, we might not need to roll anything. Conjuring the wine will be quite a different matter.

Herakles listens intently to the collective back and forth, before adding his own words with booming voice:

"What is wrong?! Verily the Prince of Power is here, in this strange place, when he should be... elsewhere!"

The big man frowns, surveying his new companions with interest;

"Kafe? Surely we should toast our victory and imbibe something stronger from the cellar of Dionysus perhaps!? Can thee conjure οἶνος Jason? Perhaps an ancient vintage! Ha!"

"My instincts say I could power a coffee maker, and I'm more than willing to try to conjure wine, our best thought though, is to make short work of this 80 miles we need to travel. Any thoughts?"

As the dust settles and Maggie comes back into the bookstore, Dr. Wan stands up behind the coffee counter. "Good, everyone is in one piece. And look, I found some beans! So, any idea what is wrong here? What is the problem with this reality? What should we be fixing?"

While keeping tabs on the conversation of Blue Beetle, the Sentry walks toward the bookstore after Dr. Wan started questioning. When the Sentry arrives within easy speaking distance between Dr. Wan and Maggie, he genuinely asks, "What do you mean what is wrong here? How do you fix a problem with a reality?"

"Before we get to that, and just to level set our expectations ... are you indicating that we might be able to make coffee while we figure this out? 'Cause I can be totally honest here: I do NOT have all of the powers I inherited figured out, but I could probably conjure some water or something.

The godling smiles; an 'a ha' smile for sure.

"I am willing to bet that the Princess of Parchment here could whip us up a coffee filter too! This reality is starting to shape up!"

"Absolutely we should speak to the good doctor; we were brought here for a reason and don't really need to shop for new causes just yet. Not opposed to it in principle, but let's stick to the script for a minute before the improv starts."

Jason "Rion" Prince wrote:

Turning to Herakles, Jason smiles, "Some of the best decisions in life are the ones we need not make; the opposition is here now. Once upon a time, I did receive a lesson about being patient. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Uncle Hermes ... thinking about it, I'm fairly sure it wasn't Ares either. In any case, shall we?"

Lightning seems to flash in his eyes as he surveys the robots

"Who's first?"

Jason lashes out at the nearest robot, lightning flashing from his eyes

Lightning: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 1310 = 10

The lightning is still sparking in Jason's eyes, but he is clearly looking inward; his father could draw a great deal more lightning down from the sky, and it was time to give that a try. He raised his hands to the heavans ... and summoned bolt after bolt to hit the remaining cluster of robots.

Lightning(AoE)(Selective): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 1510 = 10

ah ... the general point of "if everyone I've met in the past 3 minutes is an 'alt', how weird will the alt-Cap and alt-BW really seem?" makes a LOT of sense to me.

This "Cap" was perhaps not as invincible as he seemed. This needed to end. Frowning, Maggie increased her concentration, pulling in the paper wall as well as all that was scattered everywhere. The tornado of paper again swirled together and this time formed a massive snake, which tore through the ground, tunneled beneath the parking lot, and then burst out of the ground, jaws wide as it attempted to "swallow" the remaining robots.

Spending Extra Effort to add Area Effect, cylinder, to the Snake's Swallow Power. It is a grab-based effect. Any it hits it needs to resist its rank 6 effect (or if I can use Strength here, Str 8). Failure degrees are Hindered, Immobile, Paralyzed.

[dice=Attack Robot 1]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 2]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 3]1d20+6
[dice=Attack Robot 4]1d20+6

The black circles on the map are the holes in the ground created by the snake burrowing

BTW, all I am able to understand from "something is off" is "you are in an alternate universe." Which Maggie is going to assume anyway--she doesn't have reason to think things are exactly like the books even if characters are obviously familiar. The fact that it is "not quite Cap" also goes with the fact that Maggie has teamed up with "not quite Superman" and "not Hercules but Herakles" and a Jason who is son of Zeus rather than Aeson. If you are trying to hint at something else, it is not apparent to me.

def do NOT remember saying that; he is Jason Prince, Wonder Woman's twin brother. Fraternal twins actually, as in, they have the same parents; Zeus & Hippolyta. Jason was born second. Hippolyta actually named him in remembrance of the other one you referred to.

