I throw Supergirl at the monicaled guy hopeing she is quick on the uptake and pops him one; and eldritch blast the flyer. I am pretty strong and think she is invulnerable; so I throw her really hard hoping to get surprise with such an unexpected action.
"try not to take his head off; we might want to talk to him about whats here and what isnt"
I throw Supergirl at the monicaled guy hopeing she is quick on the uptake and pops him one; and eldritch blast the flyer. I am pretty strong and think she is invulnerable; so I throw her really hard hoping to get surprise with such an unexpected action.
"try not to take his head off; we might want to talk to him about whats here and what isnt"
[woot; finally using a better stat :) ]
roll 60; got a yellow.
"Holy...!" shrieks the flyer as Maelidek throws Supergirl at Count Vertigo.
Its enough to make the Count nervous enough to duck but he had already activated his monocol and that is enough to block the thrown missile admittedly only for about a second or two before she smashes through the protective shield and nearly takes Count Vertigo's head off as the android topples over and the fall completely destroys the head.
The flyer's response is to take off in fright!
I take off flying after him; will try to shoot him down with my eldritch blast
"SG, this guy may have some answers; sheesh ;if Pong was here he might get something out of that robot"
Is their sufficient room for me to fly either above or below my comrade? If so, once I'm just as far as he is (or slightly further) I shall use my superbreath to inhale and attempt to draw him towards us, thus preventing him from fleeing. In doing so, I hold out my hands to catch the guy. If I'm unable to do this let me know.
Firefly takes off and Maelidek is in hot pursuit with Supergirl considering her options.
The headless android twitches beside her even as its head bobbles around a few feet away from the body.
"Stop and surrender; or believe me; you will wish you had villian, if there is enough of you left to wish for anything. Surrender and you will suffer no lasting harm"
"Stop and surrender; or believe me; you will wish you had villian, if there is enough of you left to wish for anything. Surrender and you will suffer no lasting harm"
Trying to turn far too quickly he bashes into several walls making the turn but hardly with any kind of grace as he comes to a stop as his jump pack splutters and finally gives up the ghost leaving him to slide down the revealed corridor ending next to a door.
"Ow! Okay, okay, why did you do that to the Count, I know he's just an android but was that really necessary?" he squirms as you approach.
"Perhaps, I am a warrior not a policeman, thus my methods might perhaps tend toward what is brutally efficient. Even so; perhaps he can be salvaged"
I land about 10ft away from him, my body taking full form from the streaming darkness that my flying form consists of.
"as I recall; you were speaking to him about some items I am interested in and thus; some activities therin. Speak now of what you know of and if I think it of value and not a diversive waste of my time; I will let you keep your human form with your conscious brain intact."
"and yes, Supergirl is fast; but she is not magus and will not be able to save you, so, what have you to say; events move on and my impatience grows..."
<do I need to roll presence to be intimidating? am going for the good cop bad cop routine where I am the dark figure of the burned out worse cop>
"Perhaps, I am a warrior not a policeman, thus my methods might perhaps tend toward what is brutally efficient. Even so; perhaps he can be salvaged"
I land about 10ft away from him, my body taking full form from the streaming darkness that my flying form consists of.
"as I recall; you were speaking to him about some items I am interested in and thus; some activities therin. Speak now of what you know of and if I think it of value and not a diversive waste of my time; I will let you keep your human form with your conscious brain intact."
"and yes, Supergirl is fast; but she is not magus and will not be able to save you, so, what have you to say; events move on and my impatience grows..."
"The baron wants some gear someone stole, something about some mercenaries being stomped by some newbie mutant who was supposed to be hiding here. We were supposed to draw off the Bat so the Baron's flunkies could find the items but somebody hired the hit squad outside, me and the Count were with Bane when he went one on one with the Ice dame and we took cover, you know all that ice of hers is a little dangerous to those of us without the superstuff going for them," he babbles back taking a moment to look past you.
