EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Mimic]

Raisa, Michelle and Carl
Carl finishes some notes on a pad of paper and catches up with you. He points to an extremely high priced clothing outlet called "Davinci's". You stand in front of their windows, mouths agape, at both the fine outfits they have and the fact that the lowest price you can see from outside is nearly $1,000.

"We can get you something decent in here. They always have tailors on hand too, so getting something in your size shouldn't be hard to do, Raisa," Carl says.

Whoa, I can't afford anything from this place, maybe we should go somewhere else.

Raisa, Michelle and Carl
You are about to enter the third floor shop when you hear blaster and weapon fire down the mall towards the food court. You look over the nearby railing and see a trio of police officers exit a bank, engaging in a gun battle with oriental gang members. The cops appear to be using stun blasters and the kids automatic blasters.

You see six gang members run past you two stories down (45 feet down), towards the gun battle (not the same as the ones in the food court). You are 45 feet up and a hundred and fifty feet away in a direct line. Taking the nearest stairs would take about three hundred feet in movement.

Michelle will rush into the store and hand her bags to the first clerk she sees. "Can you hold on to these for me for a minute or so? Thanks." Once the clerk has her bags she will rush out side, activating her forcefield as she climbs up on the railing. "Meet me downstairs as fast as you can, let see if we can end this before someone gets hurt." Michelle will lift off from the railing and fly as close as she can to the gun fight, as she does she will active the pager that Ms Desrochers gave them

OCC: Forcefield (free action) Flight (full movement) activating pager (1/2 action)

 

[Calinon]

Bank Gun Fight
Speed Demon 29 (21); Loki 26; Metal Mistress 23; Amazon 16;Tara 11 (1); Police 7; Carl 6; Dara 2 (1); Gang 2 (2)

Restaurant Fight
Split 24 (1); Brock Murphy 24 (2); Multibrain 15; Mia Toan 12 (1); Stealer 12 (2)

Theatre Fight
Split: 24 (1); X12 11 (2); Straightjacket 9; Neutron 6 (1)

Bank Fight
Vince tries to blitz through the crowd to catch up to the six gang members but finds it very tough going. The throng of running people make for a tough obstacle, even with super speed. He uses his wings to help him dive over some people, dodges and rolls and manages to get close enough to be heard when he shouts at the thugs, though he is still in a throng of people. Two of them turn around, leveling automatic blasters at the crowd and Vince. The thugs are just past the food court entrance, 40 feet from Vincent.

Movement will be hard for the first two rounds and is limited to 1/4 forward movement against the crowd,, or normal full movement with the crowd. A successful acrobatics check (DC 15) will let you make a full turn half-move action (30' for most, 70' for Vince). Flight ignores this movement penalty.

Vince got a 21 acrobatics check. Next up is Loki.

Restaurant Fight
Mister Murphy groans and rolls over. It appears he's wearing an armored vest under his shirt! The leader by him shoots him again in the chest, but Murphy stands up, unphased. By the door, the sword wielding Split leaps forward and slashes at Stealer with both glowing swords. "You get no additional powers from him, Red Rose lapdog!"

Split attacks with his sword, getting a 21. Kevin rolls his damage saves and gets a 17 and a 12 (one save against the sword, one against the swords energy field). Do you want to re-roll one of those?

Everyone, please, set numbers you will use re-rolls on for damage saves during your actions to speed things up.

Gun and grenade toting Split draws his weapon swiftly and fires three shots at Johan, one at each of him. Johan is hit in the chest by a blast and is stunned. Despite both duplicates appearing unhurt, they both vanish as Johan flies backward twenty feet into the buffet, loses his focus and clutches his burned chest.

Split attacks Johan and scores a 16 versus the real Johan and 24 versus duplicate 1 and 20 versus duplicate 2. Johan gets damage save of 3, duplicate one gets a 20 and duplicate two gets a 21. I will assume you use your re-roll on your damage save. The re-roll becomes result is 13 and Johan takes one stun hit and is stunned.

The female version of Split handsprings forward and kicks Johan in the chest hard enough to move the buffet table back a few feet. Johan groans and slumps to the ground, winded. "Stay down if you know what's good for you," she says.

