Through your searching, you find the entire first floor lounge and gaming area to be in the storm save for the back office. You eavesdropping there leads you to this character
she seems to be concentrating intensely on the storm, her arms spread wide.
I'm just gonna fly there in my sweats
Despite it not being the brightest idea, Tom flies off in his sweats and meets up with the team at the casino. His costume is in the plane if he really needs it later.
Samurai makes his way to the Vanguard craft but once again at this point he doesn't say much to the other members of Vanguard. In this persona it seemed that he responded as opposed to starting conversation or making idle chatter. He was focused on the task at hand, his blade ready to strike the enemy.
You eavesdropping there leads you to a character who to be concentrating intensely on the storm, her arms spread wide.
Trailblazer keeps the rest of the Vanguard informed.
Studying her carefully, he tries to determine whether she has any equipment on her; in particular, some sort of comm link?
If so, Trailblazer will try to fiddle with mine and find their frequency.
If not, Trailblazer will distract her with psychokinesis, perhaps throwing a stapler at her head.
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Studying her carefully, he tries to determine whether she has any equipment on her; in particular, some sort of comm link?If so, Trailblazer will try to fiddle with mine and find their frequency.
If not, Trailblazer will distract her with psychokinesis, perhaps throwing a stapler at her head.
She doesnt have a commlink, and that would be an attack roll.
That would be an attack roll.
Excellent. Trailblazer keeps his team-mates informed, and he attacks.
Gold Rush addresses Maddicks. "GREETINGS, COMMISSIONER. THE VANGUARDS OF LIBERTY ARE ON THEIR WAY. WHAT IS YOUR STATUS HERE?"
Excellent. Trailblazer keeps his team-mates informed, and he attacks.
Gold Rush addresses Maddicks. "GREETINGS, COMMISSIONER. THE VANGUARDS OF LIBERTY ARE ON THEIR WAY. WHAT IS YOUR STATUS HERE?"
"Nothing's changed here Gold Rush. My men have got the area cordoned and we've moved back all the civillian onlookers." Maddicks says in a gruff voice, stopping to bark an order at one of his men to get a photographer back behind the barricade who slipped past to snap a photo of the Captain and Gold Rush conversing.
"Comissioner advised us against movin in but from what we can see all the windows and doors are dark, cant really tell what from. And it's untellin considerin we're dealing with supers. We've cleared a space for landing right here in front for the AAVC." He's all business, a true professional.
"Gold Rush, are you listening on our Comm-frequency?"
Gold Rush's built-in receiver is short-range only, and I didn't buy him a standard transmitter. It would have to be a high-powered transmission for him to pick up on it.
Never mind. I'm on it.
Memento mori, Trailblazer broadcasts on the police band frequency: "Calling STAR Squad Captain Maddick. Captain Maddick, can you respond?"
The captain seems a bit frazzled"Maddick's here...You and the rest of the VoL plan on getting here anytime soon? My men could've had this wrapped up five minutes ago if the commissioner had let us. For Christ's sake maybe if we start dressing in spandex and spewing one liners we'll get a little more respect." Maddicks is known of being distrustful of supers."Anything you need Trailblazer? Directions perhaps?"
"Captain.
"We've located one woman in the offices, creating a hurricane-strength wind-and-rainstorm on the main casino floor. There are at least two dozen civilians, trapped in makeshift shelters. I'm going to distract her. On my mark, get your men in there and get the civilians out. You won't have much time.
"Do not try to engage her, or any allies she has in there. Get in, get the people, get out. Engaging the enemy is our job.
"Questions, Captain?"
Tom does a flyby over the Casino and sets down near the Captain to await the arrival of his team mates. As he looks out at the situation, he starts to regret not putting his costume on. When he sees the captain he says, "Hey Big Chief, how can we help?"
"Get in, get the people, get out."
"That's a negative Trailblazer, as much as i like the way you think, the commisioner would have my @ss on a platter with A1 sauce before you could say steak fries." He barks into his comm, merely shaking his head at Captain Invincible, who is literally bombarded by camera flashes."Nice sweats hero...I'm sure there's a phonebooth around here somewhere cheif
Just to make it easier on everyone(including myself), so we can all start at the same time on this encounter, we'll hold off any other arrivals until the AAVC arrives.
"Roger that, Captain. Apologies. ETA 40 seconds."
Then Trailblazer launches the craft, flies a few thousand feet, and lands it.
Who in the group does have some sort of comm link?
Maddicks ushers the fully assembled VoL to the back of a STAR van"Just like I told Gold Rush, nothing's changed since I contacted you. My men have got the area cordoned and we've moved back all the civillian onlookers as you can see. The windows and glass on the doors are all obscured, cant tell what by from here, but you boys can have a closer look at that when you go in. Literally no one got out once the supers arrived. We saw em go in, 6 of em. Never seen em before, They've never tried anything like this in my city. I got my people searching the database to figure out who these guys are. Bottom line is, we dont really know at this point. So go take care of it Vangaurds."He gives the men a rundown of the situation
"And don't screw it up!" He adds, harshly thrusting his pointer finger towards the group.
