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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1394122" data-attributes="member: 13737">The War RoomThe 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-SpotAnother 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 PenthouseMia 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.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. 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.</blockquote>

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