EPIC M&M: Issue 1 (IC)

[Agamon]

Sanjay can't help but laugh as Jackal slams into the wall. "Actually," he says, responding to Grandmother, "I wasn't trying to contain, just dissuade. Wolfboy, there, has a harder head then I thought though...luckily for him." He chuckles again. Momentarily glancing in amusement to Rai, he continues to watch the engagement, not currently interested in taking sides.

 

[Mordane76]

"I won't fight you," X12 says, tensing for action, "but I also won't let you just use me for a chew-toy."

OOC: Stepping so I can see both brothers in (at least) my peripheral vision, I will go into total defense.

 

[Calinon]

"I won't fight you," X12 says, tensing for action, "but I also won't let you just use me for a chew-toy."

OOC: Stepping so I can see both brothers in (at least) my peripheral vision, I will go into total defense.

X12 turns hoping to be able to watch both brothers, but can't see Cosmo. He turns fully to find Cosmo still on the ground unconscious. He gets a confused look on his face, then realization hits him that he was duped.

OOC: X12 fails his sense motive check against Jackal's bluff, losing his dodge bonus next round as he recovers. Sorry, couldn't let on it was just a bluff

Round 2
Initiative: Pooky 24; Cosmo 19; Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; Stealer 17; MM 16; Rebound 12; Jackal 11; Amazon 10; X12 5; Johan 1

Currently, Rebound is standing nearest the brick wall created by Neutron. Pooky is atop it. Straightjacket is about 10' from Rebound, and another 10' (pretty much a straight line) from Jackal's back. X12 is between Jackal and the still unconscious Cosmo, trying to recover from Jackal's trickery. Neutron and Amazon stand about twenty feet to the left of Jackal. Grandmother is a few feet behind them sitting on a bench. Stealer is near the bottom of the stairs with Johan, about 30' past Jackal.

Pooky looks down from the wall at Straightjacket and Rebound and lets out a bark. A visible cone of some sort of force extends down and envelops the pair. The two start to slow down.

OOC: Pooky's bark triggers a time-stoppage. Rebound fails his saving throw and freezes in time momentarily. Straightjacket gets a score of 14 on his WILL save (die roll of 15). Do you want to use a hero point to re-roll?

With Neutron staying neutral, and assuming Stealer isn't going to leap in to interfere, Straightjacket will be next, followed by MM.

The Arcade
Most of the games were rapidly taken. The head to head space combat simulator is free though, probably because it costs $2 a game. The holographic imaging is incredible, and it's just begging to be played.

 

[Mule]

"Played it, played it, played it...." Randall is nosing through the arcade looking for a game that interest him. When he spots the 3-D space combat simulator he shouts out over the noise of the crowd, "Hey speedy!" looking at Vince, "Check that sucker out! You ready to lose?" Randall hustles over to the machine, eager to play.

OOC: very subtle hinting there Calinon... heh

 

[buzzard]

n.

OOC: Pooky's bark triggers a time-stoppage. Rebound fails his saving throw and freezes in time momentarily. Straightjacket gets a score of 14 on his WILL save (die roll of 15). Do you want to use a hero point to re-roll?

Nah, A 15 is a pretty good roll.

buzzard

 

[Mimic]

"Interesting that grandma hasn't stopped this yet, maybe she is watching our combat skills or something." Michelle mutters to herself.

The air close around her ripples as she raises her arm and a variety of chairs, tables and other assorted metal objects floats up in response, she makes a small pointing gesture towards Jackel and the objects hurl themselves at the hopefully unsupecting mutant.

If I can just pin him down with this stuff this fight can be over with. She thinks to herself

(OOC: Going for a takedown, swarm him with the objects and keep him pinned with the magnetic control. Plus not ripping out terminals from the floor or anything like that, trying for no structural damage. If there is no easily gotten metal she will attack with an energy blast)

Regardless of what happens she will rise up close to the ceiling.

