EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Velmont]

Crystal Palace Penthouse
"Pathetic? Manipulated! Psychopath!?" Mia Toan screams, slapping you hard enough make your ears ring. In anger, she pulls a chain nearby and it stretches your arms out until you hear a pop. "When I'm through, you'll beg me to kill you," she hisses at you. "Did that hurt?"

"You know you can do better, baby!" say Kevin with a big smile.

"Did you hear that? They are already here for you. A bit more loyal than you expected? Maybe you do have some friends." She sighs and pulls out her sword. "That means our time will have to be cut short." She leaps up onto the table, straddling you, and slices down with her sword. You feel the blades edge draw across your skin after cutting through your shirt. She reaches down and rips the remnants of your shirt off. Looking down, you can see a welt from neck to waist down the center of your torso, but she never broke the flesh.

Kevin start to laugh. "Raisa? She wasn't even there at the mall when Split was there. She has no chance to have a clue about me here. Anyone else, I don't say, but Raisa..." and he continue to laugh. "I love to see how blind you are, lovely girl!"

"Gawd I'm good," she says, hopping down. She walks down to the head of the table and punches you in the side of the face, snapping your head to the side. "And I'm nobody's pawn!" she shrieks suddenly at you. "You EPIC brats interfering may cost me my ransom for Raynes, but I'll make it up with blood samples. Control me? Hah! Now lets play."

"Continue like that, and I'll die because I laugh too much. So, explain me why you are doing Split's job now?"

She puts her fingers on your temples and you start to feel strange.

Kevin laughing start to fade as the feeling grow. He try first to mimic Mia and then try to have one hand loose.

 

[Deva]

With every pinch, every grope, Raisa bites back the urge to turn around and tear off the hands that dares touch her. In a matter of seconds, her brilliant idea had not only dimmed but she began to question the sanity of splitting up from Carl. She was so totally out of her element.... Way to go Rai. When are you going to learn that smarts aren't your best assest. Stick to what you're good at, being the brainless muscle.

As she moves the the throngs of men she finally began to understand the reasoning behind the legends and myths of the ancient Amazons. Men were only good for one thing, and with modern medicine and technology the way it was, even that was debatable. D'Oiropatas, literally translating to Man Killers, took on a whole new meaning for her as she finally made her way through the crowd and approached the stairs.

"You, are a stripper?" one asks.

"You are out of your element here, woman," the other says.

Neither seem inclined to let you up the stairs.

She smooths out the satin of the boustier, and rans a hand over her dishevelled hair. Body, not brains..."I may not be yet, but I hope to be." Raisa giggles playfully, twisting a piece of hair around her finger, and smiles innocently at the two men. "See, I was told to come here and see Tommy G about an audition, see if he thought I had what it takes to maybe one day dance for him, and the oriental guy outside said I was to come here and go upstsairs, and these are the only stairs I could find so here I am!" She swallows the urge to bash their heads together and giggles again. "But if you don't want me to go up there, that's ok. Can you tell Mr. G that I was here at least and why I left? K? Thanks!"

 

[Elementor]

Trying to hide a smirk, Michelle will walk up to the detective and take the data pad and attempt to download the map onto it (computers: 12 electronics: 12)
Here detective, let me try. This might be a lucky break for us, Mrs Raynes might be with whoever Kevin is with.

Yeah this thing doesnt look too hard. Vince will attempt to assist Michele in discovering how to use the item.

 

[Dalamar]

If the two can't get the thing working, Johan will take a crack at it.

 

[Calinon]

The War Room
The download from exceedingly high teck and high capacity computer to electronic data organizer proves more difficult than you thought. The first problem turns out to be finding a patch cord as the wireless data ports are not compatable. Luckily Vincent manages to find some in a drawer nearby. Between Johan and Michelle, they manage to compress the data and manage to get it downloaded into the pad.

DC 30, becomes DC 25 with the proper patch cord after a successful DC 15 search by Vince. Michelle ends up assiting Johan, and they succeed.