Supergirl:
"Er, have you seen a girl in dark robes surrounded by other robed guys?" Firefly asks nervously.
yes I have; what do you know of her; I owe her a punch in the mouth, what do you owe her?
yes I have; what do you know of her; I owe her a punch in the mouth, what do you owe her?
"The robed guys are the Baron's minions from what the Count said he's using them to control her, something about the Ice dame not being willing to harm an innocent or something like that," Firefly babbles.
"perhaps; it is such a bother, at least this isnt a place we have to clean up whats left and I doubt anyone would notice all the screaming; look on the positive side"
(back to the villian)
"that is all very interesing; a good start, please do continue, Baron, Count, Minions; do tell; sounds like a whole court of intrigue"
"your doing so well"
(I look at him like I am boored with almost no expression yet hard hard eyes of war.)
"perhaps; it is such a bother, at least this isnt a place we have to clean up whats left and I doubt anyone would notice all the screaming; look on the positive side"
(back to the villian)
"that is all very interesing; a good start, please do continue, Baron, Count, Minions; do tell; sounds like a whole court of intrigue"
"your doing so well"
(I look at him like I am boored with almost no expression yet hard hard eyes of war.)
Firefly looks back he is quite silent.
"Huh?" he sighs.
This Baron and Count; what are their full names; These minions; tell me about them; tell me all you know of each of them. Tell me where I can find the treasure there seek here and why they want it.
tell me the truth and you can go; tell me a lie and you will never sleep safe again.
This Baron and Count; what are their full names; These minions; tell me about them; tell me all you know of each of them. Tell me where I can find the treasure there seek here and why they want it.
tell me the truth and you can go; tell me a lie and you will never sleep safe again.
"Baron Mordo and Count Vertigo, you know looks identical to that former android," Firefly babbles.
"You want to find the treasure, find Raven before she finds wherever the Ice Dame hid what she took from the Baron, thats if she hasn't found them already though I have no idea why he set all of us on this shindig!" he curses audibly.
As far as I am concerned you can go; flee this place and return no more; think over your choices; you would not like meeting me again.
I turn and go toward Supergirl: "This Mordo, I may know of him; not sure; a human magus trained by humans, I dont know much about him; rumor has it he consorts with demons so would expect him to have a strong will and probably can do mental magic as I can; This Vertigo I do not know; dizzyness from heights, blurred vision; hmm; panic perhaps. The Baron is the higher rank; thus probably the greatest threat though I would expect him to have human weaknesses; greed; powercraving, need for domination; not a man to look in the eye. His powers might be fearsome; but still a man; get past his defenses and you could pull his arms off; fail against his defenses and you might end up enslaved for a long long time and like any mage; attack him when he knows who you are and that your coming and can prepare for you; folly.
This Vertigo; he is a concern; do you know him; someone built this robot; perhaps it was he and he has a battlesuit; that might pose a problem.
I can probably aid your defenses; no worries; do you have much experience at stealth; do you really have the stomach for such a manuever? It is a cute stomach I grant you; but this might be more than you can swallow; with thought and teamwork I believe we can truimpth over any situation even though I am not yet at my true strength; I am yet to adjust to this world.
Well Mordo I encountered a few days back. I was quite vulnerable to his magic. I would suggest that when we deal with him, to have his ire drawn towards you and as much as I dislike doing it, I end up coming in from behind. (Lowers head in shame for suggesting fighting on the level of a villain).
Correct me if I'm wrong GM, tis been awhile.
Firefly doesn't need to be told twice as he flees.
"Fair enough; it is good that a team discuss such things; that we know some practical limits; thus, if I see you kiling people; I will know something is wrong as that would be outside your normal character.
Among the dark elves I grew up with; there is no discrimination between males and females; both are equally trained and deadly with both magic and weapons; I have noticed that females of my homeland here on earth are more coddled and trained to helplessness which they must overcome to act, while many male combatants are overly aggressive and destructive. But then, if memory serves; you are an alien; as alien as I it would seem; thus I know not what is normal for your peoples.
let us go check this robot, perhaps we might gain some insight; what chances do you think it could be a bomb or have a self destruct; seems the bad guy thing to do; perhaps you should check it and evict it from the building via a window lest we loose the building itself.
let us go check this robot, perhaps we might gain some insight; what chances do you think it could be a bomb or have a self destruct; seems the bad guy thing to do; perhaps you should check it and evict it from the building via a window lest we loose the building itself.
