Epic M&M: Issue 4 (IC)

[Calinon]

EPIC HQ
Johan and Michelle
Michelle enters into a tug of war with Split, and pull the gun from his grasp. The gun flips upwards towards you.

Opposed roll is 10 (20) versus 17, and the gun flips up at you.

She follows this up with a blast of energy at him, striking him fully.

Attack roll of 18 (23). Split's save is 8 and he vanishes. His gun does not.

Meanwhile, another Johan appears, as the original punches at Stryke's double, again ringing a punch off the armor of the woman. He very nearly loses his balance on the grass.

Another natural 1? The dice are making up for your previous skill.

His doubles can't detect any signs whatsoever of Stryke. No visual contact and no sounds at all.

Inside your room, your double can't seem to access ARIS directly. The network appears to still be there, but something or someone is blocking access. As you ponder this, you spot across from your window, someone moving along the rooftop.

Your mental link working, back outside your searching double turns to look, and sees Split, armed with a massive cannon, running along the roof of the dorm. He raises his cannon at Michelle, preparing to fire, and it is painfully obvious that she hasn't seen him at all because she's about thirty feet ahead of him and facing you.

You can use computers to attempt to hack in to ARIS and find out what is wrong if you like next round.

Tara lets out a chittering hiss and slashes at the Stryke duplicate. She impales her through the chest, quite literally slicing her in two before she vanishes, leaving the grass wet with blood.

Tara hits with a 15. Stryke gets a 3 on the damage save and is, well, eviscerated.

Initiatives: Vince 27, Stryke 22 (3L), Michelle 18 (1L, 1HP), Johan 17 x4 (1HP), Split 16, Tara 15 (1L, 2HP), Hoppy 11 (KO), Anna 8 (KO)
Michelle and Johan are up again, as is Vince, who currently gets two rounds of actions before you.

 

[Dalamar]

"Michelle! Cannon-wielding Split is behind you on the roof!" shout the three instances of Johan outside. They then start looking for signs of Stryke's whereabouts, paying special attention to the grass, starting their search around the spot where he saw her last.

The Johan inside starts his hacking into ARIS.

 

[Elementor]

With the room temporarily free of Split's, Vince looks over to see that the school nurse is ok then dashes off after the escaping Splits. If none of them are visible, Vince will zig zag down the hall so he doesnt accidently pass an invisible one. Having gotten what they came for, Vince expects them to just be escaping now and will head towards the nearest exit.

 

[Calinon]

EPIC HQ
Vincent
The nurse has a fairly bad stun burn on the back of her neck. Without treatment soon, it will be far worse.

Medicine check 21 (wow!) to analyze her condition.

You throw open the door after checking on her and burst into the hallway. You don't have to go far to find Split... at least one of them. Down the hall the way you came in, about fifty feet away, stands Split, swords in either hand.

"Enter the demon," he says, his oriental accent strong. "Come. See if you can get past me," he says. Something in his tone gives you pause. Something is glittering on the ground and walls behind him along the hall.

Sense motive versus Bluff, 18 versus 14. Spot check (with +5 bonus) of 23 (success, though you don't know what it is).

Johan and Michelle
Without any knowledge of tracking, it proves impossible to find any evidence of Stryke's passage. You do, however, spot Split's assault rifle on the ground near Michelle about 100 feet distant.

Inside, Johan turns his attention to ARIS. He manages to hack his terminal easily, bringing up a touch screen interface to work with. While he quickly discovers a program running on the system that is preventing ARIS from functioning properly, it is unlike any program he has ever seen. Every move he makes to counter it is itself countered, as if it is a living, thinking program. While Johan has managed to hack inside the system, many terminals, and most importantly the central server, remain locked from him.

Computer check to Hack in is 18 (36). It was not easy (DC 35). Opposed check against the program is 16 (34) versus 34. Stalemate.

Initiatives: Vince 27, Stryke 22 (3L), Michelle 18 (1L, 1HP), Johan 17 x4 (1HP), Split 16x2, Tara 15 (1L, 2HP), Hoppy 11 (KO), Anna 8 (KO)

Michelle is up. If you choose to delay until after Johan so you get warned, Split will go before you on 16, but you will be aware. If you don't wait, you can use a hero point to re-roll your spot check.

Oriental Split is not moving on Vincent, so Vincent can go inside as well.

 

[Mimic]

I will delay until after Johan.

 

[Calinon]

New York
Wave World Amusement Park
Moving along...

Sanjay
Sanjay and Monica manage to find a hot tub to themselves. If possible, Monica's swimsuit is more revealing when soaked, which is suiting Sanjay just fine. He's sitting on the underwater bench, with Monica across from him. She swims across to him, looking a bit flushed, and wraps her arms around his chest.

"Better than any wave pool, don't you think, sport?" she asks, small electrical sparks coming from her neck and face. "You know what I'd really like?" she asks, face coming closer. "I think," she says, breathing heavily. "I.. Sanjay... I... would you...I can't...hot..." she says, her face coming closer to yours. Then she starts to go limp.