. We saw em go in, 6 of em. Never seen em before, They've never tried anything like this in my city. I got my people searching the database to figure out who these guys are. Bottom line is, we dont really know at this point.
"Thank you, Captain. May we have a copy of the visuals you have of the six?
Trailblazer briefs his team on the information about the weather witch in the office. "I can probably take her out, or at least disrupt her field position, from here. Once I do, would you be able to get the civilians out?"
"What's the plan team? This is gonna be tricky, we need to make sure the civilians don't get hurt.
It's a little chilly out here today."
<waves at cameras with frosty breath>
If you show me where she is in the building, I could go straight through the wall and hit her hard- maybe even fly her out of the building.
Sure. Tom is stronger than Trailblazer's psychokinesis at a distance, and altogether more annoying, so he makes a better distraction.
Trailblazer re-engages his clairvoyance to see if she's still there, and gives Tom the coordinates as best he can.
"Pull up that footage Barnes." He tells a nervous looking officer who quickly obliges. The footage shows six criminals showing up from different directions before quickly stunning security, then the camera is hit with what appears to be a bola. The footage switches to an inside camera where a storm immediately kicks up, short circuiting the camera.
"Here's the floor plan."
Init order:
Gold Rush:38
The Samurai:9
Etrigan:2
Pulse:2
Trailblazer:1
Cap. Invincible:1
Where abouts is weather woman?
Where abouts is weather woman?
"Oh, we landed a friggin' plane in the parking lot, and Tom's waving to the cameras. If the thieves have either brains or merely ears, they know exactly where we are.
"So, on 1, Tom, you move in. I'll try to distract the weather-caster as well."
Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 = 13.
"I'd prefer to go through the wall, but I suppose I should keep collateral damage to a minimum."
On his turn, Tom Opts to fly straight through the front doors, and veer a hard right towards the offices, hoping to tackle the Weather Witch.
Samurai steps off the plane and proceeds towards the front doors at a slow and deliberate pace. He isn't exactly sure why he remains with this team as they seem to be a bunch of hot doggers and lone wolves operating out of their element then as a team but somethings just require another couple bodies to be present.
He still doesn't say a word to anyone. He had his doubts that Trailblazer and Invincible could handle the weather woman enough and it was already obvious that the STAR officer was not going to go into the Casino to save the civilians so it required a quick and through strike to destroy the enemy before casulties were observed.
Do you think we can keep OOC to spoilers or the discussion thread, it is kinda distracting and cutting up the action considerably.
Intelligence check (if needed) (1d20+7=19)
As soon as the doors are open, Gold Rush moves to begin rescuing hostages.
Etrigan Steps out of the plane,Folowing behind of the samurai with his sword drawn.
Tom Pitt Fly's headlong into a solid wall when hitting the door, but his superior strength shatters the door and a thick layer of what apears to be ice on the other side. Trailblazer sends a stapler whirling with some force into the "Weather-Witch" who lowers her hands and presses an intercom button infront of her"We've got trouble, get up here." She says cooly and confidently before quickly resuming the Storm. Once the doors are open,the bystanders run for the exit Captain Invincible created and the quick Gold Rush and Pulse assist in getting out what appears to be the majority of the hostages. Etrigan and the Samurai step in behind Captain Invincible, swords drawn.
"Intercoms," Trailblazer mutters. "At least the bad guys coordinate."
"She's calling reinforcements from down below," he calls out.
Trailblazer starts scanning for the other five villains, particularly in stairways.
"Captain, do we have a patch on the casino's security cameras?"
"Intercoms," Trailblazer mutters. "At least the bad guys coordinate."
"She's calling reinforcements from down below," he calls out.
Trailblazer starts scanning for the other five villains, particularly in stairways.
"Captain, do we have a patch on the casino's security cameras?"
"They've locked us out from inside TrailBlazer, my guys are workin on it." Maddicks barks into his comm
"Intercoms," Trailblazer mutters. "At least the bad guys coordinate."
"She's calling reinforcements from down below," he calls out.
Trailblazer starts scanning for the other five villains, particularly in stairways.
"Captain, do we have a patch on the casino's security cameras?"
Having battered through the ice wall, he flies into the Casino and carries on with his original plan. However, Tom doesn't like to punch women (generally), so he tries to tackle/grapple her. His goal is to pin her and then fly her out of the casino to hand her over to the police.
Attack: 1d20+8=28
Grapple Check: 1d20+26=31
Okay, my first roll with this character was a natural 20! (but the second was a 5)
Two Notice checks.
"Captain, off the record, I'm an electronics officer in the air force. Let me know if there's anything I can do to lend a hand with the ECCM."
Samurai holds his sword back as he gathers his Ki into it. He didn't feel like interferring with or hitting the good Captain with it so he held his blast until one of the "Weather-Witch"'s team mates appeared before unleashing it on them.
Notice Check: 1d20+9=24
Initiative Check: 1d20+9=14
Holding action until another baddie appears then unleash my Blast on the baddie.
1d20+10=18
Etriagns looks around