EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Calinon]

Round 5

Bank / Restaurant Fight
Jackal 29 (1); Speed Demon 29 (2); Loki 26; Split 24 (1); Metal Mistress 23; Amazon 16; Empath 15 (1); Multibrain 15 (2); Cosmo 14, Stealer 12; Tara 11 (1); Police 7; Carl 6; Dara 2 (1); Gang 2 (2)

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

Restaurant Fight
Those nearest the restaurant hear Cosmo trying to calm down Jackal. "Hey bro, calm down. It's just you and me here. Just relax." The answering roar leaves little doubt to the effect of the conversation. Mere moments later, Cosmo smashes through the doors of restaurant, backwards. He lands heavily on his back, shakes his head and kips up to his feet, his now-shredded shirt falling apart to the ground. "That could have gone better," he says aloud as he removes the remnants of his hsirt and assumes a battle ready stance.

Jackal shakes off his stun (1HP) smokes his brother (22 hit), stunning him (15 save) and sending him flying out the glass doors of the restaurant. Cosmo spends a HP to unstun immediately.

Vincent drags the dying or dead gang member out into the hall, shouting "A little help here!" The head of the boy hangs to the side, eyes open, looking very much dead. Vincent sets him down and runs towards Split, hoping someone tends to the kid.

You all hear the sounds of sirens and those near the food court or doors can see a small fleet of police vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances pulling up to the mall.

Loki is up.

Theatre Fight
Laziness made me not draw the foyer of the theatre. Split simply had run out the main doors of the theatre. The foyer itself is all glass. Your fight is pretty much over. Split escaped. Um... well, one of him.

The crowd is pretty tightly packed now, in fact, you see a few cameras going off and a news crew is just pulling up outside. There is the sound of a large static discharge in the hall you just exited that draws your attention. You step back and look around the corner and the smell of crispy human flesh assails you. The Split Neutron nuked lies in the hall, smoke rising from the body. He's groaning slightly.

You barely have time to digest this when the media comes in. A female reporter and her cameraman set up just outside and start filming, directed by a boy you recognize as the cashier who you paid for the movie.

"Tanya Lieberman reporting for MSNBC here at the Metropolitan Mall, where in addition to reported carnage in the food courts, gunfire has erupted in the Famous Players Theatre. Several EPIC students appear involved but it is unclear as of yet what has happened. I'll try to get some comments here." She elbows her way through the crowd with her cameraman and steps up infront of the trio. "What happened here? Does anyone have a commen... oh my god! Rod, get a shot of that!" she exclaims as she sees the body in the hall. The cameraman definitely gets it. "What happened here?" she repeats, waving her microphone around for comments.

Just then the Bond movie must have finished, as your schoolmates all exit the theatre laughing and talking until they see the reporters, the horde of people and the smoking body at which point they fall silent and look unsure of what to do.

Condition Summary
Multibrain: 2S, 1HP used
Stealer: 5L, 2HP used
Murphy: 3S, 2VP used
Vincent: 1HP used
Split: 2L, 1S, 1VP used
Female Split: 1S, 1VP used
Jackal: 1S, 2HP used
Straightjacket: 1L, 1HP
Speed Demon: 2HP
Tara: Stunned by power, 2HP
Metal Mistress: 1HP
Female Cop: KO, 1VP
Cosmo: 1L, 1HP

 

[Mule]

Vincent sets him down and runs towards Split

"Vince! Come over here and help me with these injured people! I think I should hide that lovable face of yours again!" Loki hopes Vince can hear him.

There are probably some 40 odd injured people around, many stunned from gunfire, some from trampling.

Wether Vince joins him or not, Loki will turn back to the injured shoppers, doing his best to make them comfortable, and calming their fears. "Help is coming. Don't worry. You'll be fine." If Vince does help out, Loki will recreate the illusionay mask.

 

[Mordane76]

"You're probably the most normal-looking of us, Neutron," X12 whispers to Sanjay. "Maybe you ought to field the questions."

X12 slides back into the theater hallway, and calls over to the other students as he moves towards the fallen Split. "Damage control, guys -- get in between the camera and the body, so they don't have anymore shots of it for news. Can any of you scramble their transmissions?"

OOC: Not sure how badly the body got smoked... but I want to take a look at it -- Search it for anything that might be useful later in tracking these buggers.

 

[Calinon]

Theatre
"Freedom of the press, kiddo. If anyone fries the camera or its disk, you'll be seeing the inside of a court room so fast your head will spin. And I have tons of witnesses too," the reporter says, gesturing to the crowd as she and the camerman move right into the hallway. The other students for the most part look ill, especially when X12 starts searching the still breathing, groaning body, disregarding his wounds. "So which of you set this guy on fire? Who is he? Why did you attack him? Was there anyone else involved? Has anyone called the paramedics?"

