EPIC M&M: Issue 1 (IC)

[Calinon]

Cosmo hears X12 and Johan and sees Michelle float out towards the track. He grabs Rebound by the arm and drags him to the edge of the platform quickly.

"Dolts," he mutters. "Hope you inflate fast," he says, then shoves Rebound into the drop-off beneath the track. Twin beams of black energy shoot from Cosmo's eyes and strike Michelle in the back. Michelle suddenly blinks, finds herself barely an inch away from grabbing the track, then screams and falls straight down, landing on Rebound and bouncing off him and into X12, bowling X12 over and landing heavily on him.

OOC: Michelle fails her will save versus Cosmo's Neutralization power, rendering her temporarily without powers.

Jackson (Rebound) climbs up a lader shortly after, looking right ticked off. He storms up to Cosmo, who is now standing over X12 and Michelle, spins him around by the shoulder and clobbers him in the jaw, knocking Cosmo cold.

"You could have killed me, you dick," he says. Cosmo, naturally, drools on the tile floor in response.

Everyone in the area hears Jackal let out a howl and sees him charge at Rebound, in hybrid form.

 

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"You could have killed me, you dick," he says. Cosmo, naturally, drools on the tile floor in response.

Everyone in the area hears Jackal let out a howl and sees him charge at Rebound, in hybrid form.

John is going to try to wrap him up before he can get to Rebound.

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[Agamon]

Sanjay, hearing the howl, turns to see Jackal charging Rebound. "Oh, for crying out loud. Everyone here has become such fast friends..."

If he can react fast enough, Neutron will use Transmutation +7 to put up a 10' high, 15' wide, 5' thick brick wall in front of Rebound, between him and Jackal.

 

[Mordane76]

Michelle suddenly blinks, finds herself barely an inch away from grabbing the track, then screams and falls straight down, landing on Rebound and bouncing off him and into X12, bowling X12 over and landing heavily on him.

"Well," X12 says, pushing Michelle unceremoniously, yet not roughly off of him, "at least I'm good for something today."


Standing up, X12 preps to head over to Jackson just as Jackal pipes off and shifts forms. He pauses a moment, then steps as though to place himself between Jackson and Jackal. "Let your genius of a brother fight his own battles when he wakes up. He might be a complete and totally abusive jerk, with little regard for potential consequences, but he did have an incredibly intelligent and resourceful idea, considering."

 

[Dalamar]

"Indeed, that was an intelligent idea, even if he did execute it in an unacceptable manner."
Saying that, Johan pulls out his notebook again and makes notes of what happened. Sometimes he wonders why he does it when he hasn't forgotten a single thing so far...

 

[Calinon]

The Fight

Initiatives: Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; MM 16 (no power); Rebound 12; Jackal 11; X12 5

Jackal charges with a feral howl, knocking several surprised teens aside. About ten feet from Rebound, a brick wall suddenly materializes in his path. "Your illusions won't work on me!" he shouts moments before there is a loud smack as he hits the very solid, and non-illusionary, brick wall.

OOC: Jackal believes Loki to be responsible for the wall and hits it full force, suffering a stun hit and ending his charge. He still has a half action remaining.

To Sanjay's right, Grandmother can be clearly heard saying, "Well done Sanjay. Contain the danger. But I don't think it was completely effective."

Her words prove true enough as Jackal recovers immediately and leaps the brick barrier with relative ease, landing nimbly and unfurling six inch long claws from each hand. "Ok, maybe it wasn't an illusion," he growls, a bruise showing over his right canine eye and blood trickling from his snout.

"No claws, child," Grandmother calls calmly.

"Right, sorry Grandma," Jackal says, his claws vanishing as John begins to stretch, attempting to engulf Jackal.

OOC: John stretches quickly around Jackal, getting a total score of 18 in the grappling attempt. Do you want to use a hero point to re-roll?

 

[buzzard]

The Fight


OOC: John stretches quickly around Jackal, getting a total score of 18 in the grappling attempt. Do you want to use a hero point to re-roll?

Since that's already an 11 on the die, I'll keep it.

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[Mimic]

Having no powers Michelle will get out of the way of the upcoming fight.

 

[Calinon]

OOC: It's actually a 10 dice roll; you have +7 in melee, and another +1 when grappling. Growth hadn't been activated yet.

The Fight continues

Initiatives: Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; MM 16 (no power); Rebound 12; Jackal 11; X12 5

Straightjacket appears to have a hold of Jackal when Jackal vanishes and a four legged Jackal suddenly twists and weaves his way free of the entangling form of the wrestler. A short second later, Jackal is back in hybrid form, five feet behind Straightjacket.

Michelle quickly steps away from the battle, putting thirty feet between her and the combat as Jackal leaps forward towards X12, ending up a mere five feet away from X12, and only ten feet from Rebound. Rebound inflates, expanding to a ten foot round ball, and with a sound not unlike a basketball, bursts into bouncing motion, ricocheting off the ceiling above X12 and impacting hard into Jackal. His momentum carries him careening past Straightjacket and into Neutron's wall.

OOC: Rebound uses power attack and attempts to slam Jackal, using a hero point if the dice roll is under 15. He rolls a 3, hero-point used and gets a 20 total. Jackal fails his damage save by 6 and is stunned, taking one stun damage, and spends a hero point to shake off the stunned condition.

Michelle feels her powers rapidly returning and thinks she should be back to full power momentarily (at the start of next combat round).

"Nicely done Jackson," says Grandmother. "But you need to work on the exit from that attack."

What was that?
Raisa, Johan, Kevin and X12 hear Grandmother say quite quietly, "Go help Jackal, Pooky." Raisa and Kevin see Pooky wag his tail and vanish. Neutron notices Grandmother's dog appear atop the brick wall he created.

The Arcade
Vince and Randall, along with a number of other students, have rushed to the arcade. It is an amazing room, about 50' x 30', filled with loud sounds and flashing lights of holographic video games. A 3D head to head space combat simulator is in the center of the room, begging to be played. The sounds are loud enough, once you add the sounds of teens playing the games, that none of you notice the battle going on outside.

Back to the combat...
Jackal is only feet in front of X12, crouched down and ready to attack. He looks behind X12 and towards the floor, and his lips curl into a feral grin. X12, you have a very bad feeling that Cosmo was not as badly hurt as you believed by Rebound.

OOC: X12, it is your turn. Anyone else aside from those in the arcade, who want in on the battle, can post their actions or wait patiently for their turn. Next round initiatives are as follows, should people want to engage:

Pooky 24; Cosmo 19; Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; Stealer 17; MM 16; Rebound 12; Jackal 11; Amazon 10; X12 5; Johan 1 (ouch)

 

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Pooky 24; Cosmo 19; Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; Stealer 17; MM 16; Rebound 12; Jackal 11; Amazon 10; X12 5; Johan 1 (ouch)

I imagine I'll try to wrap him up again. If the shapechange will get him free, I'll try to stretch and completely englobe him so there isn't a way out (call it a pin maybe).

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