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Six raises an eyebrow at Hellion. "Fair enough. If Fortune could at least try her hand at those wounds once, maybe kickstart your own healing a bit. Otherwise, we're going in a bit busted up." He pauses. "Well, most of us." Six has no wounds, scars or even so much as a blemish on him. "I'll stay with Big Dog. He and I are going to have a nice chat about etiquette when meeting new people."
Six nods, listening to his companions. "Hmm.. You may be right. Some of us don't heal as quickly as others. We have a couple of hours for everyone to rest and try to patch up where we can. Let's get to that."
Six thinks for a moment. "I can walk in with this guy," he thumbs towards Big Dog. "Hellion, maybe back me up, since you know these folks. The rest, we need to cover the roof exit, front and back doors. Three positions, plus an over watch in case Merchant has friends watching, which he no doubt will. Ideas?"
"Alright, 'Big Dog', you're going to tell us about this place we're going so we can make a plan. If you want to keep your head where it is, I suggest you tell the truth." Six looks at the others. "I want to know the layout so we can have some of us in position just in case this Merchant has friends around. Plus, if we're going to take him down, we'll need to cover his escape routes."
Six looks to the rest of the team. "We got a couple of hours to get ready for this meet. Hellion, I'm gonna leave this guy's fate up to you, but it's probably best if we bring him with. Collateral and all." He then takes Big Dog's phone and shoves him towards Hellion. "I'm thinkin' we take him, make like his muscle and then see what this Merchant is all about."
”I’mma be nice and let you go. You’re gonna make that phone call. Then we’ll talk about what happens after that. Do something insanely stupid and Hellion there will finish what she started. Got it?” Six waits for a confirming word or gesture from him before letting him go.
"Names, genius. We need his name and where to find him." Six keeps the pressure up.
Six keeps his hold on the boss. "Best start talking real nice, or she's gonna keep doing that, over and over until you do. Where did you get the toys?"
Seeing only a couple of gangers left, along with their leader, Six questions whether killing them was the right idea. Dead men don't talk and they needed to know where they were getting their gear from. He rushes over to the leader and puts him in a full nelson so Hellion can knock him out. "Let's take him back so we can get some answers."
I ran into the same problem with Six. The Martial Artist Edge specifically calls out fists and feet becoming natural weapons, thus it can only be used for unarmed attacked even though you are considered armed. Martial Warrior is an extrapolation of Martial Artist, so I would presume the same rule applies. That's why I added Power Attack so he could do more damage with his stick.
Trying again, Six comes back with a reverse swing for the Ganger's head.
Six brings his staff up and over his head and then brings it down hard on the ganger in front of him. Unfortunately, the ganger is too fast for him and steps out of the way.
Six is done playing games with low level gangers, being bred to fight other supers. He powers up his fist and lets loose, but the V'Sori gear the ganger has seems to be helping him. Six had to get rid of it somehow.
Six looks down at the blade that goes across his armor as if it were a gnat. ”You will have to try harder than that.” He then brings his pain staff down hard across the ganger’s hands. Unfortunately the ganger is tougher than he looks, so Six also adds a kick to the knees, but the bad guy’s defenses are better than his offense.
The trait roll can ace, which is to help beat the opponent's parry, especially if it is high and you can get extra damage if you specifically attack his hand (called shot -4). However, if you only target the gauntlet, then you are correct, no Ace bonus damage. I once had a
”Oh, so we’re doing weapons now?”, Six says as he draws his own Power Staff. ”Let’s see if you’re as familiar with those as I am.”
He swings the weapon in an arc to show his prowess more than actually hitting him.
Six recovers from his flying kick and then buffalo punches the ganger.
"Fair enough, we'll both smash 'em." Six races ahead towards the nearest bad guy and leaps into him with a flying side kick.
Six grins as the goons appear and start firing at him. ”Hellion, I’m the shield, you’re the spear. I block them, you shoot them. ANGEL, can you be on clean up duty?” Six will place himself in a position to keep Hellion from being shot at, but where she can shoot from behind him.
Six walks through the door confidently, waiting for some goon to try something.
Six lets Zeke go as he goes to sleep. He helps Hellion ties Zeke up and collects Zeke's weapon. "There's got to be something here. Let's go have a look-see and find out what we turn up. " Six then starts walking into the building.
Six continues to hold onto Zeke, attempting to put him in a sleeper hold.
Seeing as how everyone else is ganging up on Zeke, Six moves around and puts his arms under Zeke’s and wraps his hands around Zeke’s head, full Nelson style. ”We are not used to taking no for an answer, give up or they keep punching you until I get tired.”