As they do that, Mendez accesses the main computer, leading you to realize how much trust the man has been given by the EPIC members. You see him access a vehicles directory and an interesting looking hover van. He highlights the van and types something on a keyboard. Over the van, a box pulses that says "En route."

He takes the pad without a word and accesses the map. "Great, that'll do it. Lets roll, before your friends get in any trouble."

He leads you all outside where a black hover van is now floating by the van you arrived in. It's streamlined and appears armored. EPIC is emblazoned across the hood and sides, and across the back doors. "Hop in," Mendez says. "I have to get my gear from my van."

He climbs in the driver seat a few moments later, and you see an armored vest under his suit jacket as he puts a shotgun into a holder beside him. A female voice speaks as he closes the door.

"Welcome, Detective Mendez," it says as the controls adjust themselves to him. "Have you put on weight?"

He grumbles slightly and nails the accellerator, and the van lurches off, lights flashing and siren screaming, roaring towards the gates. It's a white knuckled ride. Even Vince is impressed with the speed, especially when Mendez sends the van careening off the raised Interstate before the exit, using the van's jets to effect a successful, if bumpy, landing on a downtown street. You hear cars screech to a halt around you as the van suddenly appears in their midst. Moments later, the van slides to a halt outside the Crystal Palace Apartments. You see a gentleman's club called the G-Spot takes up the bottom floor of the building, and has a huge line-up outside.

"Gather round," Mendez says as he looks at the map. Those looking over his shoulder see him home in on Kevin's signal. A second later, it stops. "Crap!" he exclaims, looking up. He looks unsure a moment, as if arguing with himself. He flips through the map, finding both Raisa and Carl. It appears they are both in the strip-club!

"Screw procedure. Randall, Johan and Dara, you are with me. We'll get Raisa and Carl. Everyone else, get to Kevin in the penthouse! Mrs. Raynes is likely in there too, so be careful!" he orders as he heads for the strip-club. "And stay in communication!" he calls back, turning and pointing to his EPIC symbol on his chest armor.

The G-Spot
Another two bouncers is standing behind you when you turn around.

"You must think we are stupid, girl," a guard behind Raisa says. "Lee already told us why you were here," he says. You figure Lee must be the door man. "Search her," he says. The two bouncers do just that, patting you down for anything dangerous. One rifles through your purse. He hands it back to you, nods to the man who was talking, and the two new bouncers simply walk off.

"Alright, lets go," he says, leading you up the stairs, his partner behind you. You notice another pair of bouncers take up position at the stairs when they leave.

You get to the second level and see a table of high class people of oriental heritage sitting at a table. At the back of the table, a beautiful woman sits, clinging to the arm of an Italian man in a fine suit. The man has a vacant stare and no expression on his face. Both escorting guards stop at the top of the stairs. You walk towards the table. Behind the table is an extremely dark alcove stretching five feet to either side of the table. A quick count gives you 10 people in front of you, including the Italian and the oriental woman, and at least 2 behind you, but you have a feeling the darkness is not empty.

"Hello," the woman says kindly. You notice a transparent screen up here is keeping most of the noise of downstairs out. "Say hello, Tommy."

The Italian man's expression doesn't change, but he drones, "Hello, Tommy."

"Isn't he sweet," the woman says, all kindness gone from her voice. "I think you lost something, Raisa Da Cruz," she says icily. Carl suddenly falls out of the darkness, hitting the floor with a thud, shivering. A figure composed wholly of darkness walks from the darkened alcove, handing a vial of blood to the woman who drops it in a metal cyllinder.

"I wonder what is so important about this blood?" she muses calmly. "Not that it matters. Money is money." The cylinder has five lights that beging to glow. Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, red.

"Well, it's not Whisper's blood. How about yours?" she asks, a feral grin on her face. She snaps her fingers and all the men around the table stand up, the shadowed individual flowing around the room and out of your sight, even though you were watching him. "I suggest you submit. You are far outmatched here."

Crystal Palace Penthouse
Mia shivers and releases you as she feels your power invade her. "Sneaky boy. Did you get what you wanted?" she asks, unconcerned. Something rattles on the ground as she steps on the the remnants of your shirt.

