EPIC M&M: Issue 1 (IC)
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Calinon
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Kevin recovers from the mental shock and the high speed spin to the ground, finding himself being helped up by the telepath, Dara, having been unceremoniously left lying among shards of glass and by Vince.
"I can't believe he just left you lying here," she says as she kicks some larger pieces of glass away from you. "Hold still you're cut! Ooo, I hate blood," she says directly to your mind as she holds a cloth napkin to the back of your head. "Oh no, I'm doing it again!" she exclaims telepathically. "Sorry," she says as she helps you to a nearby bench, casting a non-too-impressed glare at Vince as she does.
Michelle and John come downstairs, Cosmo floating in a magnetic field between them. Cosmo has regained consciousness and is struggling against his metalic bonds. "Don't mind me," he says confidently. "I'll let myself out." He executes a twist and flip of sorts, and lands on the floor to the right of the peices of metal that are still floating in the magnetic field. "Thanks for the lift," he says as he saunters towards Grandmother's bench.
Grandmother is sitting next to Sanjay on a bench by an escalator going down to another level. She raps her cane on the floor three times again, grabbing everyone's attention and bringing everyone towards her. In a few minutes everyone is there, Jackal still looming over Anna's wheelchair, acting as an intimidating Chauffeur.
"I'm able to move myself around, jerk. Let go of my chair," Anna says confrontationally.
Jackal snorts in response. "Don't wanna, and you can't make me," he growls.
"Wrong on one count," Anna mutters and clicks a button on a small device in her hand. Jackal howls and clamps his hands over his ears, staggering back and then crashing to his knees.
"Alright, children," she says once everyone is present, ignoring Jackal's discomfort for a very long moment. "Alright, that's enough Anna," she finally says. "Jackal, come here. If you are going to help someone move around, you may as well help me." It takes Jackal several moments to gather his wits before he does as she asks.
"Now, we'll go downstairs and wait for the Mag-Lev. For those of you that haven't seen it, it should be quite a treat. There's an arcade downstairs to keep you occupied while you wait." With Jackal helping her and Pooky running along beside her, Grandmother leads the way downstairs to the Mag-Lev terminal.
The Mag-Lev Terminal
As you enter the terminal, you are greeted to perhaps one of the cleanest places you've ever seen. The floor is almost a mirror, as are the walls. The ceiling is sound insulated tile. Everything is a sterile white. There are maps of the Mag-Lev route and city sites around the terminal, an internet cafe that is open across the terminal and several bank machines and vending machines along the walls. The arcade is to your left. The track for the Mag-Lev enters from the right, and the terminal is a dead end, with the platform circling around the end of the track. There is a gap between the platform and track that is easily twelve feet from any part of the platform.
As you all take in the sight, Michelle walks forward slowly, as if in a daze. Her eyes are fixated on the six foot wide magnetic track twelve feet from the edge of the platform that bisects the circular terminal. It emits a very soft hum. She reaches the edge of the platform before anyone notices her and is floating above the ground, hand reached out towards the track.
Michelle
The controlled magnetic field of the track is perhaps the most amazing thing you have ever experienced. You wonder if you could control it, or maybe even absorb it! If only you could reach it... hmm... it's a good twelve feet away on all sides. But can't you fly?
"I can't believe he just left you lying here," she says as she kicks some larger pieces of glass away from you. "Hold still you're cut! Ooo, I hate blood," she says directly to your mind as she holds a cloth napkin to the back of your head. "Oh no, I'm doing it again!" she exclaims telepathically. "Sorry," she says as she helps you to a nearby bench, casting a non-too-impressed glare at Vince as she does.
Michelle and John come downstairs, Cosmo floating in a magnetic field between them. Cosmo has regained consciousness and is struggling against his metalic bonds. "Don't mind me," he says confidently. "I'll let myself out." He executes a twist and flip of sorts, and lands on the floor to the right of the peices of metal that are still floating in the magnetic field. "Thanks for the lift," he says as he saunters towards Grandmother's bench.
Grandmother is sitting next to Sanjay on a bench by an escalator going down to another level. She raps her cane on the floor three times again, grabbing everyone's attention and bringing everyone towards her. In a few minutes everyone is there, Jackal still looming over Anna's wheelchair, acting as an intimidating Chauffeur.
"I'm able to move myself around, jerk. Let go of my chair," Anna says confrontationally.
Jackal snorts in response. "Don't wanna, and you can't make me," he growls.
"Wrong on one count," Anna mutters and clicks a button on a small device in her hand. Jackal howls and clamps his hands over his ears, staggering back and then crashing to his knees.
"Alright, children," she says once everyone is present, ignoring Jackal's discomfort for a very long moment. "Alright, that's enough Anna," she finally says. "Jackal, come here. If you are going to help someone move around, you may as well help me." It takes Jackal several moments to gather his wits before he does as she asks.
