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Epic M&M: Issue 3 (IC)

Freeway
Michelle barks orders and zips into the air. She pushes herself forward much faster than normal to get in range of the plunging police helicopter. She reaches out and surrounds it in a magnetic field just as the air elementals vanish, halting it's spinning plummet some eighty feet off the ground. The sudden halt of motion appears to stun or knock out the pilot and co-pilot, but it's a far better fate than the one they had been about to experience. The crowd beneath it scatters.

The sound of soft clapping comes from your left and above you. You look up to see a man in a dark blue body suit covered in silver glitter. A magnificent cape hangs from his shoulders, silver lined in blue. His hair is slicked back, and he is, quite frankly, beautiful. He smiles at you in a way that tugs your heartstrings and sends your heart fluttering.

"Bravo," he says, his natural smile never faltering. With a flourish, he claps his hands together, pulling them apart to reveal a simple magicians wand. "And not a wire to be seen," he compliments. "But it raises the question; how many can you hold?" He points his wand at a police gunship swooping down from above and intones "Anithos Vindu!" and a swirling beam of sparkling energy springs forth from the wand, striking the gunship. It's forward momentum halts and it starts to plumet the remaining 150 feet towards the freeway.

"And how much weight can you suspend?" an identical voice says to your left. You see another him, identical and equally attractive, producing another wand in exactly the same way. "Anithos Melindu!" he intones, and a swirling beam of sparkling energy sweeps out and strikes the helicopter you are holding. It's weight increases exponentially, straining your powers to their very limits!

"Amazing," the first says at your ability to hold the helicopter. That smile has not left his face and you see a look of respect in his amazing blue eyes. He couldn't possibly be involved with the call from the police; he's probably just testing your abilities.

You are about 80 feet ahead of everyone else, and about 20 feet in the air. The helicopter you are holding is 80 feet above you. The plumetting helicopter is 130 feet above you and about 20 feet in front of you. The two men are about 15 feet to your left and right and 15 feet above you.

Despite his actions, you feel very attracted to him. You are being strongly influenced by his super-charisma. Hubba hubba.

Velmont said:
Who are they? How much? What power? And by the same time, if you want a better coordination between EPIC and the police, let me mimic your knowledge, so I can learn everything about police procedure and tactics. Don't fear, I won't know anything about your personnal life. And for your wounded, if they can hold a few minutes, they will be safe. X can heal them all...

"I don't have anything you need to copy, kid!" he exclaims. "Our blaster rounds are just bouncing off these guys, and anything powerful we have is getting knocked away by that freaky tentacled chick! That furball has claws the size of my forearm and can lift armored cars and throw cruisers around like they were soccer balls, and that flying freak is knocking our ships out of the sky or driving them off with those wind critters he keeps summoning!"

Sure enough, he appears right. One mutant is circling around above a ring of carnage, a whirling force field of wind surrounding him. Energy blasts bounce off it as he sends hordes of foot tall wind creatures at air ships, hover ships and helicopters. Through the ring of crushed and damaged vehicles, you see a woman standing nearly motionless as strange tentacles spring from her, knocking asside blasts, rockets and other weapons. The huge furry creature looks like some sort of gigantic mole, and is carting a third armored vehicle on his back, moving it in line with the other two already lined up on the freeway.

"Holy crap, look at that!" Sergeant Ryan says.

He points over behind you and you spot Michelle catching a helicopter in mid plumet with a powerful and visible magnetic field. A blue garbed man appears next to her and waves at another helicopter, dropping it from the sky as well as an exact copy of him shoots some sort of energy beam at the one Michelle caught. You also see Tara zipping through the sky towards you, Rebound bouncing through the air over traffic and Anna blasting off right at Michelle and the two men near her. You see Carl and Raisa picking their way through the cars and people, towering above everyone, and towering above them is the form of John, striding easily over roofs of cars like a giant.

"B team or not, damn glad the cavalry is here!" Ryan exclaims.

Kevin doesn't see Johan, as he's normal sized.