"Really?", VeeSix says, noticing Zeke's use of an energy pistol. "I'm gonna have to say no to that." Six then grabs for the gun, to crush it in his hands.
d10 Strength d4 Brawler2d6 Power Punch (melee attack power, 4 pts)
The last d6 was from a possible raise on the hit. I'll try to remember to do that separately next time. The d10+d4+2d6 is VeeSix's power punch attack, though I seem to have forgotten to add in the d4 for that.
Six lays into the gangers with fists, feet, and whatever else he can hit them with.
My DTRPG copy usually gets updated for free, but I will take a look later on.
VeeSix, upon hearing what he thinks is the signal, runs towards the other guard, right through 'Hank' and jumps into a superman punch.
Six is waiting on the next block, itching to knock a few gangers around.
VeeSix approves this message.
Six nods in agreement with Hellion. Exactly. They follow the law of the jungle, if we’re going to get through to them, we need to follow it too.” He then thinks for a moment. ”We’ll try not to kill them. So far as we know, they haven’t killed any innocents. No need to mess up our good name by becoming worse than them.”
Much as we might forget, Hellion knows their type and they don’t usually listen to pretty words. Their language is violence and their response, when they have nothing else to punch, is to punch the innocent. That, we cannot allow to happen. So we give them something to punch at. We just happen to be able to hit right back.” Six emphasizes this with fist to his opposite palm.
Six notices Fortune looking at him and gives her a ‘what?’ Look. ”As much as I like Hellion’s idea of just going out there and doing our thing, Fortune is right.” He sighs, pausing for a moment before continuing. ”My face on the Internet is the last thing we need. It would bring a lot of unwanted attention breathing down our necks and I don’t mean rival gangs.” He pats the V’Sori armor he wears absently.
Six ponders their situation. ”We don’t really have anything from King Something Something and we’ve stirred up some trouble and the population is suffering for it. I say we go streetside and start busting some heads until we get to whoever is leading these cheap shots and deal with it.
”Either way,” Six interjects. ”ANGEL has it right. We need to go and make sure more folk aren’t being punished for what we did.”
”So, in other words, we should go on patrol again, making sure they behave themselves?” Six says to Fortune, loud enough that others can hear. ”I’m all for it, when do we leave?”
Six looks up at Sentry as he walks. ”Dolphins, penguins.. definitely an Atlantean thing.”, he mutters, more to himself than anyone in particular. He then stands up from admiring another piece of V’Sori hardware from his collection, attempting to see if it will work on his armor. He is almost as tall as he is wide. He is the physical embodiment of health and looks as if he can tear the doors off an armored car. He holds out a hand to Sentry. ”VeeSix, or just Six to most everyone. Welcome to the icehouse, Penguin.”
”So, boss, does that mean you have something in mind for us to do that will require his particular set of skills?” Six goes about cleaning his gear and making sure his room is as spartan as it can be. To know one in particular, he says, ”I wonder if we should keep the pressure up on Hellion’s old gang. If they get a chance to regroup, it could be harder on us to deal with them in the future.”
Six smiles as he gets into the van last and hears Fortune’s explanation of her reading. ”I do not think the world is ready for us yet, but I like where you are at.”
”You’re right.” Six says as he finishes tying up the last of the gangers. ”The last thing we need is having to explain how we managed to take them all down so quickly.” He then taps the mic on his earpiece and contacts Meros. ”We’re done here boss, we need the locals to come pick up the trash, if you would be so kind as to let them know.” He then takes over watch as until the last of his team gets into the van.
Seeing that the only one still standing is one of the thugs, he grimaces and picks up speed as he runs towards the thug, grabs him by the shoulders and says, ’I see we have one that just won’t give up. Teach him his lesson, Angel.”
I’ll keep Six the same then and as he gets stronger, perhaps his regeneration will improve over time.
Six was built to take damage from superpowers and heavy weapons, thus his high Toughness and Regeneration, which incidentally, is already at once per hour. I’d be more than happy to lower the Toughness to increase his Regeneration to much faster if needed to balance the combats. My ultimate goal is for him to be someone that keeps coming back, no matter what they dish at him. He may not be able to do too much damage, but he can take it. Remember the V’Sori wanted something that the supervillains couldn’t kill.
Hearing Hellion’s call to arms, Vee Six nearly knocks Fortune over rushing into battle. Quickly surveying the battlefield, he sees Hellion already fighting the leader. He would liked that opportunity, but he knows well enough to not get into the middle of a duel. Instead he chooses the next largest thug and with a glare of menace, runs right towards him, staff powering up. Instead of hitting him with it, Six knows they want to keep a few of them alive, so he leaps up and plants a foot directly into the man’s chest.
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