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<blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1708652" data-attributes="member: 13737"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In A Cave System Outside Mai Pai, China</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Standing in the doorway of Mia Toan's <em>playroom</em>, Raisa, X12, Jackal, Li and Xi stand stunned at the scene before them.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mia Toan stands, clad in her powerful protective armor, her helmet removed. She clutches a curving dagger, soaked in blood, in her right hand. Dark blood covers her face, chest and hands, startling red in the bright light of the cavern. At her feet lies Kevin York, an ornate katana through his stomach, pinning him to the floor, a dagger thrust through his chest and his throat slit open. His eyes remain open and unblinking, and blood pools around him though very little seems to be flowing from him any longer.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"You're too late," Mia Toan says with satisfaction. "Our love is fulfilled. He's mine forever. <em>And you can't have him!</em>" she shrieks suddenly at you, snatching Kevin's sword from the ground beside him, appearing ready to kill you all!</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em><u>Initiatives and Condition Summary</u></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em>Mia Toan 28, Amazon 21 (4HP, 3L, 1S, fatigued), Jackal 14 (4HP), X12 14 (4HP, 2L), Li 8 (2HP), Xi 7 (2HP)</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>In An Underground Tunnel, Brazil</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Vince staggers in the billowing dust, nearly banging into the wall several times as he bears the unconscious weight of a dying Monica towards the SAP research facility and help. But something is dreadfully wrong with the feline member of EPIC. Her head lolls back and her tail hangs limply. Two metal batons are imbedded in her chest and stomach, phased there by the Anarchy assassin, Ghost. The movement of running has caused the skin around the batons to rupture, and with great horror, Vince realizes she is not breathing.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He bursts from the dust cloud finally, and quickly sets her down, hitting his communicator but getting nothing but static. Frantically, he tries to get her breathing again, a tricky venture using mouth to feline face. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em>Medicine check (DC22): 6 (HP to re-roll gets a 15) -- stabilized</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After a long minute of trying, she coughs weakly, eyes fluttering open for a moment before she again loses consciousness. She is breathing however, very weakly.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em><u>Condition Summary</u></em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Vincent (3L, 1S), Monica (7L, 2S, disabled, KO)</span></em></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In the SAP Research Facility Infirmary ... two hours after combat</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Rebound lays napping on a bed, tired from his efforts. It's becoming obvious that using his growth powers is very hard on him. Mantis is sedated for pain, laying with her injured arm and leg both in slings. Vince and Monica haven't returned, and haven't checked in. Cosmo isn't around because...</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>Michelle, Johan</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">...Michelle released Cosmo to help transport Mason to South America's main containment facility. He's been checking in every fifteen minutes over the radio. Currently, Michelle and Johan are talking, within earshot of everyone, with the base medical doctor.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"We need to transfer Anna to a better equipped medical facility. She needs surgery that we are ill-equipped to do here," he explains. "They'd recover better in a better equipped hospital as well," the doctor says, nodding at Straightjacket and Tara. And I'm sure Ms. Vaile will want to speak with you all, once the rest of your team arrives.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Straightjacket</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Your dad has been talking your ear off. The only difference today? Everyone is noticing. He is still glowing with a bright green aura.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"You did great down there boy, other than that whole broken ribs, hole in leg part. But your girl will love the battle scars. You'll get some action out of those, don't you doubt!" he laughs, pinching the nurse on the rear as she goes by, earning himself a slap on the hand and a glare.