Initiatives: Flick 24, Mole 19, Aerin 18, Anithos 16, Tara 16, Raisa 16, Kevin 16, Michelle 16, Anna 16, Rebound 16, Johan 14, Straighjacket 10, Carl 7

You are all 20 feet behind Michelle and 100 feet from the SWAT truck where Kevin is. That truck is 20 feet from the outside edge of the clear area (100 feet across, 300 feet long) where the three villains stand. Michelle is 20 feet in the air, with the men by her 10 feet above and 10 feet to her left and right respectively. She has a helicopter suspended 60 feet above that (80 feet from the ground. Another helicopter is plummetting to the ground, is about 150-170 feet up and will crash at the end of next round.

No map this time, like the pool fight. You have a TON of room to maneuver. A sprint will get anyone to the SWAT truck or the edge of the ring. Remember, you lose your dodge bonus if you sprint. Combat will be in order for what Michelle is doing and anyone involved in that, and otherwise initiative order will wait until you are in position.
 

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"I thank you." Johan says as Anna hands him the belt.

As they arrive to the scene, Johan has already created a duplicate of himself. The ready duplicate heads to where he thinks Sergeant Ryan is. Johan himself will start duplicating to the maximum and then proceeds to try and organize the fleeing civilians in some way, so that they can leave the area quickly and orderly.
 

Seeing the situation, Kevin start to run in direction of Michelle and shout.

"Michelle, lower that helicopter! John, catch it when he is at your reach! Michelle, when John have it, catch the other. Tara, Carl, shoot at that guy, I want his attention away from the copters! Now!"

OOC: Kevin will take a double move in direction of Michelle while he give his orders.
 
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Dalamar said:
As they arrive to the scene, Johan has already created a duplicate of himself. The ready duplicate heads to where he thinks Sergeant Ryan is. Johan himself will start duplicating to the maximum and then proceeds to try and organize the fleeing civilians in some way, so that they can leave the area quickly and orderly.

Johan, you find it very disturbing when your duplicates do not have the belt you got from Anna. While they have your uniform and basic gear, the belt simply does not duplicate.

Your full power duplicate makes his way to the truck with everyone else, while your other duplicates run about trying to bring a semblance of order to chaos among the civilians. Amazingly, they respond well to you in your uniform, and people actually gather around you and start moving as you recommend.

Diplomacy check of a natural 20. Chalk another point of good karma up...

Because I made a boo boo in a previous issue, letting you duplicate items you didn't pay for, that's currently how your powers work. HOWEVER, you can spend a hero point to make it work the other way for a single duplicate. Do that twice and you can take a power stunt when you have points available (2 points) that lets you choose to either duplicate with paid for equipment, or picked up equipment, but not both. Seems a cool way to handle it and definitely makes you unique among duplicators. So you could pick up a gun, make a duplicate with your belt, then make a duplicate with the gun.

Also, are you doing the rapid creation of duplicates for the organizational purpose, or spending half actions to make fully functional ones? Up to you. You can also spend a hero point to give your main duplicate the belt if you want, as I said above.
 

Blushing fiercely and flashing the handsome man her most charming smile, Michelle really wants to impress this man so she pushes her powers as far as they can go and attempts to catch the second falling helicopter when it comes into range. Once she has both helicopters, she will lower them to the ground.

(hp used to up energy control to 10 increasing weight capacity to 51,000 lbs)
ooc:would increasing energy control increase the other powers linked to it?

powers: forcefield (free action) energy control: magnetics (half action) flight
 
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Dodging between the panicking people and cars, even going over a few, Raisa moves quickly to position herself beneath the plummeting chopper. Just hope its not heavier than that scaffolding back home...

ACTIONS: Raisa will attempt to catch the chopper if Michelle can't stop it.
 

Freeway
Michelle focusses on her power, solidifying her hold over the suddenly heavier helicopter and pushing her powers past their limits to grab hold of the plumetting gunship a mere thirty feet before it impacts the ground. It jerks to a halt. It's easily the heaviest weight you've ever actually held up. You don't think you could do much more, if any. Shaking a bit, you lower the first helicopter 40 feet downward. It's now 40 feet from the ground. The other helicopter is 30 feet up.

Extra effort boosts magnetic control to +10. Hero point used to combat fatigue. You have this as long as you sustain your your magnetic control, or until an hour passes.

