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<blockquote data-quote="GreenKarl" data-source="post: 6872584" data-attributes="member: 6801242"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>EPISODE #1 – THE TERMINUS INCIDENT </strong></span></p><p><strong>ISSUE #1 – “Into the Storm”</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>THE HEROES OF OUR TALE…</em></strong><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Galatea </span></span></strong>(played by <em>Charwoman Gene</em>)<strong></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Kitsume </strong>(played by <em>Shayuri</em>)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>The Paladin</strong> (played by <em>jonathonhawke</em>)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>The Shadow</strong> (played by <em>KahlessNestor</em>)</p><p></p><p><strong>Monday, April 11[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016, 10:49am CST</strong></p><p><strong>‘The Yellow Brick Row Farmers Market’, MainTown Centropolis</strong></p><p> </p><p>It was a warm and sunny spring day in MainTown Centropolis, when the peaceful scene was shattered by a huge explosion on Dover Street and 1st Ave… right in the heart of the city’s historic Farmers Market!!! The heart-stopping boom of the explosion shattered glass and could be heard for miles around. Within moments a strange black whirlwind vortex formed. A cyclonic mass that suddenly discharging what appear to be bolts of bluish-black lightning bolts within its core and lash outward around the immediate vicinity. The vortex of blackish energy then rose into the sky, perhaps twenty meters off the ground, lightning-like bolts peppering the area with additional destructive energy. As suddenly as it formed and grew the vortex and the bolts subside and began to dissipate before anyone (including the heroes) could arrive on the scene, leaving the dead and injured as the most immediate concern. The fleeing, panicked crowds and hopelessly jammed roads meant that there was no conventional vehicle (including emergency vehicles) are getting into the area any time soon... </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[sblock=Keiko aka Kitsune]Keiko is on the other side of the ‘Yellow Brick Row Farmers Market’ (this market stretches a mile or so along Dover Street. Keiko was knocked off her feet by the “BOOM” of the explosion but suffered no ill effects. People around her was also knocked down and are now screaming and shouting. Most are attempting to stand and then flee the area. Glass was shattered all around the area and every car alarm with a mile of the blast are now blaring making it hard to hear much.[/sblock]</p><p> </p><p>[sblock= Karl aka The Paladin]Karl is enjoying an early lunch on a park bench in the Atlas Memorial Park, watching the folks enjoying an fine spring day when he feels the explosion to the southeast of where he is sitting. It’s was less then a mile away and he sees the expanding vortex or strange energy appear after the explosion and then slowly fade back… it sort of reminds the young paladin of the portal that brought him to this world. Oh it is very different in many regards but still strangely familiar. As the vortex fads he hears the screams and cries of the wounded and scared and various blaring of horns that he has come to associate with car-alarms.[/sblock]</p><p> </p><p>[sblock=[COLOR=#333333]<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Eliza</span>[/COLOR] aka <span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Galatea</span></span>]Eliza Petroski is also at the 'Yellow Brick Row Farmers market', just one block north of where the explosion was. She was mostly just window shopping but had stopped into a local thrift shop to drop off some extra cloths she had when everything went dark for a second. The explosion shakes the building causing all the lights to go off and plaster and ceiling tile (along with some of the lights) to crash down onto the other customers and Jane. With the dust quickly filling the large open sale’s room and the only light spilling in from the outside, it starts to get very dark where Petroski is. You could easily walk out of the room and be outside without too much trouble if you want but you are not in costume. Outside screams and multiple car alarms are making for a chaotic scene.[/sblock]</p><p> </p><p>[sblock= Caleb aka The Shadow]Caleb is on his break at the <span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Millionaires Pavillion </span></span>when he is asked by a co-worker to help jumpstart her car as the battery is dead. While the pair are outside, Caleb sees the explosion over the cityscape. A few second later the both hear the explosion and then feel the sonic boom. You are about two miles from the MainTown core which is the general area that you are sure the explosion came from. Your co-worker is shocked by the explosion and suggest that you head back inside to check the news and also because your boss will probably want to secure the mall to keep the patrons safe, just in case there are more explosions to come. As if on cue, a red light starts flashing over the armed security lockdown door indicating that the mall would be going into emergency lockdown in less than one minute.