The robot is gone, there is signs of something being dragged off but its heading the way you came in and as you look the building shudders and then does so again as it feels like someone outside is raining explosives on the exterior.
Maelidek:
Supergirl:
"hmm; someone dragged the robot away; I was afraid of that, but it could not be help....wait...something is wrong....
Something has changed, like we have changed dimensions or are withing a bubble; I cannot sense the magic around other than what I am generating from inside me; like the rules changed and we are somewhere else or inside something that blocks magic or we are about to get attacked and someone has deliberately damped my senses to move into position to attack us; beware.
<I take cover and look around expecting the worse>
"perhaps we should make haste to the lowest level; things seem to be pointing us there; talk of tunnels and such; we need stealth yet also speed."
ok; done; what is Karma for?
ok; done; what is Karma for?
Oh and can be used to improve existing abilities but the cost varies between adding a new power, improving an ability score or even increasing your character's resource levels and so on. Popularity however is usually altered by game events and the character's actions though.
"Bizzare indeed! Fortunetely, I need no coddeling."
I scan the entire surroundings with x-ray vision in an attempt to get a better understanding of why things seem to have suddenly changed around us.
Supergirl:
But the bad weather is spreading and getting much worse
Maelidek:
ok; then lets leave; we can always come back; seems we are behind the curve this time; let us depart and see what can be seen, you lead and I will follow.
Individuals in stress; hmm ;nothing comes to mind; I might be able to find rips to other dimensions if they were recent, but I am not sensitive to pychic impressions of a person under stress; most of my mental abilities with magic are direct line of sight or to place and enchantment on a place or thing. I am a master at weather control and the dark magic that goes bump in the night and am proffient if a few other things; I will give some consideration to your query and see if I can come up with something creative.
perhaps if we had some hair or blood of someone; I could find them or perhaps what they are thinking for a few moments. do you see anything like that of our enemies? Anything a person takes ownership of ties a link back to him or her and could be used for many things; not all pleasant I assure you; thus be sure you leave naught here for them to find.
ok; then lets leave; we can always come back; seems we are behind the curve this time; let us depart and see what can be seen, you lead and I will follow."Do you have any way of detecting individuals in stress within the building? My X-ray vision is quite limited due to the substances placed within the walls."
I listen very intently with my super hearing to see if I can detect anyone in need of rescuing.
Supergirl:
The fighting is going on in the cafeteria where that saucer crashlanded before that costumed trio had been busy shoring up the shattered wall as the storm waged on outside.
However where you're currently located you don't see anyone in particular danger as most of the Lexcorp goons you can see seem more interested in bringing down the front half of the building above you.
A sudden sound distracts the pair of you as turning to look at each other you realise its coming from the communicator Pong gave to Maelidek back at the base.
Since it was during the evening Maelidek had first taken duty at the monitor it had remained unused but kept on his person where it remained forgotten since it was amoungst some of the gear bats had suggested you each carry although in Supergirl's case it was decided most of it wouldn't survive active use until it was modified which would take far longer than fixing her cape.
"This is Batman, can you hear me?" the voice over the radio is noticeably crackly and distorted whether its due to the weather or just being located underground you don't know.
"Am tracking a cold front heading back to New Proverbial's Museum of Antiquity, suggest you join me there as soon as possible. Pong is already there, advise caution Mordo isn't working alone!" he then says as the distortion gets worse and the radio just crackles for a few moments before falling silent.
As I try to figure out how to use the thing I ask Supergirl;
"arent we at the Museaum?"
into the radio
"confirm transmission understood"
"do you copy, is this working, the storm is magical in nature and directed; the building is under seige; at least 4 parties identified as after the prize."