The female Split hits with a 16. Johan's save is a 12, resulting in another stun hit and another stun condition. Since you can't be really stunned, you are prone and stunned.

Murphy roars to his feet and spins, punching the nearby Split in the face. He smears the duplicate's nose across his face and shatters his jaw and that instance of Split winks out of existance.

Murphy hits with a 29. Split gets a 10 on his damage save and takes a hit. Being a minion, he vanishes. Multibrain spends his action recovering from being stunned, but is still prone.

Mia throws her hands out and an explosion of light errupts at the doorway. Despite it being insanely bright, neither Stealer or Multibrain are affected. All three versions of split recoil from the blast, two appearing to have lingering effects.

Mia hits Split with a dazzle burst. It's radius is enough to fill the restaurant. The sword toting Split gets a 25 save and is unaffected; the others get a 14 and 13 respectively and are blinded.

Stealer is up and likely wants to change his action. He is now 30 feet from Johan and the non-blinded Split is beside him.

Theatre Fight
Split fires at Neutron before X12 can move to cover him and hits him in the head. The shot rings off his forehead.

Split shoots Neutron and hits with a 27. Neutron gets a 23 on his damage save and is completely unaffected. Also to note, Protection is a permanent power unless the base power it is derived off of is eliminated, so you really don't need to protect Neutron

X12 grabs Neutron and pulls him back behind the corner leading into the theatre they just left, providing full cover for both of them. He notices Neutron was not hurt at all. Meanwhile, John grows, cracking his head on the nine foot ceilings. He moves forward and stretches his arms out to grapple Split. He gets a hold of him, but Split manages to push him back slightly and evade the grapple.

Straightjacket gets an 8. Yes, an 8. Way to go 1 rolls. I make the wild assumption you want to re-roll that bad boy. You get a re-rolled score of 25, initiating an opposed grapple check. You get 22 (5+17) and Split gets 27 (18+9), breaking free of the grapple.

Neutron is up.

I will try to get maps up tonight, but will be busy, so they may not be up until tomorrow night.

 

[Mordane76]

"Well... I guess it's good to know that I'm not the only one that can withstand gunfire around here," X12 chuckles to Neutron as he peeks around the corner at Split. "If you can lay down some kind of cover fire for me, I'll see if I close in on him and at least bring one of them down -- we need as few of that duplicating bastard around as possible."

 

[Calinon]

Bank Fight
Loki, seeing he needs to close range to be effective, dives through the surging crowd.

You make your full turn move, getting 30' closer. You have a 35' range on your illusions I think (will look it up tomorrow).

Down the hall, out of sight of those in the food court, Michelle lifts off the ground and flies down towards the nearby gunfight, well above the six other gang members. She clicks the button on the pager as she does so.

Woo hoo! Points for Michelle for remembering the pager! Amazon is up next.

Condition Update
Johan: 2S, Stunned, Prone, 1HP used

 

[Calinon]

Maps are up. Hopefully they aren't confusing.

 

[Deva]

Woo hoo! Points for Michelle for remembering the pager! Amazon is up next.

"Oh hell no, this is not happening!" Raisa growls as she looks down on the goings on bellow. "Could this day get any worse?"

She quickly stuffs her purchase into her backpack and slings both arms through it. She sighs and looks to Carl. "This is so going to hurt if I miss. See you down there if you're coming."

Using the railing she will vault herself up and over, making sure to avoid Michelle on her way down, and will attempt to grab onto the second floor railing as she falls to control her descent from the third floor. (And yes, all while still wearing her school uniform skirt.)


(POWERS: Acrobatics 5)

 

[Dalamar]

Spending HP to unstun and then form a duplicate. Real one will ready an action to dodge an attack, while the duplicate will try to get to the grenade-having Split and try to pull the socket from one of the grenades hoping Kevin will either move away or can take the blast.

OoC: Damage saves will be rerolled on a roll of 10 or less

 

[buzzard]

Theatre Fight
Split fires at Neutron before X12 can move to cover him and hits him in the head. The shot rings off his forehead.

