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Hellion watches as the start of the motion begins, and flicks the remainer of the cigarette towards Herc and his goons. "Show em the goods Six!" Hellion spring into action as she draws her Unholy blade coding the distance between her and Hercules in a blink raising the flat of the blade and smacking him with it.
Sorry folks away from my pc(and by proxy my copy of the book to look at combat rules) for the weekend. Have some stuff I need to deal with up away from my residence. Gonna try to download the pdf to my phone, but no guarentees I'll get around to it(and read the rules well enough to act) till Sunday when I get back home.
Out of the 5 PC's, anyone who's in a position to be looking at the bad guys (probably not whoever's driving; like VeeSix and Fortune in the back of the van, looking out; did Hellion just turn her back on the guys (what does "walking offshoot" mean)?, etc. make a Notice-4 roll please...
"Well lets see." She points with her smoke. "You thought it was worth bringing four kitted out men including yourself that is. So that tells me it's worth twenty-grand at the very least. So cut me thirty. Then I give you the goods. I pack up shop, get off this gods forsaken island for good, and we never have to speak again." Hellion narrows her eyes, "Or, we settle this like they did before the Fish cracked down. Seems I remember a lot of blood and wasted potential back then though, and alot more on my blade than your hands too." Punctuating the end of the offer with one last exaggerated drag she finishes off walking offshoot of her own van. "Choice is yours Hercules. Deal in money or deal in blood?"
"Oh you know, arms from our recently evicted 'guests'. You wanna see you better tell your boys and girls to put their toys back down though." She tuts and takes another drag. "I expected even the gang to remain civil with these kinds of deals."
Hellion shrugs "Suit yourself." Removing a smoke and lighting one for herself to take a drag while Hercules has his moment of power and offers his proposal. She offers a smile, "Good to see you managed to find your cajones while I was off getting capped by the Vee's." Pointing vaguely at the group with two fingers she adds, "You ever tell the gang that it was your bungling that caused that to happen? Talk about failing upwards since you got promoted. You plan on letting these fine gentlemen down the same way you let me down there Herc?" Taking another long drag to let that sink in she flicked the ashes from the end of the cig. "The way I see it, I came here to offer you a deal, some of your goods for some of my goods. Cause last I checked, my goods ain't got your names on em and you know how the old saying goes, 'Finders keepers.'"
"So what do you say Herc, we got ourselves something we wanna talk about or are you all just gonna keep waving your fancy flashlights at me? Till I get upset and have to shove em where the lights never been?"
Leering out the window as they pull up, Hellion looks to the others after they park a decent distance away. "Great Herc.. well let's hope things don't go too sideways. Kind of sucks we're just supposed to incapacitate nowdays." She grabs a pack of smokes from the center console and stuffs em into her jacket. "Keep your eyes sharp, You'll know when to act, get em nice and close." With that she kills the engine and opens the door, stepping out and eyeing Herc. "Well, gentlemen. A fine evening to meet with you. Hear one of yours got a little handsy with my informant. But I'm willing to let bygones be bygones, and since your here I suspect you're still open to proposals?" She watches the reactions of those present only taking about half the distance between them up, they'd know some of her powers, but she couldn't deny that it'd be likely that like her, they may have changed since she was in the gang last. If they seem amicable to continuing the deal, she will slowly reach into her coat and pull out the pack of smokes, fetching one out. "Still like the lights Herc?"
I don't think we need to take, all of the goods, just one should be enough to show we aren't messing about. Besides not like we're going to actually give them anything
"Sure thing Angel." Hellion mobes over to show her the address. "It's an old spot we used to use. Didn't want a dock spot cause they'd be able to call the rest of their buddies pretty easy, plus that's their current turf." The location pin looks to be a multistoried parking garage behind an old Starmart that was abandoned long before the V'sori came by even. It's got a few exits so that people could scramble if things went horribly south with the feds, but was cloistered off from the skyscrapers and apartments that it'd be difficult to spy anything happening. "We should head over sooner rather than later." She looks at the wares, "Now it'd be bad business to have all the goods in one spot incase they make to cross us. So we'll store the bulk of em on p4 with one of us watching over.." She catches herself slipping into old ways. "Scratch that no need to hide the goods we're gonna be fighting em nomatter what, Six you and Fortune should stay low in the back of the van and be ready to come out swinging. Rashomon, Angel, and I can do the 'negotiating'. But we shouldn't show our muscle too early." "Sound good?"