As I try to figure out how to use the thing I ask Supergirl;
"arent we at the Museum?"
into the radio
"confirm transmission understood"
"do you copy, is this working, the storm is magical in nature and directed; the building is under seige; at least 4 parties identified as after the prize."
Your earlier conversation with the Ice Witch revealed she had hidden the artefacts she had been blamed for stealing, back where they had been supposedly stolen from.
That is after temporarily draining them of their magical essence to lure the thief our of hiding, unfortunately that someone was either not fooled or set the Rogue's Gallery up as a diversion to search for the artefacts without having to fight her.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Supergirl; lets follow our plan and move; meet with the others; I cant get this radio to work; lets move out as planned; to the new museaum sight where we were last night, I believe.
MEANWHILE:
"Okay, okay I'm here," pants Pong.
"What was so important you needed to divert me from joining the others?" Pong gasped into his comlink.
"HE DIDN'T" a familiar voice made Pong turn to look over his shoulder.
"Hey..." Pong began to say as his eyes widened as he realised what the speaker was doing.
"Ulp!" he gulped again.
After that it was mostly frantic dodging and being blown around by explosive blasts.
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"Pong what was that you said?" Batman asked.
The strange weather system seemed to be centred above the former museum, he had hoped to pick up reinforcements en route but with Skater's family firmly rebuffing his attempts to recruit the youth and none of the others responding to his calls he had finally headed out in the Batcycle.
It felt strange with the original Batcar still being pulled out of mothballs back at his original bat cave, but with the weird weather he couldn't risk using the batplane and with the comms on the fritz he hoped getting closer might stabilise the radio long enough to get back in contact.
A sudden flash of light off to the side of the route he was using to head to the former museum caught his attention.
Quickly flicking a toggle on his bike he tried again to locate where the others were, unlike Maelidek he had managed to tag supergirl's cape and it indicated she was at the former museum, but Pong was way over at New Proverbial's current museum.
"What is he doing over there?" batman wondered and then remembering Pong's last call decided that maybe he ought to follow his hunches more as he flicked his helmet comlink on and spoke.
This is Batman, can you hear me?" he called to the others over the radio which is noticeably crackly and distorted whether its due to the weather or someone jamming the communicators he wasn't sure.
Noting that the helmet's built in scan screen was showing something odd heading away from the former museum he chose to change direction in response taking care to avoid the traffic and attention of the locals in case they were acting as lookouts for whoever was backing this latest scheme.
"Am tracking a cold front heading back to New Proverbial's Museum of Antiquity, suggest you join me there as soon as possible. Pong is already there, advise caution Mordo isn't working alone!" he then says into the comlink before it goes suddenly dead as does the bike's electronics.
"FAREWELL BATMAN" a strangely familiar voice says as the bike instead of making the turn that would put it in sight of the museum careers off course towards the reinforced wall of the building that borders the road he was trying to take...
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ok; here is recap as I get it; we were at the old museaum which was converted to a school; there were several groups of bad guys there pursuing some item; We got a message to go to the new museaum and meet pong on the radio from Batman <from the other dialog we dont know in character; it seems to be a ploy to stop us from getting the unknown item; but gives us a chance to possibly rescue Pong and Batman>
So; at this point; as we are leaving the old museum heading for the new museaum; we are flying fast to join up with Pong and Bats. The weather is getting crazy; but I am not so concerned as bad weather is just more fuel for my magic as tensions and apprehension of the mortal world seek shelter; also will take a lot of civilians out of harms way.
So; I take it the you and I; Maelideck and Supergirl are racing off through the air to the new museaum; which is the place you and I met and fought that other guy who did the darkness and injured our wounded comrade.
I shed the illusion of Bane oncee we leave the building.
"you know Supergirl; we should make a list of all the players involved so far; might help us get a handle of what is going on. Who is with who and who is against who and who is in it for themselves or just to twart others; this is like an Opera with lots of forces at work. Let us be wary; the twists and turns are building yet the final powers have not yet shown themselves"
"I thought your idea to leave the building purdent; we were asked by radio to meet with Pong and Batman; maybe they have gathered more information; there appears to be like four groups here at war; can we contest against four groups; perhaps we should do this another way; let them fight it out and seize the prize from whomever fate chooses to end up with it. If we hurry; we could meet Batman and Pong and get their information; and come back here as a group as intended; we may still yet have time as this war seems to be excalating rather than diminishing; what say you"
Wow, sorry but I got lost. Help me out here. Recap and keep in simple please.