"What's this?" Mia says, picking it up. "Oh, how wonderful! A tracking device!" As she examines the device you realize is your pager, you try to figure out what her powers you mimced are.

It seems to be able to amplify and dull the senses of whoever is affected, to extreme levels. You don't think you can use them on yourself, but only on others. You get a sick feeling as you realize this is why the room seems brighter, sounds muffled and your sense of touch has been amplified to the extreme. Your head starts to hurt as you gain the knowledge and you realize you cannot hold all the power. You groan as your brain feels like its on fire.

Backlash. Damage save is 19, successful. You gain the follwoing feats, and powers at your mimic rank.

Feats: Attack finesse, dodge, improved initiative.

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Powers: Alter Senses - touch (flaw: others only, extra: sight, extra: hearing, extra: taste/smell)

You can affect the senses, either positively or negatively, of a person you touch. You continue to affect the senses until you stop sustaining the power.

Touch
You may make the target immune to pain up to your power rank. All lethal hits are treated as stun hits, while stun hits are completely ignored. In addition, damage save DC's are reduced by the power rank. Once the power wears off, the target makes a DC10 plus hits that would have been taken without this power damage save and is affected as if it were a normal damage save.

You may enhance the target's sense of touch to painful levels. The level of all damage done to the target is increased by the power level while under this effect.

Sight
You may enhance the targets vision to super-human limits, granting him telescopic sight, darkvision, all-around vision, penetrating vision, truesight or the ability to see invisible, one benefit at a time. The target also gains a benefit to sight based spot checks

You may reduce the target's vision, rendering him completely blind as if affected by a dazzle at the power rank.

Hearing
You may enhance the targets hearing to super-human levels, granting him ultra-hearing, radio-hearing, blind sight, bonus' to spot checks revolving around hearing, one at a time. The target also gains a benefit to hearing based spot checks.

You may completely deafen a person as if affected by a dazzle at the power rank.

Scent and taste
You may enhance the targets sense of smell to super-human levels, giving him scent (super), immunity to gaseous poisons and a bonus to scent based spot checks, all at once. You may enhance the targets sense of taste granting him the ability to sense nearby creatures (spot) like a serpent, and granting him the ability to detect poison without injesting it.

You may render a target completely inable to smell, as if affected by a dazzle at the power rank. You may render a target completely inable to taste, as if affected by a dazzle at the power rank.
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Mia comes over and from a height of about a foot, drops the small pager onto your chest. It feels as if she drove her fist into you! You are barely recovering when she does just that, slamming her fist into the pager, shattering it on your chest. You thrash in agony, freeing your arms just before you pass out. You wake up a few short minutes later. You blink your eyes and find you are completely and totally blind and are lying on the painfully cold floor.

The pager hits you, and you roll a 12 damage save against DC 18. You are stunned. She waits for you to recover and hits the pager as hard as she can. You get a 15 against DC 26 and are rendered unconscious. While you were out, she blinded you. Your hearing is no longer muffled, but you are still suffering from ehanced touch effect.

"Now, what was that crack about doing that low-life Split's dirty work?" You hear her sword pull from its sheath with a metallic ring.

 

[Velmont]

The taste of blood can be feel in his mouth. He spits some blood on the ground.

"My dear Mia, you don't mind I call you Mia, we are so close of each other now... well, it wasn't the first time I had met Split at the mall. We already have meet each other."

Kevin cough and spit more blood.

"You are using me as a lure. Well, you may be right, those stupid EPIC will fall in the trap to save me. They are do-gooder after all, they are too much predictible, they cannot let die a young fool like me to the fate he should recieve."

Kevin take a deep breath, and the sound of blood in the lung can be easily heard.

"Second time today I suffer for you, my dear. I must really love you!" and Kevin smile.

"But I lost myself, and you are not the type of girl who like to lose her time. Am I right? You want to know know what is Split's dirty work? You know I can learn a bit more than simply powers with my power." Kevin smiles and wait a moment, and try to hear where she is and to hear her reaction.

