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Curtains Ch.04 - Shell Games

Fate briefly considered using his intangibility to hit them from behind, but soon realizes that Soundtrack's zone of silence might accidentally catch him and render him almost powerless. He decides to line up behind the first wave.

Soundtrack muffles the sound on the door and Granite crashes through. Granite clears most of the way through the large gemology lab and toward the corner around which the safe is located. Lawrence, in swarm form, enters moments behind Granite, scurrying along the ceiling and walls. Soundtrack makes one last effort to subdue the trumpet-like fanfare of his own aura, and then charges in alongside Danko. Fate floats in last, using a little elevation to survey the scene.

At the front of the safe, which just is visible from this side of the room, a single man is kneeling on the floor, cutting away at the bottom of the safe with a torch. Rounding the side of the safe is another man, dressed in a fine charcoal grey suit and wearing a fedora. He looks up in surprise and holds his (empty) hands out in a gesture for the group to stop. He's trying to say something, but it's lost in Soundtrack's area of silence.

Granite immediately recognizes the man in the Fedora as Abram Schott, the demon hunter he met in the bottom of an old coal mine only a few weeks back. Fate is pretty certain that's who the man is as well, though he's going only by old photos that were dug up during the group's research on the guy. Lawrence cannot identify him from his angle on the ceiling (hat's brim is blocking the way) and the other two probably don't know enough about him to make a connection to the group's previous activities.

Granite, the closest to Schott, can kinda read his lips to make out something along the lines of, "No, wait!"


*****

You still have a surprise round from here.
Initiative order:
Tarentula 22
Fate 18
Soundtrack 16
Granite 11
Kombat 6
 

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Tarentula will go on the first man he can, and if he doesn't recognize him, will not even hesitate to snare him into a cocoon of web.
 

Feeling the rush of adrenaline as he enters the room, the Russian executes a simple straight kick to the first opponent he sees.

OOC: I assume he Boosts right before he enters. Array is in Enhanced Attack/Defense
 

Soundtrack will using his assessment ability to see if his musical score gives him some hint about who will be the greatest mis-match for his powers. He will start with an opening salvo of a sound blast at that person of automatic gunfire, hoping to both damage his opponent and make some sort of psychological attack as well.

(I don't know how to do your fancy OOC thing, but, Rybaer you said I still had a few points to play with...do I have an area attack? It didn't seem like it...can I fashion an effective one from the points I have left?)
 

cuervo96 said:
(I don't know how to do your fancy OOC thing, but, Rybaer you said I still had a few points to play with...do I have an area attack? It didn't seem like it...can I fashion an effective one from the points I have left?)


ooc - You do have an area attack already: Alternate: Sonic Control (Blast) 5 [Extra: Area 25’rad]. The only catch at the moment, however, is that you just layed down an area of superpowered silence over the bad guys... You'll have to either drop that, or overcome your own power in order to affect anyone with your own sonic attacks.

And while you do have 1pp remaining to spend, I won't allow you to pick up a power in the middle of a scene. :) You can use a hero point (you have 3 of them) to get a short-term alternate power of your Sonic control that you don't normally have. For example, you could project a blast of sound so strong that you physically propel objects away from you. This would cost a hero point to acquire Telekinesis as an alternate power of Sonic control, but as a one-shot deal. As long as what you're trying to do fits with your character concept, I'm pretty accomodating.

Still waiting to get actions for Fate and Granite...the only two who know the man in the fedora...then we'll get actions resolved.
 

Rybaer said:
Granite, the closest to Schott, can kinda read his lips to make out something along the lines of, "No, wait!"


"Son of a..." Granite thinks to himself as he sees Schott.

"Whoa, whoa. Everyone hang on a minute. What the hell are you doing here?" He asks the man bluntly.
 

Tarentula scurries across the ceiling toward the two visible men. As he approaches, he also notices a few other guys further around behind the safe...all looking confused at the sudden unnatural silence that has smothered the area. Tarentula drops like rain upon the closest man, dressed in what looks like a janitor's overalls. The man (silently) drops the cutting torch and is almost immediately engulfed in a cocoon of spider webbing.

Fate is trying to figure out what Schott's involvement could possibly imply.

Soundtrack's soundtrack immediately derails, going from bold brass fanfare to something akin to a record needle sliding wildly across the vinyl. It immediately conveys to the entire group (except Tarentula who is in the zone of silence) that something is amiss and the situation is probably not shaping up into the anticipated battle. (ooc - holding your attack based on changed circumstances)

Granite calls out to the others to hold up as he clearly recognizes the man in the suit. Schott, however, is motioning that he can't hear anything. Schott also looks a little surprised to see the guy next to him cocooned, though he doesn't act as if he finds Tarentula's proximity threatening. Schott makes no move toward or away from the group.

Kombat feels his body rippling with supernatural power and reflexes. It's all he can do to reign it in for the moment to figure out what is going on.

*****

ooc - Everyone aside from Tarentula still can act in this round. Because of the change in the soundtrack's precog and Granite's recognition of Schott, I'm assuming some of the proposed actions may want to be held.
 

Danko's body visibly quakes a bit as he checks his attack. The consumate soldier he stands fast though his entire body is geared for attack. A thousand white hot pins and needles lance throughout his body lighting his nerve endings afire. The only balm would be to attack, but he holds...for now.
 

Still intangible, Fate looked to Granite for confirmation. "Granite, is this the hunter you spoke of before." Fate was rather confident that it was but wanted to be certain.

OOC: Full defend.
 

Keia said:
Still intangible, Fate looked to Granite for confirmation. "Granite, is this the hunter you spoke of before." Fate was rather confident that it was but wanted to be certain.

Granite nods in confirmation without letting his eyes leave Abram Schott, the self-proclaimed demon hunter he'd encountered in the abandoned coal mine a few weeks back.

Soundtrack, are you leaving the zone of silence up, or will you allow them to speak?

(ooc...just trying to move things along.)
 

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