OOC: Activate force field +8 (free action), Energy Control: magnetics(half action), Activate flight (half action)

 

[Velmont]

Mimic Power: Loki

OOC: Sorry for my silence. I hope it won`t stay like that for long. I should have a connection in the next two days and come see the game each day after that.

Back in time a bit...

From the airport terminal, all the time, Kevin was taking care of his wound. He seems he didn't take what had happen and prefer to stay in his corner.

When Cosmo get the hit from rebound, Kevin quickly laugh. "What a team!" But the action start to grow fastly and he starts to be a bit confused.

Holding his action up to now, he exclamate to grandmother: "Easy to say, all I have is Loki powers, and they are more usefull out of combat, except..."

Kevin shout: "Jackal, move to the side!"

Kevin try the power of Loki, creating another Jackal image. It will appear on Jackal and move on the other side, so Rebound may be a bit confuse for a moment seeig double, giving Jackal an opportunity.

Concentrating to give some real life to the illusion, Kevin ask to Grandmother: "Does Jackal can see in the dark?"

 

[Calinon]

Back to the battle
Initiative: Pooky 24; Cosmo 19; Neutron 19; Straightjacket 18; Stealer 17; MM 16; Rebound 12; Jackal 11; Amazon 10; X12 5; Johan 1

Straighjacket
You invoke your growth, now towering over Jackal, and prepare to engulf him.

Everyone Else
Straightjacket freezes in mid growth, obviously briefly trapped by the time altering cone.

OOC: Straightjacket, from your point of view, there is no pause and don't worry, it's a harmless effect.

A second image of Jackal appears beside the original, and it become exceedingly hard to tell the two apart.

The air around Michelle ripples and a clear sphere of magnetic energy surrounds her and she rises into the air. She extends her arms forward towards a metal laticework table and chairs outside the cafe, and they rise slightly on a wave of magnetic energy. She throws her arms towards Jackal and the furniture hurtles at him. A chair strikes Jackal in the side and he kicks the table away. The second chair whizzes through the illusionary Jackal, crashing to the floor nearby.

OOC: Michelle scores a hit against Jackal with her trip attack, having correctly guessed which was the real one, and Jackal takes a stun hit from the impact, but manages to keep his feet. The fake Jackal is still there after a momentary disruption, giving Jackal partial cover from ranged attacks. Michelle is now about 20' in the air, near the stairs. Rebound is up next, but loses his round of action in the vortex.

Grandmother chuckles as Stealer creates the image. "Very well done, Kevin, but I think you forgot that our Jackal has a bloody nose right now. As for seeing in the dark, that's for you to determine, not me, deary."

Jackal ignores Michelle and with a *snick* unfurles his claws again. With a quick slash, he's reduces X12's shirt back to shreds, moments before attempting to throw him to the ground atop Cosmo by hooking his leg behind X12's and shoving, hard! X12 realizes the tactic is to make him come into skin-to-skin contact with Cosmo and heal his unconsciousness.

OOC: Jackal has been paying attention to the power descriptions of everyone. He shreds the back of X12's shirt without even scratching X12 at all, then attempts a trip of his own! X12 makes his sense motive check to determine what Jackal is planning. Jackal scores the initial hit easily thanks to his cleverness of last round, and now the two engage in opposed rolls. If X12 loses, Cosmo may just be waking up!

Jackal will use a hero-point to re-roll the opposed check if he rolls less than 15. X12, you have a score (die roll + strenth modifier) of 18. Do you want to use a hero point to re-roll?

After X12 decides, Amazon is up.

 

[Calinon]

Posting on behalf of Elementor who's computer is el deado...

"Give up Randy! You're goin' down faster than I can run from here to Venezuela!" he says zipping to the simulator. "You realize this will look as fast as grass growing to me, right? I mean, heck, I'll pay to watch you lose!" he says, dropping four bucks into the machine. "I just hope the controls on this thing can keep up."

 

[Mordane76]

OOC - No, I won't reroll... I can't do much better than that.