"Now, we'll go downstairs and wait for the Mag-Lev. For those of you that haven't seen it, it should be quite a treat. There's an arcade downstairs to keep you occupied while you wait." With Jackal helping her and Pooky running along beside her, Grandmother leads the way downstairs to the Mag-Lev terminal.
The Mag-Lev Terminal
As you enter the terminal, you are greeted to perhaps one of the cleanest places you've ever seen. The floor is almost a mirror, as are the walls. The ceiling is sound insulated tile. Everything is a sterile white. There are maps of the Mag-Lev route and city sites around the terminal, an internet cafe that is open across the terminal and several bank machines and vending machines along the walls. The arcade is to your left. The track for the Mag-Lev enters from the right, and the terminal is a dead end, with the platform circling around the end of the track. There is a gap between the platform and track that is easily twelve feet from any part of the platform.
As you all take in the sight, Michelle walks forward slowly, as if in a daze. Her eyes are fixated on the six foot wide magnetic track twelve feet from the edge of the platform that bisects the circular terminal. It emits a very soft hum. She reaches the edge of the platform before anyone notices her and is floating above the ground, hand reached out towards the track.
Michelle
The controlled magnetic field of the track is perhaps the most amazing thing you have ever experienced. You wonder if you could control it, or maybe even absorb it! If only you could reach it... hmm... it's a good twelve feet away on all sides. But can't you fly?
Mule
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Calinon said:
Randall's ears perk up when he hears mention of a video arcade. His unnatural manual dexterity allows him to dominate any game. He's spent many hours wasting his day away in arcades across the continent, he can stretch some pocket change a long way. "I'll take any of you on in the arcade, any game of your choice!" he issues an open challenge. He is so excited he doesn't even notice Michelle's trance-like state upon seeing the Mag-Lev.
Calinon said:
Michelle glares at the boy walking away, her anger evident by the floating metal that is slowly compressing into a tiny cube. "What an ass, the next time remind me to entomb him." With a small sigh she lets the cube drop to the floor with a small clang.
Calinon said:
Michelle's anger for Cosmo is all but forgotten as she gets her first look at the at the magnetic track, "It's beautiful" she says to no one in general as she walks up to the edge of the platform. "I can feel it from here, I have to touch it."
The air close to her body ripples as she steps off the platform and starts to float towards the track, unknowning and uncaring whether anyone notices what she is doing. She glides up close to the magnetic field and places her hand within a few millimeters of it feeling the ebb and flow of the power that pulses from the track.
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Agamon
Adventurer
"Pff, games. I have much more important things to do," Sanjay says to no one in particular. He nods a farewell to Grandmother as he gets up and makes his way over to where Raisa is standing. "Hey, señorita, my name's Sanjay. Don't tell me, let me guess...your power is to make everyone around you shorter," he says, looking up at her with a grin.
Deva
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Agamon said:
Raisa smiles at Sanjay and chuckles softly, tossing her backpack and jacket onto a nearby chair. "Something like that." She keeps her sunglasses on and sits down next to her things so he didn't have to crane his neck back to look at her. "I'm Raisa, though most people call me Rai."
She gestures to his silver hair. "Sweet hair. I tried to dye mine gold once, didn't work and ended up neon green for a few weeks. Mama threatened to cut it all off if I tried it again." Raisa leans back in the chair, finally removing her sunglasses and draping her arms over the back. " No offense or anything, but is your skin really metal or does it just look that way?"
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Dalamar
Adventurer
"Somebody might want to stop that girl, whatever her name was. Unless her mutation grants her resistance against magnetic forces, she is about to suffer great pain once the electrons and protons of her form are being pulled to different directions by the magnetic field."
OoC: Take that with a grain of salt, I don't personally know really much about magnetic fields and the forces they generate.
OoC: Take that with a grain of salt, I don't personally know really much about magnetic fields and the forces they generate.
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Mordane76
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Dalamar said:
OOC: The magnetic field itself shouldn't do a whole heck of a lot to her... it's the massive amounts of electricity running through the rails on the Mag-Lev that will leave her with a major headache -- it's a lot like a subway's third, power-supplying rail in theory.
"Trust me, you don't want to do that," X12 says, walking up behind Michelle. "Making suitcases float is one thing, but unless your arm has a resistance value high enough to take being hit by lightning a few times, I'd pull your hand back -- your hair won't ever be the same again, and your complexion won't look good in charred black..."
Agamon
Adventurer
Deva said:
"Well, I'm glad you like it," Sanjay says, motioning to the short-cropped hair on his head, "because, from what I understand, it's staying like that for the rest of my natural life. As for the skin, I dunno. It's kinda like metal," he replies, rapping on the side of his head with his knuckles, *tink, tink*, "but it still sorta acts like skin, too," he adds, pushing his finger into his cheek. He shrugs, "Really, I think in the grand scheme, I was meant to be attached to the top of a life-sized trophy." He raises his arms in a frozen victory pose and goofy grin on his face.