 

[Dalamar]

As soon as they come out of the van, Johan creates two full-power duplicates of himself to accompany the others while he himself and one more duplicate follow Mendez, Randall and Dara to the club.

 

[Mimic]

"Screw procedure. Randall, Johan and Dara, you are with me. We'll get Raisa and Carl. Everyone else, get to Kevin in the penthouse! Mrs. Raynes is likely in there too, so be careful!" he orders as he heads for the strip-club. "And stay in communication!" he calls back, turning and pointing to his EPIC symbol on his chest armor.

All right, lets do this. Sanjay can you make a steel platform about 10 feet by 10 feet, thick enough to hold at least a half a dozen of us? Vince, you are the fastest, go up the stairs and try to distract them, everyone who can fly go up and wait for Vince's distraction. When that happens hit them fast and hard, anyone who can't fly you are welcome to get a lift from me or I guess you can take the stairs.

Once we are in, saving Mrs. Raynes is the top priority, if anyone sees her, let one of the flyers know and they will get her out. Any questions?

(OOC I am assuming that everyone has a least a basic understanding of what Mrs. Raynes looks like)

 

[Calinon]

Outside
Cosmo pipes up, with a smirk on his face and shaking his head. "How about if we can't fly, we take that?"

He points at a descending elevator visible from the side of the building, moving easily four times faster than any of you could fly.

"I think I'd prefer to be firmly planted in case you lose concentration levitating a metal brick," he says, amazing you by not actually insulting your idea as bad, just not wanting to die a horrible messy death from a long plunge. "But I think you're right. Those that can fly should. Vince can run up the stairs and the rest of us slowpokes can take the elevator."

Yes, you can assume you all know what Mrs. Raynes looks like now.

 

[Deva]

"You must think we are stupid, girl," a guard behind Raisa says.

"Well, what do you expect? You certainly look it." She replies sweetly, though her heart thunders inside her chest.

She follows the men up the stairs, not that she really has much of a choice, glancing back into the club one last time hoping to see Carl in the crowd. She didn't.

Upstairs Raisa fights to keep calm, wracking her brain for any possibly scenario in which things wouldn't be as bad as they were turning out to be. It was suppose to be simple. Get the information, help Carl's brother, get back to the school. Unfortunately, things seem to never go as planned in this country.

"Hello," the woman says kindly. You notice a transparent screen up here is keeping most of the noise of downstairs out. "Say hello, Tommy."

The Italian man's expression doesn't change, but he drones, "Hello, Tommy."

"Nice trick, could have used that with my last boyfriend." Raisa says sarcastically, already doing the math in her head. Twelve against one, not exactly good odds, but at most five or six at a time could get anywhere near her. If getting shot at barely slowed her down, she could probably keep them busy until Carl figured out where she was.

"I think you lost something, Raisa Da Cruz," she says icily. Carl suddenly falls out of the darkness, hitting the floor with a thud, shivering. A figure composed wholly of darkness walks from the darkened alcove, handing a vial of blood to the woman who drops it in a metal cyllinder.

Raisa finally crumbles, her face paling noticeably. "Meu deus..." Okay, now this is beyond bad!

Her mind barely registers what the woman is saying and her eyes will not move from Carl's form on the floor. Reality was beginning to sink in that no one knew where they were and trouble was now rearing its ugly head.

"Well, it's not Whisper's blood. How about yours?" she asks, a feral grin on her face. She snaps her fingers and all the men around the table stand up, the shadowed individual flowing around the room and out of your sight, even though you were watching him. "I suggest you submit. You are far outmatched here."

The triumphant tone of the woman's voice brings Raisa from her thoughts and back to the situation at hand. She looks to the woman with one of those expressions that only teenagers can make. "You want me to let you stick me and take some of my blood? Been there, done that, ain't doing it again! I don't know what you've been smoking, mèl, but I'm fifteen years old. Like I'm going to do anything you say!"


Doubting if it would work or not, Raisa still moves to one knee quickly and drives her fist against the floor.


ACTIONS: Shockwave, full force, and hopefully it works and her first doesn't just go through the floor.