Other reporters with holo-cameras have pushed through the crowd, seemingly just appearing, setting off a barrage of flash bulbs and shouting similar questions out. Siren's approach from outside, and you see a pair of police cruisers and an EMS unit pull up outside the theatre.

"I can just make up the story and let the pictures speak for themselves you know," the reporter says. "I'm sure you'll all come off as the good guys," she says with a bit of innuendo, but not subtle enough for any of you to miss her meaning.

For the record, Neutron does not look normal, what with his metal hair. The most normal looking one would be a normal sized Straightjacket, but right now, it's X12. Plus he's the one talking. Also, in case you missed it in my sarcasm and in the last update, the Split on the floor is NOT DEAD, just really really REALLY badly hurt.

Food Court
Loki tries to calm people who are injured or scared, but isn't making much headway, instead deciding to try to staunch the bleeding of the kid with the severed hand. It's gross and vile, and he's lost a lot of blood, but he's definitely the worst off. In fact, you can see the people the gang members had shot earlier stirring, and they look relatively unhurt, even the baby who is crying near his mother.

Split shoots Empath in the chest, but her force field shimmers and wards off the blow. His female counterpart drops and foot sweeps Empath, knocking her to the ground. Both leap over her, grabbing the ropes. "You can thank EPIC for this screw-up, Mister Anders. Call me if you want my further help, but it'll cost you big," Split calls to the man by the bank. "Retrieve, now!" Split shouts into his headset as they attach clamps to their harnesses, and the ropes yank them, and the two cops, straight up out of the mall, just about into the hovership above. The ship itself leans forward and starts accellerating away.

Split hits with an 18, but Empath makes her save with a 15. The trip attack was successful.

Michelle flies upwards and gets a parting shot in, sending an energy blast snaking through the roof at the people on the lines. The blast goes wide, striking the hull of the hover ship and causing a huge shower of sparks. The engines struggle for a second, but then roar back to life and the ship moves out of her visiion.

Michelle misses, but barely, striking the ship itself. The ship makes its hardness check, also barely, and she very nearly took it down!

Raisa runs to close the distance, making it near to Empath as the smoke is disapating.

When Johan asks for the blaster, the gun wielding texan turns both weapons on him. "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers, hoss. Take a walk."

Empath kips up (kind of an amazing thing to see from a woman in skin tight leathers wearing high heeled boots), and curses in french. She sees Stealer draw a bead with guns on Johan, and sees a half naked Cosmo (top half) running into the restaurant, and runs over towards the restaurant to help.

HP for double move, sprinting.

Cosmo runs into the restaurant, straight at Jackal. "You want to play, bro? Well, lets play!" he exclaims and delivers a kick to the throat of his brother. The beastial Jackal staggers back, and lets out a roar, unaffected. "Oh crap," Cosmo says.

Cosmo hits with a natural 20 and Jackal makes his save with a 27.

Stealer looks kind of confused as he discovers he has no control over his doubles. He can't even absorb them! The texan one continues to keep his guns drawn on Johan warningly, though doesn't actually look like he wants to shoot him, more like it's a gut reaction to taking his guns. He's eyeing inside the restaurant at Jackal cautiously as well.

The maniacal, tank-buster-weilding Stealer looks wild eyed at the oncoming Empath. "Look out! Split's comin'! Man... I'd like to stuff and mount her," he mumbles as he pulls the trigger. The energy beam crashes into Empath's force field, and a good portion ekes through, slamming her in the side. She amazingly keeps her feet, and rolls enough to the side to avoid getting pinned by the beam.

Stealer hits with a 22. Empath fails her save with an 18 and takes 1L hit.

"Don't worry, I'll get her next shot!" he exclaims with an insane grin.

"Kevin! Control him or get rid of him!" Empath shouts angrily as she continues to advance.

Raisa, Carl, Tara and Dara both look up the hole created in the ceiling. "Wow," says Carl. "They really wanted to get away."

"I'll say," says Dara. "Bet Vince gets blamed for the mess."

The man by the bank storms over to the four, either oblivious to the carnage or uncaring. "What the hell is wrong with you people! Split would have saved her if you hadn't interfered! It was my only chance to save her! Now they'll probably kill my wife and it's all your fault!

Michelle, you recognize him easily as Martin Raynes, husband to billionairre philanthropist Martha Raynes, a nationally renownd person whose donations keep dozens of children help organizations, including more than one mutant assistance organization, funded. In fact, much of the training you underwent before coming here was paid for by her, or so you have been told. Carl also seems to recognize him (as will anyone from the NAA), and lets out a quiet, "Aw crap."

