Epic M&M: Issue 5 (IC)

[Calinon]

October 11, 2120
Mega-City of New York
EPIC Institute, On An EPIC Passenger/Transport Jet
6:00AM
You all awoke and made your way to the tarmac, boarding the jet in time for the mission. Present are all of you, plus Cosmo, Kitten (Monica), Rebound, Iron Maiden (Anna), Mantis (Tara) and Hoppy. You've all had a hearty breakfast and are taking turns changing into your uniforms, playing with the new ear piece communicators and waiting as Michelle makes a few last minute confirmations in the War Room.

Cosmo is busy in the cockpit and Rebound sits with Anna and Johan discussing some sort of new targetting system Anna has installed in her armor, though the armor is stowed and she's in her wheelchair. Tara is bugging Vince by tapping at his new bone spurs and generally teasing him good naturedly about his new look and complimenting him on his new uniform, while Hoppy sits sleeping on a seet beside her. Monica is bubbly, clinging to Sanjay quite cheerfully; lord knows what made her so happy... ok, everyone has a fairly good idea. Amazingly, Cosmo didn't make any comment beyond a smirk and shake of his head. Straightjacket made everyone leave a seat open by the window because apparently his dad likes to sit there; in fact he is there, dressed in a uniform and fiddling with his earpiece.

OOC: Michelle, you can come in and give your briefing whenever you like. The rest of you can talk amongst yourselves

 

[Elementor]

6:00AMTara is bugging Vince by tapping at his new bone spurs and generally teasing him good naturedly about his new look and complimenting him on his new uniform, while Hoppy sits sleeping on a seet beside her.

Vince smiles good naturedly back at Tara, "Yeah, I love the new uniform. Those girls did amazing things. Too bad I was up most of the night getting fitted. I can't exactly buy off the rack anymore. Not that I could before." Trying to stifle a yawn, Vince looks over at Hoppy and smiles at Tara, "Can I pet him? He won't be scared of me will he?"

As they all get ready to leave, Vince absently checks one of the small shoulder pockets on his uniform where he has stashed a couple of his pills. Just to make sure they are still there.

 

[Mordane76]

"I share some blame in this as well... he's the one who created me," X12 says, looking around the washroom. "And we all need to get out of here alive -- EPIC will want as much information on him as they can possibly get. If Michael's still alive, he's got some inside information as well; we'll have to find him and clear out of here fast -- even if it involves calling MTac or, God forbid... ZERO Company; we're gonna need something bigger than swords to handle a shadow army of rampaging Jackals."

"Whatever we do, though... we need to stick together; four of us might actually stand a chance against one of those things," he says, holding a hand for quiet as he places an ear to the door.

 

[Velmont]

Kevin touch Raisa, and for the second time, he gain some height and muscle.

"Stange feeling to grow like that. Anyway, X is right. One against one, you will have some difficulty to beat him. Four against one, we may stand a chance.

And X, sorry for what I have said about you. I was only acting as he expected me to act, to gain some times.

Dara, do you let me mimic your power, two psychic may be usefull against Jackal?"

OOC: Gain the extra Expended power and raise bt 2 my power before mimicking Raisa. As I didn't use my two last extra effort, can I use them now or they are wasted? If I must do new extra efforts, I will spend 2 HP to ignore the fatigue.

I mimic Raisa all powers, skills and feats, except her mental link. If that's not possible, I don't use the all attributes and I only mimic Super-Strenght, Durability and Spot.

 

[Calinon]

Lancheng, China
Raisa, X12, Kevin
OOC: Velmont, you used your first hero point before Prophet interrupted your second, and there is enough time passed that you've lost that one. So you are starting from scratch and currently have four hero points left.

Dara sniffles and wipes her nose on her sleeve as Raisa talks to her. "It was like being held under water when you didn't even get a breath," she says. But she gets to her feet and picks up one of the swords. "I'm coming with you, Raisa. Hey, what's this thingy?" she asks, pushing a small depression on the hilt. The blade suddenly radiates bright light. In surprise, Dara drops the blade, which returns to normal again.

