Epic M&M: Issue 4 (IC)

[Calinon]

China
Li brings you your (non-capitalized) gi's, simple white outfits, though the back has a detailed embroidery of intertwined chinese dragons on it. They fit each of you perfectly and come with suitable undergarments. Once you are all changed, she leads you to a pair of dojo's, directing you into the right hand one.

The dojo appears just as you'd expect in a movie. The unpadded hardwood floor is clean and worn smooth. Various targets and weapon racks are about the room. Master when sits on across from the door as you enter.

"Welcome to dojo. Please sit," he says, indicating places in front of him.

"Dojo rules very simple. Never strike to hurt others. No strikes with power to head or groin. Always listen to Master Wen so none get hurt. Never fake injury. Treat all injury carefully and stop if someone hurt. Everyone understand? Good!"

"Today, we test ability. Then Master Wen make up training regement for each of you. Now, on feet!" he says and despite his years, he leaps to his feet spryly. "Each take staff," he says, indicating a weapon rack. "You exert only as far as you comfortable. When you feel you cannot go more, you tell Master Wen and sit on wall."

And thus does the most rigorous morning of training you have ever experienced, begin, with Master Wen never flagging in stamina. There are very small breaks for water, but nothing substantial until mid day. In the end, only X12 remains on his feet, and even he looks right out of gas. Master Wen, on the other hand, doesn't even look winded.

"Good. All do very good. I go make training schedule for each of you now. You go eat. Take rest of day to do classwork in main house. Once done, you can explore compound. Not leave compound please. Master Wen must speak with mayor of village tomorrow. You do very good," you hear him saying as he leaves the dojo.

"I will prepare dinner," Li says. "Please, refresh yourselves in the bath houses and come to the main house when you are ready." She heads into the main house.

You are all currently exhausted.

 

[Dalamar]

Johan duplicates himself, and then takes a swipe at Stryke's duplicate. He also tells his studying duplicate to check what ARIS has to tell on the situation, as well as on Stryke's powers.

 

[Agamon]

"My power plant," she says, drawing her finger around her stomach. "I guess it can, but not me," she says as lightning dances around her finger. "Cosmo whined about it lots, but I was doing that on purpose.

"My body works the same as always, just with some benefits. I don't gotta eat or drink as long as I can absorb some electrical energy, and I don't sweat either. I kinda spark. And I can give off little jolts, see in the dark, um... that's about it. I'm not really up to your and the others' level really," she says with a sigh.

"Luckily, you aren't after me for my powers," she says, sliding forward to press up to you in one quick move. "Right?" she says, face less than an inch from yours. Before you can even react, she stands up and heads off.

"Come on, sport. I'm in the mood for some hot-tubbing," she says with a bit of a giggle, obviously enjoying herself immensely.

"Yeah, hurting Cosmo isn't necessarily a bad thing," Sanjay says with a smirk.

"Hot tub sounds good," he says, following her.

 

[Elementor]

Vince

The split on the ground kicks your tail aside as he rolls to his feet, shooting at you twice with his rifle. One blast nearly takes you in the tail and another whips by your ear.

Miss miss.

Vince is up.

"It sucks that you are just a duplicate. Send your main self a message for me." Getting quickly to his feet, Vince dashes up to Split and will Mach One him through the roof.

 

[Velmont]

Mimic: Johan (Powers, Feats)

He wants to kill us?

Thinks Kevin when he get out of the Dojo. When Li offer to make the dinner and suggest to go to the bath house, Kevin don't wait a moment, and walk to his room, where he takes a book for his study and go to the bathhouse. Kevin duplicate, using Johan powers. Kevin enters the bath and start to relax, while his duplicate take the book and start to read the book, transmitting with his telepatic powers all that he reads.

How to take good time and work at the same time. I knew Johan powers would be usefull.

Kevin relax, half asleep, half-listening the thoughts of his duplicate, who reads the book and complain with a small comment at every paragraph.

