Beyond Freedom (M&M PbP) Issue #1 - Loves Lost?!

[themaxx]

"What have you failed at?" Winter asks, looking both at the woman and the assembled crowd. He remains seated, apparently quite comfortable despite the cold night air and the hard floor beneath him.

"I too got a call, and had somebody close to me go missing recently. How did your ex go missing, friend?" Winter smiles slightly as he looks over to Ursus. A pleasure to see another one who has bonded with the spirits. Perhaps he too understand the dangerous road that we must help man to avoid.

[Edited for clarity and punctuation]

 

[Tokiwong]

Apollo smiled seeing Athena, "I had a feeling you would show up," he turned to those gathered and nodded at the motely crew, "I assume we have a common bond, and this woman has brought us here for a common purpose, that together we could succeed, and perhaps complete what they could not. I m as much in the dark as all of you, but I think we have a common purpose, perhaps we shoul work together, and find a way to bring whatever calamity is about to befall us, to a halt."

Not bad, though I wish I knew more, but we are all here for a purpose, and Athena I am familiar with, but the rest, who knows, but they seem like they lost someone as well... and this woman I suspect has contacted similar heroes...

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Jimmy walks to one of the side doors (hmm not sure if you could use luck for this, very little chance someone would leave a door open BUT I would agree that if you wanted to use your luck AND spend a Hero Point, the door to the side stairwell is open and it runs all the way to the roof. NOTE about Hero Points. Depending on how long each Issue last, you will get them back each issue or every other Issue. Sound good? I will hold off to find out if you want to spend the Hero Point before telling you if the door is open or not...)

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The strange woman looks at each of you as you appear around the rooftop. While you can't really see her face as it is partly hidden behind her hood, you do see that she is all white - her hair, her skin, her cloths all glow with a soft white light from inside her. The glow seems to fad as she nods and stands says "It is time... I'm sorry that I can't remember everything... what went wrong all those many years ago... I only know that you have to stop the monster... his allies are close and if you fail, the world will pay... with fire..."

 

[Tokiwong]

Apollo listens, I don't like the sound of this fire business..., "Don't worry we will stop these monster, and his allies, we won't let the world suffer with fire..."

 

[Keia]

(OCC: Oops, poor wording on my part, he was just seeing if it would be unlocked because that would be 'lucky,' not actually using his luck power. He'll use that for spotting, for now).

Jimmy tried the side door to no avail, then turned his back to it to ponder his situation. He looked around the area to see if anyone was looking. No easy way up to the rooftop. . . . hmmm . . . I wonder if I run fast enough I can ignore gravity for a moment or two. That should be enough time for me to get to the top of the building. If not, the fall should hurt too much - and I know I heal rather fast.

Jimmy stood at the bottom of the building and breathed several in and out breaths (like a diver) psyching himself out to try this stunt and slowing time down 3.2..1.

(OCC: He'll try running up to wall, trying to get to the top as soon as possible.)

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Jimmy takes a step or two back and then in a burst of speed runs up the wall... and appears on the roof almost out of no-where as far as the others are concerned. He sees a number of strangely dressed men, and two women here. One of the women is clearly the woman of your dreams... and with a strange flash of insight you know that you have seen her before. You don't remember where or when but you have seen this woman before! She looks at you, signs in relief and says "Good, you are all here... just in time... save your friends, save the others, save the world... please. If I am allowed I will try and help you again... but for now... you must work together or all is lost..."

With that the strange woman in white starts to fad, becoming transparent and disappearing. Almost as the same moment that she disappears, you all hear an explosion within the compound next to the building you are all standing on. Looking over you see a LAV (low-altitude vehicle) Security Car about 1000 or more feet away, trailing smoke and fire as it is seems to be get hit multiple times (from fire and maybe blaster cannon shots) and explodes in mid-air. At the same time the lights within the compound all go dark. Small arms blaster fire can be hear coming from within the compound… a small battle has obviously broken out over there!

Looking quickly around, you can see there are a couple of buildings in between you and where the shots are coming from and the compound is surrounded by a 15ft tall thick wire fence; with signs every 20 or so feet stating…(for those who can see in the Dark Vision, as right now the lights over the signs have all gone black)

Wellingford Complex
Private Property
Danger, Lethal Electric Fence
Stay Out

Actions? Reactions?

[Quick NOTES - Security, a quick call up from your onboard computer will note that this is the Wellingford Complex, a noted Think Tank group of researchers here in Freedom City. Your CityMap will give an overview of the compound and the buildings. The LAV SC exploded somewhat in the middle of the compound. Most of the buildings are 10-12 stories high, fairly thick (100-150 feet) and are "L" or "H" shaped]

 

[Keia]

As the woman began to fade away, Jimmy squinted his eyes trying to focus and keep her in his memory. "Wait . . . I have questions . . ." he said disappointedly at the end. Then he fully realized the number of strange looking individuals standing or hovering there on the roof.

"Uhmmm, hi?" Jimmy said in a half-question as the explosion rocked the building nearby. Wow, a lot more people here than I thought . . . now what Jimmy thought.

James is wearing a green hooded sweatshirt and green jogging pants that say in bold letters "Florida." He stands about 5'9" 160lbs with black hair and violet eyes.

 

[themaxx]

Winter stands, looks around briefly, peering into the darkness with apparent ease, and then takes a short hop over the edge of the building.

A slight shimmer of yellowish light peeks up from the ledge that Winter recently departed, and looking over one can see an amorphous shape of yellow-green something, floating in the air and heading directly toward the explosion and the blaster fire. As the mass of energy gets closer, moving swifter now, it fades from view, obscured by a darkness just as strange and out of place as the light it was recetly emitting.

Winter closes on the building, creating a small amount of darkness around him so as to hide his rather embarassing form. He also prepares himself for the situation, making sure to keep his eyes and ears keen. Someone important might be in there. I guess I'll just have to immobilize them.

As he approaches, he will periodically switch his senses to those of the surrounding plants, to get a different perspective on the field and to see if there are any he can use to help stop the combat.

 

[Tokiwong]

This is just great... time to act... uhh heroes assemble.. nah to cheezy...

Apollo seeing Winter head for the building, looks to those gathered, "Lets go... we should try and stop the loss of life... and I think it would be behoove us, to not kill anyone... but lets protect the innocent," he adds quickly, "Who needs a lift?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Ursus growls as the woman fades away. "Hey! Wait a minute. Damn it —" And she's gone.

Explosion. Staccato gun fire. Power out. Damn. A blink and his eyes adjust. "If we're going to do this thing, let's do it. I'll take a lift if you're offering. As for protecting the innocent, that's always a nice plan — but who's really innocent?"