Turning to Herakles, Jason smiles, "Some of the best decisions in life are the ones we need not make; the opposition is here now. Once upon a time, I did receive a lesson about being patient. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Uncle Hermes ... thinking about it, I'm fairly sure it wasn't Ares either. In any case, shall we?"

Lightning seems to flash in his eyes as he surveys the robots

"Who's first?"

Jason lashes out at the nearest robot, lightning flashing from his eyes

Lightning: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 1910 = 10

ah, let me catch up with what is posted.
Jason was getting ready to lightning some robots.

Turning to Herakles, Jason smiles, "Some of the best decisions in life are the ones we need not make; the opposition is here now. Once upon a time, I did receive a lesson about being patient. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Uncle Hermes ... thinking about it, I'm fairly sure it wasn't Ares either. In any case, shall we?"

Lightning seems to flash in his eyes as he surveys the robots

"Who's first?"

"It is said that my mother knew him, that she admired the Jason of old. I only know the legends, but they are a lot to live up to. Yet that is true of your own legends it would seem ..."

The young man smiles

"I say yes, let us fly up to it, lead it off, enter it from above, and destroy it. It need never threaten these people in any way."

ST's idea are amazing in general ;)

Go take out that HK - leave us Olympians holding the fort (and likely scrapping over who Daddy Zeus loved more lol)

not sure it's a fair contest given that no one has written entertainment about Jason going nuts and killing his family, but hey, you guys could always hunt down Euripides to try to reclaim a little of Herk's honour ;)

Maybe Diana was right, maybe I do need therapy. Greek like that was only spoken on Olympus, and arriving here straight out of some wierd vortex, it has got to be a hallucination.

"Εἴ τις ἔτι πολὺν ἀρχαῖον ἑλληνικὸν ἀκούω, ἀρχὴν ἔχω ἀνηρᾷν τὴν γονέων μου ἀναζήτησιν ...

That day would not be today it seemed. Today his plans had changed, and thankfully, magic allowed him to have changed his clothes, well, to have clothes on at all. He had been sleeping. He liked sleeping. He did not like vortexes. Now, he also found himself even less fond of vortexes which disrupted his sleeping. There wasn't much respite left besides sleeping, and he wasn't quite ready to run with Diana's suggestion.

Therapy though, might possibly be better than here. Here looked pretty bleak. His silent prayer to his great-aunt Theia allowed him to see most of what was seeable: there were people in the distance, there were people in a basement, there were machines in the sky, and there was a guy in front of him who looked like he had a key of some sort. That and a much much bigger guy who looked a LOT like his older brother ...




"Hi. I'm Jason. Jason Prince. I was sleeping. I got dressed just in case; if you'd seen me naked, you might have turned to stone."
The young man seemed to smile at his joke.
"Hehehehehe, Olympian humour, sorry. One of my brothers killed Medusa, you're safe. For now. Was there an invitation that I missed or was I truly drawn here against my will?"

That said, I have a serious question: in this campaign, I'm going to drop your characters into different universes. Some will be straight up versions of previously existing universes. Some will be strange combinations of different realities.

How is it most fun to figure out where you are and what is going on? Maggie has a useful ability to unspool some of the mysteries by knowing who literary (and comic book) characters are. So how much do you want me to obscure things and make hints until someone posts the correct answer, and how much should I tell you outright?

I love this; happy to have Jason use prayer for this too.

Jason's father answers his prayers, and Jason knows this. I mean KNOWS this. He knows that he has prayed, he knows that his prayer is like a transmission, he knows when/if his prayer makes it to Olympus, and he knows the process (he was in training with his father during a short period of every summer: he knows when a prayer is ignored).

I will work with ST to build this. Doesn't mean that Jason has a cell phone that can reach Olympus, but it would mean that he can "take the temperature" of the Olympians' status in any given universe.

Especially because he knows so very well the emptiness that comes with their deaths in his own universe.

I will get a post up today/tonight also; I too had a real life intrusion AND a reconfiguration incident. Both are resolved though :)