Light Katana: 5L, +light

Kevin touches Raisa's arm and grows to a like height and girth. Fortunately, the pain of mimicing her powers is minimal, and he doesn't suffer long. When Kevin asks to copy Dara, the glare she gives him could melt lead. "Don't touch me!" she screams at him. "Why didn't you just go with him!? Then we'd finally be rid of you!"

Backlash save (DC 16): 14(16) success! Kevin now has:

• Super-strength +8 (extra: protection +8, shockwave +8)
• Feat: durability
• Skill: spot (4 ranks)

X12, you hear nothing beyond the door.

 

[Mimic]

Michelle gets up early to work on any last minute details for the mission as well as contacting SAP to verify the meeting.

Once the jet is airborne, she will stand and address everyone.

Our mission here is two-fold. Firstly we are going to find out what the freezers were for and help defend the facility they were going to transport biohazardous material from, or at the very least convince SAP to up their own defenses. This is the easy part, we have a meeting at noon with Mr. Tyson Santala, a public relations official in South American Pharmaceuticals. He is also a high level aide to SAP CEO Allison Vaile. I hope you all checked out the information on SAP from ARIS.

Epic hasn't had any direct dealing with SAP but concidering the ecomomic and political power that the company has it is crucial that we do not get on their bad side. Hopefully by having Vince with us it will help smooth out any bumps along the way.

Once we get permission to help defend the facility Straightjacket, Cosmo, Neutron, Loki, Iron Maiden and Rebound will head out to start co-ordinating the defense, Straightjacket will be team leader until either myself or Johan is present. The rest of us will remain behind to continue negotiations with SAP if anything else is needed to be done.

The second part of the mission is going to be locating and stopping Mole and his crew. We can track the freezer units so that should give us an advantage of sorts. It is critical that we do this before they steal whatever they are after. Remember they are all criminals and need to be stopped, at this point Michelle briefly looks over towards Tara. I don't need to remind any of you that this mission is of critical importance, lives could be at stake. If there isn't any questions, I need to talk to Straightjacket for a minute.

 

[Velmont]

Kevin grabs a Katana.

"Fine with me if you don't want, Dara. But I suggest you not to waste your time and effort to hate me for now. We have enough problem with Jackal, and you'll have plenty of time to hate me after that. We must stay in group, it is our best chance to get Jackal down.

X let me mimic you acute senses. It will lower the chance to get surprise."

OOC:If X accept, Kevin touch X. Mimic power (Super-Sense), Mimic Skill (Listen). Now, for feats, I got a questuion. Many are linked to powers. Many immunities are the immunity power, does they count as feats? I am suppose to be able to mimic one feat per level of my mimic power. X have 13 feats, but 7 are from immunities, and 3 other are linked to powers? If I can, I will mimic (Iron Will, Immunity(Electricity), Scent, Blind-Sight and Rapid Healing), if I can only choose one, I will take Scent.)

 

[Mimic]

Once Michelle and Straightjacket are in a more private part of the jet.

Look, I know you don't like the way I do things sometimes and that's fine. Go to Thunder and complain, get him to assign someone else as leader but until that happens I am the leader and I can't be wondering whether the people that are supposed to be following me are suddenly going to start questioning my orders.

I need to know if you can wait until the mission is over to start questioning my orders because if you can't then I am going to have to assign someone else as team leader.

 

[Mordane76]

"For now you're forgiven, Kevin, but we're gonna have a long talk once we get Michael and get out of here," X12 says after Kevin's apology. "You're welcome to try my senses, Kevin, but I'm not sure they're working right -- I'm not sure anything is working right," X12 says.

"I don't hear anything," he says after a brief pause, then surveys the sword more closely. "At least Father didn't scrimp on weapons... if we're going to die, at least we'll have a sporting chance,' he adds with a chuckle.

He opens the door a crack, then closes his eyes and gently sniffs the air.

OOC: Let's see if my senses are still working. Powers: Super Senses, Telescopic, Blindsight.

 

[Deva]

Raisa wrinkles her nose in digust. "Must you call him that?"

She paces anxiously while waiting for X to do his thing, examining her sword for the same indentation that Dara's had on the handle.