You suddenly realize the pool is painfully hot. Steam pours off it and each of the hot tubs in the area.

Way to fail a spot check like nine times... Monica is unconscious.

John and Loki
On the volleyball court, Randall sees a large amount of steam coming from across the amusement park. He also sees John standing with what looks like Mrs. Raynes, press snapping pictures of the two. Cosmo looks over at the steam first.

"What the hell," he says, standing on the umpire chair. "Hey, Rebound, you maybe want to go take a look?" he asks, jumping down.

"Sure, no problem. Be right back ladies!" he says as he bounds away. Lifeguards and security are rushing to that area as well.

"What the hell," Cosmo says again, running to the edge of the main pool, looking at Mrs. Raynes and John. "Loki, you see that? Just wait... there it was again..."

Loki looks over to where John and Mrs. Raynes are and sees a trio of red dots dancing on Mrs. Raynes head and chest. He can see the laser light easily and spots three gunmen, one perched in the rafters high above the pool, one hanging in a harness just in front of the wave generators, hanging from the roof in that enclosed area, and one from beam that vanishes behind a door at the smoothy stand.

Monica runs over to Loki. "What is it? What's happening?"

 

[Calinon]

EPIC HQ
Michelle and Johan
Yay! I get to have a little fun with two people on the same initiative!

Michelle hears Johan and spins around in mid air. "Time to burn, baby!" the Split says.

The tip of the cannon glows with a nearly liquid pulse of blue light and the light bursts out, slamming into Michelle's force field. Light sprays out, but some ekes through, burning her. Knowing full well from previous experience that the beam is not going to shut off, she thrusts her hands into it and lets loose an energy blast of her own, driving the beam back fifteen feet. The two beams crash together with an ominouse crackle as Michelle and Split duel.

Worst for Michelle, she realizes that the cannon has more power than she does, and if she gets pinned...

Good luck! I've been wanting to try this out for a while! Here's how it's going to work.

• Opposed power checks. Winner moves the beam five feet closer to your target.
• You can move forward with opposed strength+power check (driving your opponent backwards), but if you lose, the beam comes five feet closer to you instead.
• You can move backwards without penalty to your opposed roll if you make a concentration check (DC is 10+opponent power rank. You add your power rank to the check)
• There are only 30 feet between the two of you, and the beam is currently at the midway point.
• Any action other than those, regardless of how, means I roll to hit and you take damage normally, so your heroic surge won't help you here unless you want to move forward or back with it. (basically, if you don't want to do it, we just resolve the original attack)

Haven't we all wanted to see one of these blaster power duels?

 

[Mimic]

"Time to burn, baby!" the Split says.[/i]

"Not this time buddy." Michelle pours it on, pushing her powers beyond their normal capacity.

Powers: Forcefield (free action), Flight: (no movement), Energy blast: (half action) <blaster power duel> Extra effort to increase energy blast to 12, H.P. to counter fatigue.

Haven't we all wanted to see one of these blaster power duels?

OOC: Bring it on, Michelle will continue with the blaster power duel until either she or split burns. (More then likely her )

 

[Mule]

Loki looks over to where John and Mrs. Raynes are and sees a trio of red dots dancing on Mrs. Raynes head and chest. He can see the laser light easily and spots three gunmen

"Monica! Get yourself to safety and then call the police! Someone is trying to shoot Mrs. Raynes!"

Randall will turn to Cosmo. "Gunmen, three of them. Try to get that one that went behind the smoothie stand, over there!" He will point in that gunman's direction.

Randall will shout at the top of his lungs towards John. "John! Look out! Mrs Raynes is under attack! Cover her!" Loki will then create the illusion of a giant condor. The bird will easily measure 12' from wingtip to wingtip. With an ear piercing screech, it will dart towards the gunman hanging from the roof and knock him around to spoil his shot. (OOC: yes Loki's illusions now have sound! Woo hoo!)

OOC: I knew it wouldn't take long. When will the group in China get attacked hmmm? hehe

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay and Monica manage to find a hot tub to themselves. If possible, Monica's swimsuit is more revealing when soaked, which is suiting Sanjay just fine. He's sitting on the underwater bench, with Monica across from him. She swims across to him, looking a bit flushed, and wraps her arms around his chest.

"Better than any wave pool, don't you think, sport?" she asks, small electrical sparks coming from her neck and face. "You know what I'd really like?" she asks, face coming closer. "I think," she says, breathing heavily. "I.. Sanjay... I... would you...I can't...hot..." she says, her face coming closer to yours. Then she starts to go limp.

You suddenly realize the pool is painfully hot. Steam pours off it and each of the hot tubs in the area.

Sanjay, a lazy grin on his face, can't take his eyes off of Monica. But as soon as he realizes what's going on, he picks Monica up and launches both of them up out of the water and into the air. He sets down 10 feet from the tub, lying her down on her back and makes sure she's still breathing. He then turns towards the hot tubs, using his powers to change the water in each one from hot to room temperature. "What the hell's going on?" he mumbles to himself.