Epic M&M: Issue 5 (IC)

[Mimic]

Damn it I can't see anything, keep going Vince I can make my way out. Make sure Monica doesn't get into too much trouble. If it gets ugly bail out and make sure Monica comes with you, don't worry about Loco. Keep in contact with the communicators, if you can. Michelle tells Vince.

Michelle will start to head back towards the others.

 

[Calinon]

Mai Pei, China
October 25, 2120
Conditions: Jackal (4HP), Sho (2VP, 4L, fatigued, disabled), Kevin (5HP), Dara (4HP, 2S), Xi (1HP), Li (1HP), Amazon (3HP, 1L, 1S, ON FIRE!!!), X12 (4HP), Carl (5HP, 2L)

"Make up your bloody mind," Carl says. "You want me to stop you, you don't want me to stop you."

As X12 tries to locate the source of the oil, Raisa storms past, intent on kicking in the door. Midway along the black marble floor, she steps on a section and vanishes with a splash. The black coloring of the marble gives a chuckle as he starts to pour, inklike, through the small space at the base of the doors, revealing an open pit some ten feet across with space to walk around it safely. As soon as the shadowy man moves, the scent of oil becomes pungent and overpowering. Just as the shadowy fellow is about to vanish, two tendrils whip out, grabbing braziers and sending them tumbling into the pit!

Spot checks... y'all suck, you know that?

Reflex save (DC20): 18 fails (Raisa falls in)
Attack roll (DC15): 18 hits (the brazier falls in)
Damage save (DC16): 15 (1S ... and Raisa's clothing and hair are on fire!)

The heat is intense, and the lamp oil gives off enormous heat and light. It's easily fifteen feet deep and Raisa is floundering nearly in the middle!

Brazilia, SAA
SAP Research Facility
October 13, 2120

Vince
You and Monica tear down the tunnel as Michelle heads back into the warehouse. About two minutes later, you hear the distinctive sound of Loco from ahead. The truck, fully corporeal, comes into view, the back of it open, sitting in a cave entrance. You see Loco spinning behind it, then suddenly he flies back and into the wall as a trio of small explosions rip through the air next to him. He stops spinning as he gets stunned just as the two of you close to within fifty feet.

You can't see ghost, though Loco is already clearing his head and looking around. "He is in the walls somewhere, or the floor, or ceiling," Loco shouts out to you. "He delivered a canister of something to a hovercar and it left just before I arrived."

Initiatives: Vincent 25 (5HP, 1L, 1S), Loco 24 (2HP, 2L), Monica 20 (4HP, 2L, 2S), Ghost 18 (2VP)

OOC: The issue wraps up soon, at the end of these two likely brief battles. We'll wrap up loose ends next issue, which should start sometime next week.

 

[Mordane76]

"Is your binding material strong enough to use to pull her up, and will it withstand the flames," X12 calls to Li as he heads towards the pit.

 

[Elementor]

"Loco is that car long gone or is it still catchable if I fly after it?"

Vince has his 360 degree vision in full effect as he has no idea which direction Ghost might come from.

Powers: Superspeed sustained. Readying an attack to Mach One Punch Ghost if he appears within my 70 foot range.

 

[Velmont]

For a moment, Kevin saw Nova instead of Raisa at the bottom of the pit. After a small moment of hesitation, Kevin remove his Jacket and jump into the pit, using Li's power to create some kind of rope while he climb down, and stop before touching himself to the flames. He tie his legs to the rope and start to extenguish the flames with his jackets.

OOC: Spend HP to gain the extra swinging of Snare.

 

[Deva]

Everything else completely forgotten, Raisa fights not to panic as fire errupts around and on her. Thinking probably the fastest she ever has in her life, she takes a breath - as much as she can with the heat from the flames -, screams a warning to the others to get back and dunks herself beneath the surface of the oil. She'll propell herself to the bottom and once her feet touch ground she'll launch herself up and out of the pit, rolling when she lands to put out any flames.

Powers: Extra effort for leaping (if necessary) to get out of the pit.

 

[Calinon]

Mai Pei, China
October 25, 2120
Conditions: Jackal (4HP), Sho (2VP, 4L, fatigued, disabled), Kevin (5HP), Dara (4HP, 2S), Xi (1HP), Li (1HP), Amazon (3HP, 2L, 1S), X12 (4HP), Carl (5HP, 2L)

"Not even remotely!" Li shouts, backing quickly away from the flaming pit. Kevin starts feeling quite ill as the powers he has gained from Li start to fade rapidly. His skin starts drying out and breathing becomes intensely painful.

