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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1397829" data-attributes="member: 13737">The G-SpotLoki, seeing Raisa, runs forward and weaves an illusion of a horde of huge spiders swarming up the platform.  Along with the intended effect, it pretty much finishes panicking the crowd, who storm the exits.  You see a creature of inky blackness near Raisa, stabbing her in the arm!  You can't quite tell from here, but you swear you see the form of a small, thin man in the dark form. The effect of the spiders is momentarily successful.  Two bouncers at the base of the stairs panic and start firing at them.  As the bullets pass through them, they see the illusion.  They look around for its source, but don't see you, instead seeing Mendez, Johan and Dara.  Your blending is successful.  Upstairs, Raisa is completely unaffected by the appearance of the spiders.  While the people with her react momentarily, they soon ignore them completely. Unheard by anyone on the bottom floor, Sho asks Raisa, "What is this?  An attack?" "No, just one of Randall's illusions," Raisa answers in a monotone voice. The shadowy figure finishes drawing the blood and tosses the vial to Sho. Detective Mendez wastes no time charging for the stairs.  He moves remarkably well for a big man.  "You two!" he shouts at the guards at the base of the stairs.  "NYPD!  Drop your weapons and lay face down on the floor!" Dara doesn't wait for them to respond, leveling one of the bouncers with a mental blast that sends him dropping to the ground with a blank look, ears and eyes bleeding.  "I got one!" she shouts into your minds. The bouncer at the base of the stairs looks at his pal and drops his gun, lying face down on the floor.  Upstairs, some men, ignoring the spiders, peer over the stairs.  Spotting Mendez, and with the floor clearing rapidly, they open fire.  Mendez takes one shot in the chest, grunting as it hits his armor.  The others go wide. Johan is up. Your girlie show is pretty much over <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Club InitiativeJohan 18, Sho 17, Raisa 17, Loki 16, ?? 13, Mendez 12, Dara 10, Goons 6Inside the Foyer"Good god, more of you?" the manager says, rolling his eyes.  "What, is there a convention?" he asks aloud as X12 and Johan walk in.  "The only explanations were the half-mad ramblings of this... bug-eyed individual," he says, a look of distaste on his face.  "Perhaps one of you better explain yourselves before I am forced to get security to remove you and call the police." Another four security guards emerge from a room past the elevators.  These ones appear well armed.</blockquote>

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