It looks like a full swat team is gathering outside behind a pair of armored vehicles. Several news vans are outside as well now. It looks like the cops are nearly ready to enter.

Start of Next Round
Initiatives
Jackal 29 (1); Speed Demon 29 (2); Loki 26; Metal Mistress 23; Amazon 16; Empath 15 (1); Multibrain 15 (2); Cosmo 14, Stealer 12; Tara 11 (1); Carl 6; Dara 2; Police 1 (just to be simple)

Jackal is obviously out of control. He grabs hold of Cosmo and carries him in a charge outside, slamming him into a support pillar. The pillar is cracked by the impact and Cosmo slumps over, unconscious. Blood drips from his mouth onto Jackals' shoulder and Jackal tosses him away like a rag doll, setting his sights on the nearby and oncoming Empath.

Everyone can see this happen, and pretty much the same thought goes through everyone's mind, but Vincent. If the press sees him in this state, it's going to be way worse than any story about Vincent. Vincent thinks, "I'm so not getting blamed now!"

Jackal hits and wins the grapple check, and carries Cosmo out to slam him into the pillar. Cosmo badly (very badly) fails his damage save.

I'll update the mall map tonight.

Condition Summary
Multibrain: 2S, 1HP used
Stealer: 5L, 2HP used
Murphy: 3S, 2VP used
Vincent: 1HP used
Jackal: 2HP used
Straightjacket: 1L, 1HP
Speed Demon: 2HP
Tara: 2HP
Metal Mistress: 1HP
Cosmo: 2L, 1HP, KO
Empath: 1L, 1HP

 

[Dalamar]

"I'm sorry, it was not my intention to offend you."
Johan takes a step back from the texasian.
"Kevin, would you mind using that instant relocation move that we have seen Split use? I believe we do not wish one of our instructors seriously injured or even possibly dead."

 

[Mimic]

Michelle, you recognize him easily as Martin Raynes, husband to billionairre philanthropist Martha Raynes, a nationally renownd person whose donations keep dozens of children help organizations, including more than one mutant assistance organization, funded. In fact, much of the training you underwent before coming here was paid for by her, or so you have been told.

"Oh no..." Michelle says to herself, rubbing her forehead with her hand.

Everyone can see this happen, and pretty much the same thought goes through everyone's mind, but Vincent. If the press sees him in this state, it's going to be way worse than any story about Vincent. Vincent thinks, "I'm so not getting blamed now!"

Michelle consentrates on sending her thoughts to Dara.

"Dara, I hope you can hear this, get the others to stall the press and the cops, we need to calm Jackel down before he hurts someone and we are probably going to need your help doing it."

Regardless whether Dara recieved the message Michelle will sprint down the corridor towards Jackel.

Powers: Flight (full action -sprint) Forcefield (free action)

 

[Velmont]

"I will try something" Kevin say to Johan.

Kevin will try to teleport to to the dual blaster Kevin. If he is successfull, he will shoot his tank-buster duplicate and become invisible.

 

[Deva]

Jackal is obviously out of control. He grabs hold of Cosmo and carries him in a charge outside, slamming him into a support pillar. The pillar is cracked by the impact and Cosmo slumps over, unconscious. Blood drips from his mouth onto Jackals' shoulder and Jackal tosses him away like a rag doll, setting his sights on the nearby and oncoming Empath.

Raisa's mouth drops open. "Meus deus! This'll be bad..." She drops her bag and runs into the area.

ACTIONS: Once again just running toward the action... I hate being slow moving.

 

[Elementor]

Seeing Jackal in a rampage and Empath on the scene, Speed Demon runs up beside her. "What the hell is going on??!! Where is X? We've..... I've..... hurt some people pretty bad back there. Jackal. JACKAL you pathetic whelp get off your brother!!! What'd he do touch your pink bunny??!!"

Maintain Superspeed. 65' move puts me right beside Empath. Holding my attack for Jackal. If he makes an aggressive action towards me or any other epic member within my reach he gets a Mach One Punch.

ooc:Vince is not attacking outright in case Empath can stop Jackal but if she can't Vince hopes to be his target. Although Vince doubts he can take Jackal on, he pretty much figures that he is harder to hit than most and no one else deserves to get beat up more than him right now. Some serious guilt happening.

 

[Mule]

Loki tries to calm people who are injured or scared, but isn't making much headway, instead deciding to try to staunch the bleeding of the kid with the severed hand

Randall will look around to see if he can help anymore of the wounded. If not, he will stay with the maimed gangmember (Stumpy).