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Loki</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">While everyone else is busy talking to doctors or looking strangely at who obviously, due to family resemblance and the fact that he keeps calling him 'boy' and 'son', is his father, you've looked around and come to one very certain conclusion. Neutron isn't around. Come to think of it, you haven't heard from Vince or Monica in quite some time.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In your P12 heightened state, you remember that there is a security terminal a floor up.</span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>Condition Summary</u></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Cosmo (OK), Loki (OK), Mantis (4L, disabled), Alan Cashman (1L), Straightjacket (4L, disabled x2), Metal Mistress (1L), Johan (OK), Anna (3L, disabled, KO), Rebound 5 ( fatigued)</span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>In a Secret SAP Lab, Same Facility</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Neutron</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">You are getting more and more ill, and feeling more and more weak by the moment. Your veins are getting darker and it is getting harder to breathe. You don't know how long you've been here. An hour? Two? More? The doctors, if that's what they are, don't talk to you much. They don't even enter your chamber, using robotic arms to inject you or change your IV bag. The guards don't move. The longer you are here, the more you doubt that they are trying to help you.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The realization has filled you with a desperation, though you fight through it to buy some time and wait for your moment.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After a long time, only a pair of scientists remain. The one monitoring you still sits, pushing buttons. You've come to know him lovingly as Dr. Pain, though he hasn't actually told you his name. The other doctor you cheerfully refer to as "BB", desperately hoping she'll ask you why so you can tell her it's because she has such big... eyes. So far, she hasn't taken the bait, though it is becoming rapidly obvious that she doesn't like Dr. Pain in the least.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">You hear a faint crackling beneath your table, nearly inaudible. After about the sixth time, straining your hearing you hear Cosmo. "We're about fifteen minutes out from the facility. Mason is still doing his sleeping beauty impression. Contact you again in fifteen."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Just then, all but one of the guards leave the room for some reason. Only the one watching you intently remains.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em><u>Condition Summary</u></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em>Neutron (2L, fatigued, Anaconda infected)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calinon, post: 1708652, member: 13737"] [b][font=Times New Roman]In A Cave System Outside Mai Pai, China[/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman]Standing in the doorway of Mia Toan's [i]playroom[/i], Raisa, X12, Jackal, Li and Xi stand stunned at the scene before them.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]Mia Toan stands, clad in her powerful protective armor, her helmet removed. She clutches a curving dagger, soaked in blood, in her right hand. Dark blood covers her face, chest and hands, startling red in the bright light of the cavern. At her feet lies Kevin York, an ornate katana through his stomach, pinning him to the floor, a dagger thrust through his chest and his throat slit open. His eyes remain open and unblinking, and blood pools around him though very little seems to be flowing from him any longer.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]"You're too late," Mia Toan says with satisfaction. "Our love is fulfilled. He's mine forever. [i]And you can't have him![/i]" she shrieks suddenly at you, snatching Kevin's sword from the ground beside him, appearing ready to kill you all![/font] [font=Times New Roman][i][u]Initiatives and Condition Summary[/u][/i][/font] [font=Times New Roman][i]Mia Toan 28, Amazon 21 (4HP, 3L, 1S, fatigued), Jackal 14 (4HP), X12 14 (4HP, 2L), Li 8 (2HP), Xi 7 (2HP)[/i][/font] [font=Times New Roman][b]In An Underground Tunnel, Brazil[/b][/font] [font=Times New Roman]Vince staggers in the billowing dust, nearly banging into the wall several times as he bears the unconscious weight of a dying Monica towards the SAP research facility and help. But something is dreadfully wrong with the feline member of EPIC. Her head lolls back and her tail hangs limply. Two metal batons are imbedded in her chest and stomach, phased there by the Anarchy assassin, Ghost. The movement of running has caused the skin around the batons to rupture, and with great horror, Vince realizes she is not breathing.