[/sblock]</p><p> </p><p>[GM]OK this is where you get to describe what your character is going to do, somewhat based on where you are. Also describe what your character looks like in Hero Persona if you are appearing at the disaster site in your hero’s costume, what powers you display that are visible to others, etc. NOTE that without the POWER <strong>Feature</strong> ‘transform into costume as a free action or something similar or <strong>Quickness</strong> it takes 1-3 rounds to ‘change’ depending on what your hero suit looks like and how much time it might take to put on, etc. If it’s just a mask you throw over your face, 1 round. If you have to undress as its under your civilian clothing 2 rounds, if you have to take your clothes off and put on the costume (because it’s too bulky to wear under your normal cloths) 3 rounds, etc. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Keiko</strong> is on the edge of the explosive radius and can see lots of hurt and injured folk, and worst farther on and closer to where the explosion must have originated. </p><p><strong>Karl</strong> is maybe four to six blocks away from the edge of the aftermath of the explosion (maybe half a mile from the center of the explosion) so within a couple of minutes if running he will be on the edge of the affected area. Or he could try and commandeer a taxi or something but everyone is moving away from the explosion so it would need some kind of Persuasion or Intimidate check. </p><p><strong><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Eliza</span></span></strong> is also near the center of the explosion. You are in a building that was damage by the explosion but no one inside has been hurt. Outside Eliza can hear screams of terror and pain. </p><p><strong> Caleb</strong> is a neighborhood away, but no more than two miles away. While it is a warm spring day, there are still plenty of patches of shadow around where you are standing right now. His co-worker is running back inside the mall and urging him to follow.</p><p> </p><p>If you want to do anything, try and save people, etc. describe what you are doing and make some Trait (Strength, Dexterity, Agility or Athletics, Investigation, Perception, etc.) checks that you want and make your rolls. I prefer using the dice roller here. Just type…</p><p> </p><p>{roll=Investigation}1d20+5{/roll}</p><p> </p><p>Replacing the {x} with [x] </p><p> </p><p>After you describe how you are getting here and what you are going to do, makes some tests and post away. Its unlikely you will run into each other in the first scene so don't worry to much about that. Then something will happen… [/GM]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenKarl, post: 6872584, member: 6801242"] [SIZE=3][B]EPISODE #1 – THE TERMINUS INCIDENT [/B][/SIZE] [B]ISSUE #1 – “Into the Storm”[/B] [B][I]THE HEROES OF OUR TALE…[/I][/B][INDENT][B][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Galatea [/FONT][/COLOR][/B](played by [I]Charwoman Gene[/I])[B] Kitsume [/B](played by [I]Shayuri[/I]) [B]The Paladin[/B] (played by [I]jonathonhawke[/I]) [B]The Shadow[/B] (played by [I]KahlessNestor[/I])[/INDENT] [B]Monday, April 11[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016, 10:49am CST[/B] [B]‘The Yellow Brick Row Farmers Market’, MainTown Centropolis[/B] It was a warm and sunny spring day in MainTown Centropolis, when the peaceful scene was shattered by a huge explosion on Dover Street and 1st Ave… right in the heart of the city’s historic Farmers Market!!! The heart-stopping boom of the explosion shattered glass and could be heard for miles around. Within moments a strange black whirlwind vortex formed. A cyclonic mass that suddenly discharging what appear to be bolts of bluish-black lightning bolts within its core and lash outward around the immediate vicinity. The vortex of blackish energy then rose into the sky, perhaps twenty meters off the ground, lightning-like bolts peppering the area with additional destructive energy. As suddenly as it formed and grew the vortex and the bolts subside and began to dissipate before anyone (including the heroes) could arrive on the scene, leaving the dead and injured as the most immediate concern. The fleeing, panicked crowds and hopelessly jammed roads meant that there was no conventional vehicle (including emergency vehicles) are getting into the area any time soon... [sblock=Keiko aka Kitsune]Keiko is on the other side of the ‘Yellow Brick Row Farmers Market’ (this market stretches a mile or so along Dover Street. Keiko was knocked off her feet by the “BOOM” of the explosion but suffered no ill effects. People around her was also knocked down and are now screaming and shouting. Most are attempting to stand and then flee the area. Glass was shattered all around the area and every car alarm with a mile of the blast are now blaring making it hard to hear much.