Flame is shooting up from inside the pit to the roof, shedding blazing light and intense heat into the hall.

Raisa, your hair is rapidly becoming singed (that's singed not gone; go go gadget protection), and your leather uniform is starting to bubble. You manage to get to the bottom of the rapidly burning oil filled pit, pushing off the bottom hard enough to manage to grasp the edge of the pit and pull yourself out. Rolling doesn't help put out the flames, however. The oil on you will likely rapidly burn out though.

Damage save (DC16): 12 fails (1L)
Reflex save (DC20): 18 (fails to extinguish flames... you'll only burn another round though).

Raisa is a mess and her uniform is on the verge of coming apart. Another few moments exposure to this flame will leave it in very questionable condition. Xi pulls Raisa onto the dirt section of the floor, coating her with dirt and managing to extinguish the flames.

Reflex save (DC20): 22 and it's out with assistance.

Brazilia, SAA
SAP Research Facility
October 13, 2120

Vince
Initiatives: Vincent 25 (5HP, 3L, 1S), Loco 24 (2HP, 3L), Monica 20 (4HP, 5L, 2S), Ghost 18 (2VP)

Loco shifts into Portuguese. "I had already considered that, but Ghost is unwilling to let me leave the cave. If you are as fast as Trailblazer, you might be able to catch it, if you can get out of the cavern."

"And what are the chances of that happening," comes a voice as Ghost emerges from the ceiling above Loco. Loco flashes several kicks out, and Vince shoots forward, punching at Ghost. Monica lands between the two of you, passing right through him as she pounces at him. No attack so much as causes a scratch to the ghostly man. There are a trio of small rattling sounds at your feet. You glance down and see three small metal spheres.

"Explosives!" Loco warns, just before they explode with loud bangs, spewing shrapnel in a small radius.

Reflex saves (DC17): Vince 25, Monica 18, Loco 32
Damage saves (DC18): Vince 13, 18, 15 (2L), Monica 15, 15, 13 (3L), Loco 22, 18, 10 (1L, stunned)

Ghost laughs as the small explosives do no harm to him. You see pieces of shrapnel impact some sort of force barrier at the mouth of the cave, obviously what kept Loco from chasing the car. Ghost pulls out a pair of what appear to be metallic batons, and remains incorporeal.

"I'm going to guess this means Mason won't be joining us any time soon?" he says casually.

Vince is up!

 

[Velmont]

OOC: Forget last post.

"Raisa!" Kevin watch, and step back, feeling uneasy with the fire. "Where that shadow basteard have gone?"

 

[Deva]

Raisa doesn't stay down long, thanking Xi as she gets to her feet and hoping her uniform stays on long enough to finish what they started. "He probably joined Mia and whoever is left, and that's where we'll find Master Wen."

She'll go around the pit to the doors and try to open them.

 

[Calinon]

Mai Pei, China
October 25, 2120
Initiatives: Amazon 21 (3HP, 2L, 1S), Kajo 19 (1VP), Kevin 19 (5HP), Mia 18, Dara 18 (4HP, 2S), Jackal 14 (4HP), X12 14 (4HP), Havok 11, Carl 10 (5HP, 2L), The Shadow 9 (2VP), Li 8 (1HP), Xi 7 (1HP)

Once the fire dies down, Raisa and the rest of you skirt the now empty but still smoldering pit. Raisa puts her shoulder to the center of the massive double doors, and with a splintering sound, then swing open, a wooden cross-beam falling apart on the other side. The room it reveals is ornate and magnificent, a throne room of some sort. To either side of an ornate throne, there are marble doors. You have little time to appreciate it though, as two men stand waiting at the midway point of the room.

One man some of you recognize as the gang leader that attacked the town. He's dressed in the same manner, with his leather biker gear on and spiked gloves on his hands. He looks eager to fight. Beside him towers a huge terra cotta warrior. He stands over ten feet tall with a sandy brown stone hide. At first you think he might just be a statue; then he blinks and becons you to come at him. He thumps his fist into an open palm with frightening speed and the sound reverberates through the room.

"Kajo, EPIC. They turfed your boys," the gang leader says with a smirk.

"Kajo crush them," the giant rumbles angrily.

Dark shadows flicker along the high ceiling above the men, some thirty feet off the floor, making you believe the Shadow is likely in the room as well.

Amazon is up!