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]He bursts from the dust cloud finally, and quickly sets her down, hitting his communicator but getting nothing but static. Frantically, he tries to get her breathing again, a tricky venture using mouth to feline face. [/font] [font=Times New Roman][i]Medicine check (DC22): 6 (HP to re-roll gets a 15) -- stabilized[/i] [/font] [font=Times New Roman]After a long minute of trying, she coughs weakly, eyes fluttering open for a moment before she again loses consciousness. She is breathing however, very weakly.[/font] [font=Times New Roman][i][u]Condition Summary[/u][/i][/font] [i][font=Times New Roman]Vincent (3L, 1S), Monica (7L, 2S, disabled, KO)[/font][/i] [b][font=Times New Roman]In the SAP Research Facility Infirmary ... two hours after combat[/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman]Rebound lays napping on a bed, tired from his efforts. It's becoming obvious that using his growth powers is very hard on him. Mantis is sedated for pain, laying with her injured arm and leg both in slings. Vince and Monica haven't returned, and haven't checked in. Cosmo isn't around because...[/font] [font=Times New Roman][b]Michelle, Johan[/b][/font] [font=Times New Roman]...Michelle released Cosmo to help transport Mason to South America's main containment facility. He's been checking in every fifteen minutes over the radio. Currently, Michelle and Johan are talking, within earshot of everyone, with the base medical doctor.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]"We need to transfer Anna to a better equipped medical facility. She needs surgery that we are ill-equipped to do here," he explains. "They'd recover better in a better equipped hospital as well," the doctor says, nodding at Straightjacket and Tara. And I'm sure Ms. Vaile will want to speak with you all, once the rest of your team arrives.[/font] [b][font=Times New Roman]Straightjacket[/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman]Your dad has been talking your ear off. The only difference today? Everyone is noticing. He is still glowing with a bright green aura.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]"You did great down there boy, other than that whole broken ribs, hole in leg part. But your girl will love the battle scars. You'll get some action out of those, don't you doubt!" he laughs, pinching the nurse on the rear as she goes by, earning himself a slap on the hand and a glare.[/font] [b][font=Times New Roman]Loki[/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman]While everyone else is busy talking to doctors or looking strangely at who obviously, due to family resemblance and the fact that he keeps calling him 'boy' and 'son', is his father, you've looked around and come to one very certain conclusion. Neutron isn't around. Come to think of it, you haven't heard from Vince or Monica in quite some time.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]In your P12 heightened state, you remember that there is a security terminal a floor up.[/font] [i][font=Times New Roman][u]Condition Summary[/u][/font][/i] [i][font=Times New Roman]Cosmo (OK), Loki (OK), Mantis (4L, disabled), Alan Cashman (1L), Straightjacket (4L, disabled x2), Metal Mistress (1L), Johan (OK), Anna (3L, disabled, KO), Rebound 5 ( fatigued)[/font][/i] [font=Times New Roman][b]In a Secret SAP Lab, Same Facility[/b][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman]Neutron[/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman]You are getting more and more ill, and feeling more and more weak by the moment. Your veins are getting darker and it is getting harder to breathe. You don't know how long you've been here. An hour? Two? More? The doctors, if that's what they are, don't talk to you much. They don't even enter your chamber, using robotic arms to inject you or change your IV bag. The guards don't move. The longer you are here, the more you doubt that they are trying to help you.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]The realization has filled you with a desperation, though you fight through it to buy some time and wait for your moment.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]After a long time, only a pair of scientists remain. The one monitoring you still sits, pushing buttons. You've come to know him lovingly as Dr. Pain, though he hasn't actually told you his name. The other doctor you cheerfully refer to as "BB", desperately hoping she'll ask you why so you can tell her it's because she has such big... eyes. So far, she hasn't taken the bait, though it is becoming rapidly obvious that she doesn't like Dr. Pain in the least.[/font] [font=Times New Roman]You hear a faint crackling beneath your table, nearly inaudible. After about the sixth time, straining your hearing you hear Cosmo. "We're about fifteen minutes out from the facility. Mason is still doing his sleeping beauty impression. Contact you again in fifteen."[/font] [font=Times New Roman]Just then, all but one of the guards leave the room for some reason. Only the one watching you intently remains.[/font] [font=Times New Roman][i][u]Condition Summary[/u][/i][/font] [font=Times New Roman][i]Neutron (2L, fatigued, Anaconda infected)[/i] [/font] [/QUOTE]
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