Split shoots Neutron and hits with a 27. Neutron gets a 23 on his damage save and is completely unaffected. Also to note, Protection is a permanent power unless the base power it is derived off of is eliminated, so you really don't need to protect Neutron

X12 grabs Neutron and pulls him back behind the corner leading into the theatre they just left, providing full cover for both of them. He notices Neutron was not hurt at all. Meanwhile, John grows, cracking his head on the nine foot ceilings. He moves forward and stretches his arms out to grapple Split. He gets a hold of him, but Split manages to push him back slightly and evade the grapple.

Straightjacket gets an 8. Yes, an 8. Way to go 1 rolls. I make the wild assumption you want to re-roll that bad boy. You get a re-rolled score of 25, initiating an opposed grapple check. You get 22 (5+17) and Split gets 27 (18+9), breaking free of the grapple.

Neutron is up.

I will try to get maps up tonight, but will be busy, so they may not be up until tomorrow night.

When Jon goes again, he will again atempt a grapple.
"Hey you weasel, come back here!"


buzzard

 

[Velmont]

I will reroll any saved under 15. And one duplicate or another, I will try to mimic Split... in hope I don't have a too great backlash.

 

[Calinon]

Restaurant Fight

Spending HP to unstun and then form a duplicate. Real one will ready an action to dodge an attack, while the duplicate will try to get to the grenade-having Split and try to pull the socket from one of the grenades hoping Kevin will either move away or can take the blast.

Nope, you are not able to do this. Here's why.

Split attacks Johan and scores a 16 versus the real Johan and 24 versus duplicate 1 and 20 versus duplicate 2. Johan gets damage save of 3, duplicate one gets a 20 and duplicate two gets a 21. I will assume you use your re-roll on your damage save. The re-roll becomes result is 13 and Johan takes one stun hit and is stunned.

If you didn't use your re-roll to re-roll the 1 you got, you would be knocked out (not dying like I had typed here originally), something you really don't want to be. Being stunned prevents you from sustaining powers as well, but you'll get your powers back in round two.

Kevin is both cut and burned by the slash of the energy covered sword, but rolls with the hits and reaches for Split. Split leans back and knocks Kevin's hand away.

Kevin re-rolls his damage save, avoiding getting stunned with a 17 score. He tries to touch Split, and gets an 18, missing, but just barely.

Bank Fight
Raisa leaps down. She doesn't get her grab at the railing, but when she hits the floor she rolls with the momentum. Her landing is not quiet, but among the other noise, isn't heard and she moves up, giving chase to the thugs.

Successful acrobatics check; protection handled the rest.

Out of the corner of her eye, Raisa sees Carl suddenly drop through the second floor walkway beside her. As he runs along, she sees a force field of vibrating energy spring into being about him.

In the food court, Tara leaps into the air, wings thrumming and flys towards the gang members. Dara picks her way slowly forward.

By the bank, the cops shoot at the two remaining gang members, but miss badly. A bystander is struck by one blast and held in a stun field.

The gang members return fire on the police, but once again the armor stops any harm. Two gang members run at the cops, swords drawn. The four gang members in the food court turn as one and cut loose with automatic weapons into the crowd at Vincent.

All four gang members fire twice, at -2, but it doesn't matter! They need natural 20's to hit! They get 10, 19, 9, 18, 13, 4, 23 and 23 (natural 20's, on the last two no less). Vincent is hit twice and rolls a 20 and a 24 damage save. Vince re-rolls the 20 save, which succeeds without a dice roll.

While only two strike Vincent, the effect on the crowd is worse as stun blasts knock half a dozen nearby people flying. One hits a baby held by a mother, and the other hits the mother. Vincent manages to turn at the last possible moment, and the blasts hit his leathery wings, not even causing him discomfort.

Neutron steps out around X12 and hurls a green energy bolt at the ground beneath Split. The carpet beneath him turns to gas and rises up around Split's legs, then immediately hardents into steel. Split manages to leap up and grab hold of an overhead light fixture, pulling himself out of the way an instant before the gas turns to steel.

Neutron manages to make a successful attack, but Split makes his save to avoid the snare.