The man's smile never stops, and he never stops watching you. As you lower the helicopter, both of him float downward towards you, and slowly circle you, carefully avoiding breaking your energy projections. One stops right in front of you, collapsing his wand into nothing by pressing it lenghtwise between his palms. He opens his hands as if to show you he isn't hididng it. You feel his hand on yours, from behind.

"Let me help," the one behind you says. You can smell his cologne and feel his breath on your ear as he speaks. "Anithos Enhalas," he speaks softly, and you feel a brief surge of power shiver through your body. It seems much easier for you to maintain this power level.

In front of you, he casually wipes a bead of sweat from your forehead before it falls into your eye, and tucks a loose strand of hair behind your ear before floating back, drawing a finger along your cheek as he does. Behind you, you feel him draw his hand up yours and across your shoulder as he follows himself. They both float to your left. "Amazing," they say in unison, and turn to fly off towards the ring of cars.

Raisa, and everyone, sees Michelle somehow surround the plumetting helicopter in a second bubble of magnetic energy, holding both up and starting to lower the first one to the ground. It is rather startling to see, but not so startling as the men floating near her. Though you can't hear what he's saying, you have eyes and he has to be one of the most amazing specimens of man you have ever seen. If you're female, you get flushed just looking at him. If your male, you would do anything to be an eighth as charismatic as he is. And there are two of them! One of him touches her arm and Michelle glows very briefly. The other touches her face. Then both float away from her, say something, and fly towards the carnage in the Freeway.

You all hear Kevin shouting orders at you and see him now heading towards you, snapping you out of your temporary daze. Kevin, you see an amazingly attractive pair of twin men fly overhead into the ring of carnage.

Michelle gains a hero point. In fact, it's as if your magnetic control power at PL10 isn't even pushing your limit. You can, in fact, use extra effort again on it.

Everyone (including Johan's duplicates thanks to mental link) was affected by his super-charisma. You all are favorably inclined towards him. You must make a will save of DC 15 to take any offensive action on him unless he attacks you specifically. If you are female... it's much, much harder.

NOW we are using initiative. You are all 100 feet from the SWAT truck and 120 feet from the combat area, including Kevin who just made it to you. Michelle, Tara and Anna are 20 feet up.

Initiatives: Flick 24, Mole 19, Aerin 18, Anithos 16, Tara 16, Raisa 16, Kevin 16, Michelle 16, Anna 16, Rebound 16, Johan 14, Straighjacket 10, Carl 7

Tara buzzes up next to Michelle. "Who was that?" she says in a stunned, hushed voice.

Everyone on initiative 16 may go. The bad guys have taken their actions. Cops are ignored because they are unable to affect the mutants. Michelle, you are responsible enough to not be so distracted as to drop the helicopters.
 

John checks to see if Raisa thinks she can handle the falling chopper.

"Raisa you OK with that?"

If she gives the OK he tries to find some sort of tuck or car to stand on to try and reach up for the guy who's dropping choppers. If he can reach him, use accurate attack and get him in a grapple.

If the guy is obviously out of reach, he will try to move on towards ground targets.

buzzard
 
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buzzard said:
If she gives the OK he tries to find some sort of tuck or car to stand on to try and reach up for the guy who's dropping choppers. If he can reach him, use accurate attack and get him in a grapple.

If the guy is obviously out of reach, he will try to move on towards ground targets.
He's definitely in reach, but you honestly can find no good reason to try to hurt him or restrain him. He's so cool, it goes beyond cool. It's super cool. If there was one guy in life you'd want to be like, it'd be him. You also notice Michelle seems to be able to easily handle the helicopters suddenly.

You make your way towards the carnage of the battle ring. Hey! You might catch up with that awesome flying guy again!

You soooo fail your will save to attack him. You got a 9.
 

Now near the group, Kevin looks at Michelle. "Amazing!". He rapidly skae up and looks around. "Where X? Many people are injured... damn, we will need to get them out of there. Raisa, I'll need your power. Trust me, I can handle it."

He touch Raisa

OOC:Extra Effort to gain the Expanded Power extra, and I touch Raisa to gain her power. SPend a HP to not be fatigued.

"I will take care of the wounded! Now where is the original Johan." He saw a Johan with an unusual belt, and take a guess with him and move toward him. "Johan, I need a team of me to take the wounded out of that field..."
 
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