I think that's a fair way to handle called vs descriptive hits, sort of what I do in pathfinder/dnd games anyway since called shots are typically either not a thing or not really worth the extra effort.
See fortune didn't need any help at all XD
Once the 'goods' are secured Hellion gives the all clear for Fortune to inform the gang of the meeting spot. "Be safe kiddo, if you aren't back by the end of the night we'll send the Cavalry."
"We'll just 'confiscate' them back either way. Everyone good to go?"
Sorry folks been a busy weekend and rather low on creative juices as of late so been hard to make good meaningful posts all around. With luck I can get my OT done for the week tonorrow and focus on relaxing and getting my thinky bits working again.
Shaking her head at the voice in her head and speaking to seemingly nothing she turns planting her hips to lean on the workbench. "Really, your orders of how to handle the gangs however we see fit so long as we aren't killing anyone? And what if they've got a V'Sori monstrosity chained to the wall and we need actual weapons to kill it? You aren't Dr. Destruction anymore, but you sire kept the adopted absorbtion of everyone elses credit for the work you didn't do." She grumbles and palms both of the things she took from the crate turning them over in her hands. "Some bullshit fishman. Sound like Samuel with your proverbs..." After a few moments she sighed and pushed herself off the table and walked back into the main room with the crates, carelessly tossing the items back in. "New plan, we can get the weapon fitted to the van, but I'm going out for some smokes and recon." With that said she heads back to the garage where everyone can hear her bike fire up and take off.
Zen: She's relenting begrudingly, trying to play into her pride hindrance, lemme know if it's ever too much. Also I found for want of a nail, but i think the point gets across the same
Shaking her head and blows raspberries at Mono's interruption. "Why am I not surprised. We do all the work and you still come and reap all the stuff. It's not like you're paying us, so what makes you think you get to determine how it's all used?" She walks over to the crate and hefts out the machine gun and tosses a pair of the fusion grenades into her pockets as well as a single blaster pistol. Taking them all to the garage she sets the machine gun on the workbench for Rashomon to work on later. "Alright, let's get this bolted on after dialing it down then we can hit the gang house."
Watching Rashomon deconstruct the weapons Kathrine can't help but feel a small twist in her gut. "Yeah probably wouldn't be awful to use em. But best to leave the guns here, I think the base protections would be a good idea once they're downgraded to less than lethal." She rubs her thigh remembering where her own gun used to sit, it was a strangely empty place now, but it was probably for the best. "Had a lot of good times didn't we." Clearing her throat she moved to help Rash, "Not sure about Fin guns myself, but if you just need a second set of eyes and another brain to remember stuff couldn't hurt right? I mean Vsix is probably way better at this stuff though. Better than me."
"There will always be a power vacuum Six." Hellion nods, "It's our job to fill it and show people that the good times are coming back, that we're not gonna be a society ruled by corruptive influences anymore." Stretching and nodding at the crates, "And we start by making waves and growing into those power vacuums to show we're not gonna let any normal gangers get the better of us. So now that we've deprived them of their newest toys let's get in and crack some heads."
"Oh... so none of that then hmm. Well probably best we just make things look fine here and get out then." Hellion says looking to the portal Rashomon made back to base. "Can deal with the fallout at their hub and go from there."
Hellion bites her nail at that plan, "Ah yeah that'd be a good idea. How far out from port are we anyhow? Could probably just..." She pauses as a plan equally brilliant and stupid fills her mind. "Hey Fortune, how good are you at illusions? We could just ship ourselves directly to the problem. With a somewhat empty crate and then bust out and ahh haha we caught you red-handed."
"Doubt they'll keep anything meaningful on an official manifest, but hey worth the shot best to shut it down at the source. Or at least let someone closer know to do so."