 

[Mordane76]

"I will prepare dinner," Li says. "Please, refresh yourselves in the bath houses and come to the main house when you are ready." She heads into the main house.

X12 bows to Master Wen as he leaves the dojo, then follows after the group. "Dinner will be greatly appreciated, as will a shower." He bows to Li, then heads off to the bath-house.

 

[Calinon]

EPIC HQ
Vince
You close the distance and punch at Split. The sound of the punch shakes the windows in the cabinets around the infirmary and Split staggers backwards and vanishes. He doesn't answer Vince's bravado. The nurse groans on the floor weakly.

Attack roll of 7 (12). HP used for re-roll and the result is a 19 (24), hitting. Split gets a damage save (DC 19) of 7, and vanishes as he collapses backwards.

Initiative: Vincent 27 (2HP), Split 16 (wherever they are)

Vince is up.

Johan and Michelle
A duplicate walks out of Johan and Johan chops at Stryke's duplicate with the edge of his hand. The duplicate ducks and takes a quick step to her left, avoiding the blow.

Attack roll of 1 (automatic miss).

Split comes up shooting from his brief roll away from Michelle's blast. Blasts whip by Michelle. Two impact Michelle's force field, and another goes high.

Attack scores of 20, 13 and 15. Michelle gets damage saves of 15 (17) and 3 (5). Hero point used to re-roll and the result is 20 (22). Both saves are successful.

Tara gets to her feat and leaps to land just beside Johan. Hoppy bounds in and lands behind the original Stryke, snapping his mandibles at her ankle, biting through the armor and drawing a line of blood and a curse from Stryke.

Tara leaps 50 feet. Hoppy moves and attacks, getting a natural 20 to hit Stryke. Strike fails her damage save and takes another lethal hit.

Stryke kicks hard at Hoppy, and the resulting crunch can't be a good thing. Hoppy goes spinning off, slamming into the wall of the school and leaving a green trail of slime as it slides down the wall. Stryke touches her hand to her headpiece, says "Understood," and vanishes.

Stryke got a natural 20. Hoppy gets an 8 on the damage save. Tara's HP used to re-roll. Result is 18. Hoppy is knocked out.

Stryke's double does not vanish. She returns Johan's chop twice, both hits ringing off his armor, causing no damage. The blows seem to have been far weaker than you expected.

Strike misses with a 12 and an 11.

Initiatives: Stryke 22 (3L), Michelle 18 (1L, 1HP), Johan 17 (1HP), Split 16, Tara 15 (1L, 2HP), Hoppy 11 (KO), Anna 8 (KO)

Michelle and Johan are up.

 

[Calinon]

China
Carl is already in one of the baths when Kevin arrives. As soon as Kevin duplicates and starts relaxing as his double does the work, Carl snorts and quickly leaves with a disgusted look on his face.

As he leaves, he passes X12 as he is heading in. "Doesn't take long for him to turn an opportunity into a joke. Looks like he stole Johan's powers before we left and is using them to be as lazy as usual. Probably whining and complaining to himself as he does it too," he says as he stalks back to the bunkhouse.

BTW... go back and read the description of the bathhouses... no showers are available

 

[Mimic]

Stryke 22 (3L), Michelle 18 (1L, 1HP), Johan 17 (1HP), Split 16, Tara 15 (1L, 2HP), Hoppy 11 (KO), Anna 8 (KO).

"No toys for you if you can't play nice with them." Michelle mutters as she attempts to magnetically rip the machine gun from Split's hands. At the same time she will send a wave of magnetic energy at him, hopefully taking him by surprise. (Use a re-roll on the attack if its less then 15)

Powers: Forcefield (free action), energy control magetics (half action), energy blast (half action) <heroic surge>

 

[Dalamar]

Johan makes another duplicate of his own, and then he takes a swing at Stryke's duplicate. His previous duplicate tries to spot where the actual Stryke is, since judging by the lack of a light show she is still around.