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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1296123" data-attributes="member: 13737">LokiAs you say that, the man heading towards the front, and Grandmother you have now determined, shimmers and a second one of him appears walking back towards you.  In his hand is a gun of some sort, and he's raising it at you.  As Vince moves towards Grandmother, the man splits again, and the third one of him cleverly trips Vince to the ground.  Vince looks a little confused. VinceYou move towards Grandmother and start to bring your powers up.  You have an odd feeling in your stomach and can't seem to make them work.  In fact, your wings feel very heavy too and rather useless.  You miss your next step and trip to the ground heavily. EveryoneYou see Vince trip unexpectedly and Randall's eyes are rather wide with surprise.  Grandmother is getting up to find out what is wrong when a man appears next to her.  He pushes a device into her neck, and electricity surrounds her, knocking her out!  Pooky ends up twitching on the ground, also unconscious from the effect, and Jackal cries out and slams into the nearby window, cracking it, stunned. On the heels of this surprising event, three circular sections of the ceiling vanish and three perfect metal spheres drop through from above.  When they land, they unravel, forming three robotic soldiers.  X12 recognizes them as African MK192 Series battle-bots.   X12, you have a extremely bad feeling about this and images begin to flash through your mind painfully in bursts. The robotic soldiers look formidable.  Three armored individuals run down the stairs, two with blasters trained on various people, one with weapons holstered and a case in hand.  Behind the last person, another robot floats down, reminiscent of the robotic assistants used in blood doner clinics. "Nobody moves and nobody gets hurt," the man who knocked out Grandmother says calmly.  You notice the steward and stewardess have weapons drawn as well, aparently part of this assault force.  "We just need a few blood samples and we'll be on our way." Behind the man, the pilots door has slipped quietly open.  The pilot sneaks up and puts a gun to the back of the mans head.  "Drop your wea..." is all he gets out before the man kicks back and slams the pilot into the wall.  A twin of the man appears next to Randall, turns and shoots the man.  Blood sprays back across the wall and nearby windows as a laser takes the pilot through the head. "Nobody moves and nobody gets hurt," the man repeats. You notice both the stewards look rather horrified at the pilot's death.  The woman looks particularly shaken, unable to hold her stun blaster steadily.  The man with the case follows the robot towards the nearest person, Michelle. OOC:  Like nobody saw that coming... The assault force managed, however, to surprise you, allowing them to get into place and have prepared attacks.  Worst yet, many of you have tried reflexively to activate your powers, and found them unavailable.  Loki, X12 and Multibrain know they still have their powers available.  Speed Demon is prone, but unhurt.  If anyone wants to do something, initiatives are as follows: Initiatives:  Loki 26, Enemy leader 24, Speed Demon 22 (prone), Cosmo 22, MM 16, Amazon 15, MK192's 15, X12 14 (dazed -2 to actions), Soldiers 14, Stealer 12, Straightjacket 12, Carl 12, Jackal 11 (stunned), Anna 6, Multibrain 4, Neutron 3 Please remember that they have attacks readied, in case you do try anything, but with the exception of the Leader's twin, most seem to be using standard stun blasters.  Even the robots appear equipped with stun blasters.  (6 of 9 of you make spot checks for this, go figure!)  The robots would be reminiscent of the star wars rolling combat droids from episode 1.  Amazon and Multibrain see a strange logo on the shoulder of the soldiers.   MERC.</blockquote>

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