Hellion likewise sticks outside to keep watch, but takes a peek inside. "Looks like Fish writing which means we should get rid of this stuff, any chance you could open a portal back to base for me and Six to shove em through?"
Trademark weapon Molecular longsword, which looking at it I think i skimped down to normal longsword for budget reasons and will update my powers sheet accordingly, so not monomolecular my bad it's the AP 4 version page 72 of the SWADE Core. Molecular blade was also in the old supers book, will have to check later if it's in the new one or not. But yeah if the locks dealt with then we crack this bad boy open and see what's inside. And hopefully not ubleash the wrath of Ahankhet Mummified lich lord of the 3rd dynasty on Star City XD.
I just need to know if that's like a viable action, if it needs a roll, Etc.
Like I said Hellion could probably just cut through the chain with her monomolecular sword with no issue or much sound other than chain hitting the ground
Thankfully Hellion doesn't need lights since she's got Infra and lowlight
Hellion sticks to the crates as she searches ubderstanding that people rarely look up, and since she doesn't have to worry about silly things like horizontal surfaces, even then she keeps crouched as she manuvers around the sides of the crates. "Any eyes on the prize? Think between Six and I we can carve into the proverbial can."
Oh yeah we've got nore than 4 but less than 6 people so groups of 2 wont work lol
Heads up I am out of town now, so posts will be a bit sporadic till I get back probably
Hellion drops onto the deck with Rashomon her combat boots barely making a sound, as her supernatural nature muffles the landing. She looks around for any approaching thugs before moving.
"Alright so, time to find our prize groups of two? Probably hidden in plain sight honestly."
The seeing from a roof would mean we'd have to wait days for it to get close enough to defeat the, let's hit it before they get to port point of the operation. But yeah I'd rather we just get on with it cause man this is such a gigantic headache for almost no reason in my opinion.
I wouldn't say the discussion is irrelevant to gameplay since Rashomon and this teleport is sort of our vehicle forward to the boat within a reasonable time frame.
Not really got a horse in this exact race, but I think most of us here are adult enough to not play mean or with foul intent, so getting super nitpicky on rules before anything is even a problem might be a bit much. I also think setting blanket rules on how a power works 'for all people with X power' like all portals are see through takes away something from a player or even yourself as the gm. Like.. let's say we have someone who uses shadow rifts(portals) doesn't make a whole lot of sense that you can peer through what is described as a black void. Or let's say said Shadow wielding villain makes a daring get away and portals away, but we see exactly where they flee to via the portal so Rash just follows and we continue beating their ass ad nauseum until one group fails the roll to follow. I'd like to think we're all adult enough to, just let people describe/use there powers as is. But if something is done in bad faith or in a way that seems counter to the we're the mostly good guys plot like buzz sawing a person in half(which would be an attack power but could still be flavored as a portal ripping at them) then stop and be like hey not cool let's roll that back a bit, which I understand is a bit more difficult on pbp, but seems more intuitive to me than having long pauses for rule discussions every ten posts. And hey if anyone wants to do something really whacky like use a portal as a high pressure water gun or space vacuum to get rid of the ticking time bomb or super duper definitely needs to die villain. Then call it a benny, a stunt(using a power as another power so long as it makes sense), and a roll and call it a day maybe, cause slicing interesting, creative, and unusual uses for powers is also kind of lame.
The last ten(ish) posts have been just trying to move the plot forward countered by 'tire spinning in the mud' rule discussion about powers. If we wanna really bare bones it, 'they work like the book says and for any other edge cases consult the gm and group'. Sorry if this comes off as rude, I just wanna do the thing instead of talking about how to do the thing.
Oh super early heads up. I'm gonna be out of state from the 31st to the 4th or 5th and won't have much time to post. Maybe once or twice a day if even that.
Hellion doesn't have much to do in terms of getting ready and no stranger to getting ready to go into a serious high fatigue situation she does her best to rest up and get a decent meal in a few hours before they plan on moving out.
So it's looking like Rash gets us there Fortune gets us out?
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