Essentially showing what was happening that led to the radio message from batman
I thought it was cool; very comic book like; please continue; very narratorish :)
The storm builds to a climax as the gun toting goons firing on the vacated former school are stunned as the walls collapse outwards as a red and blue blur passes overhead and out of the recesses of the now demolished building swiftly followed by a black shadow streaking out into the city.
Even as the lighting and thunder mark the storm releasing its fury before the rain descends as a fierce shower there are further lights and explosions from the city interior as the duo fly towards the new disturbance and even as they close in an eery mist ascends from the ground and surrounds the building at the centre of this battle for battle it definitely is.
Atop the New Proverbial Museum a black figure dressed in a long cape adorned with a batmask is leaping around dodging the attacks of what looks like a trio of macabre figures each appear to be rejects from a clown circus except for the edged weapons and energy blasts they throw at their opponent.
At the base a figure seemingly clad in battle armour has just thrown a somewhat malleable body off to the side and is confronting what looks like a woman all dressed in white and a levitating teenager.
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"Oof!" Batman splutters as he's plucked from the batcycle barely a moment before it crashes into the wall.
"Saw you drive off earlier and assumed something else was coming down so sneaked out to follow you, what caused your loss of control?" Skater asked having stopped levitating backwards once he was out of range of the batcycle's explosion.
"We need to head over there, Pong's in trouble!" Batman gasped.
"Okay," Skater sighed as he headed towards the museum.
Closing in they can clearly see Pong bouncing around dodging the blasts of someone, actually several someones' who notice them as they close in.
"Drop me here!" Batman ordered.
Skater obeyed as he dodged the first of the attacks aimed now at them and even as Batman hit the road running he soared up and over before using his power to slingshot him past the attackers and to land on a windowsile of the museum.
The battle armoured figured turned and promptly fired a shoulder mounted missile launcher.
Skater dropped from the window even as three of the five missiles struck the side of the building rocking the entire area.
The remaining two pursued him as he suddenly understood who their opponent was.
"Hey Mechimera, what the heck are you doing!" he yelled at the former comrade.
"Don't bother, I tried that he's gone completely nuts!" Pong yelled back as he intercepted Skater's fall and using his body bounced back off the museum wall and back the way he had come as another missile smashed into the wall narrowly missing them.
Batman threw a pair of batarangs but both were either parried with a thrown dagger or an energy blast from another of the clown attired henchmen.
"Either an old friend of mine has been openly recruiting or you three are in big trouble if ever hears you've been stealing his schtick!" he growls at them.
They don't respond but at least he manages to acrobatically leap past them and using the distraction from the other two fires a batline to the roof and uses it to temporarily escape his three opponents.
Taking a moment to gauge his adversaries he still doesn't know whether this was the work of his nemesis, but given who had almost killed his former team he suspected Mordo was around here somewhere.
As he dodged another round of attacks a cold mist started to emerge from the ground surrounding the museum and whilst not able to watch a part of the entrance suddenly erupted as a group of five figures rushed out and past Mechimera heading straight for the museum followed by a woman dressed all in white.
Had he not seen the Justice League files he wouldn't have recognised her, but even then noone had ever managed to get a clear identification of the Ice Witch so he had to be happy knowing things had just got decidely worse.
Mechimera caught Pong as Skater managed to skid clear of Mechimera's attacks.
Batman paused only for a moment as he saw Mechimera turn to face the Ice Witch as Bats returned his attention to his three attackers and hoped the others got here soon.
It was clear Mechimera had removed his former vulnerability to Skater's powers the missile attack showed he had even formulated a way to deal with the teenager but the former hero didn't know about the two newcomers and that might turn the tide, he hoped.
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