[/sblock] [sblock= Karl aka The Paladin]Karl is enjoying an early lunch on a park bench in the Atlas Memorial Park, watching the folks enjoying an fine spring day when he feels the explosion to the southeast of where he is sitting. It’s was less then a mile away and he sees the expanding vortex or strange energy appear after the explosion and then slowly fade back… it sort of reminds the young paladin of the portal that brought him to this world. Oh it is very different in many regards but still strangely familiar. As the vortex fads he hears the screams and cries of the wounded and scared and various blaring of horns that he has come to associate with car-alarms.[/sblock] [sblock=[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Eliza[/FONT][/COLOR] aka [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Galatea[/FONT][/COLOR]]Eliza Petroski is also at the 'Yellow Brick Row Farmers market', just one block north of where the explosion was. She was mostly just window shopping but had stopped into a local thrift shop to drop off some extra cloths she had when everything went dark for a second. The explosion shakes the building causing all the lights to go off and plaster and ceiling tile (along with some of the lights) to crash down onto the other customers and Jane. With the dust quickly filling the large open sale’s room and the only light spilling in from the outside, it starts to get very dark where Petroski is. You could easily walk out of the room and be outside without too much trouble if you want but you are not in costume. Outside screams and multiple car alarms are making for a chaotic scene.[/sblock] [sblock= Caleb aka The Shadow]Caleb is on his break at the [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Millionaires Pavillion [/FONT][/COLOR]when he is asked by a co-worker to help jumpstart her car as the battery is dead. While the pair are outside, Caleb sees the explosion over the cityscape. A few second later the both hear the explosion and then feel the sonic boom. You are about two miles from the MainTown core which is the general area that you are sure the explosion came from. Your co-worker is shocked by the explosion and suggest that you head back inside to check the news and also because your boss will probably want to secure the mall to keep the patrons safe, just in case there are more explosions to come. As if on cue, a red light starts flashing over the armed security lockdown door indicating that the mall would be going into emergency lockdown in less than one minute.[/sblock] [GM]OK this is where you get to describe what your character is going to do, somewhat based on where you are. Also describe what your character looks like in Hero Persona if you are appearing at the disaster site in your hero’s costume, what powers you display that are visible to others, etc. NOTE that without the POWER [B]Feature[/B] ‘transform into costume as a free action or something similar or [B]Quickness[/B] it takes 1-3 rounds to ‘change’ depending on what your hero suit looks like and how much time it might take to put on, etc. If it’s just a mask you throw over your face, 1 round. If you have to undress as its under your civilian clothing 2 rounds, if you have to take your clothes off and put on the costume (because it’s too bulky to wear under your normal cloths) 3 rounds, etc. [B]Keiko[/B] is on the edge of the explosive radius and can see lots of hurt and injured folk, and worst farther on and closer to where the explosion must have originated. [B]Karl[/B] is maybe four to six blocks away from the edge of the aftermath of the explosion (maybe half a mile from the center of the explosion) so within a couple of minutes if running he will be on the edge of the affected area. Or he could try and commandeer a taxi or something but everyone is moving away from the explosion so it would need some kind of Persuasion or Intimidate check. [B][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Eliza[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] is also near the center of the explosion. You are in a building that was damage by the explosion but no one inside has been hurt. Outside Eliza can hear screams of terror and pain. [B] Caleb[/B] is a neighborhood away, but no more than two miles away. While it is a warm spring day, there are still plenty of patches of shadow around where you are standing right now. His co-worker is running back inside the mall and urging him to follow. If you want to do anything, try and save people, etc. describe what you are doing and make some Trait (Strength, Dexterity, Agility or Athletics, Investigation, Perception, etc.) checks that you want and make your rolls. I prefer using the dice roller here. Just type… {roll=Investigation}1d20+5{/roll} Replacing the {x} with [x] After you describe how you are getting here and what you are going to do, makes some tests and post away. Its unlikely you will run into each other in the first scene so don't worry to much about that. Then something will happen… [/GM] [/QUOTE]
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