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Epic M&M: Issue 5 (IC)
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Elementor
First Post
OOC: The worst that can happen by failing my acrobatics roll is they still get their attack of opportunity right? So I may as well at least try to tumble past them on my way to the car
In a blur of motion Vince dashes between the robots spinning and twisting as well as his 7 ft frame will allow him (Acrobatics +6). With any luck the robots might even shot each other in their attempts to hit the speedy target.
Leaping onto the vehicles hood, Vince roars down at Rameirez "GET OUT NOW!!" (Intimidate +4) and delivers a Mach One Punch with a spiked fist to the windshield while holding onto the hood with the other hand in case the vehicle takes off.
In a blur of motion Vince dashes between the robots spinning and twisting as well as his 7 ft frame will allow him (Acrobatics +6). With any luck the robots might even shot each other in their attempts to hit the speedy target.
Leaping onto the vehicles hood, Vince roars down at Rameirez "GET OUT NOW!!" (Intimidate +4) and delivers a Mach One Punch with a spiked fist to the windshield while holding onto the hood with the other hand in case the vehicle takes off.
Agamon
Adventurer
Elementor said:
This ain't D&D. There is no Tumbling (Acrobatics is for lessening fall damage and performing) and no AoO. Nothing stoping you from running past them actually.
Sanjay stirs from his reverie as the robots enter the room. He smiles at Metal Mistress' order. "My pleasure." Stepping next to Ms. Vaile, he forms a spherical metal shield around the both of them. When he's done, he turns to her with a smile. "Hi. I'm Neutron." His smile disappears. "Hey, I think I know who those mercs are getting the Anaconda for...or do you already know that, too?"
Calinon
First Post
Brazilia, SAA
SAP Corporate HQ
Initiatives: Rameirez 22, Speed Demon 21, Straightjacket 21, Mantis 20, Loki 19, Cosmo 18, Metal Mistress 16 (1HP), Robots(6 up [1 motionless, 1 grappled], 4 down) 14, Iron Maiden 12, Kitten 11, Guards(5) 11-2, Neutron 6, Rebound 5, Johan 5-2
Michelle reaches out at one of the robots and instantly it falls to the ground, unable to fly with it's magnetic coils drained. It uses its grasping hand to pull itself around, lining its gun arm up at Michelle.
Attack roll: 17 hits (drain of 10 points drains the magnetic force keeping the robot afloat completely)
Cosmo is already in motion. He leaps over SJ and his grappled foe, springing off the big man's shoulders. His feet hit the roof right above another robot... and he stands there as if it's the ground. He reaches down, grabs hold of the head of the robot, and rips it off.
Attack roll: 25
Damage save: failed (destroyed)
Loki is up, then the robots.
Anna shouts, "I'll help Vince," as Tara attacks the robots, and with a blast, soars across the room and down the chute.
Downstairs, 20 seconds in the future...
Vincent
You spin, whipping your tail in a circle, connecting with the hover devices in the base of the robots. The robots wobble slightly, allowing you to dash out of the trap towards the car. You punch the window, but surprisingly, the glass flexes but doesn't break, your bone spurs leaving small score marks in the substance. You manage to grab hold of a very small seam between the hood and the front windscreen and are dragged along as the obviously paniced man makes his way slowly towards the opening door.
Acrobatics check: 22 (success)
Attack roll: Uh... it's a car. You hit it.
Damage save (DC 24): 21 (-1 hardness for the glass)
Jump check (DC 10): 8 (fails, so you punch the side window)
Intimidate check (DC 16 -- you didn't break the window): 15 [he's scared, but he aint stopping!]
The robots home in on the speedy demon. The two by the chute both float rapidly at Vince, one firing a blast of electricity at the car, the other blasting the floor with a cold beam, coating it in ice. Vince notices the wheels atop their gun are stopped with the yellow light and blue light forward, respectively. The electricity doesn't seem to hurt the car or bother Rameirez, but it certainly is sparking you up nicely as you fight to maintain your footing and grip on the vehicle.
Reflex save (electricity) (DC 18): 29 success
Damage save (electricity) (DC 19): 15 fails (1S)
Balance check (slick) (DC 18): 17 fails (prone)
Strength check (DC 15): 16 success
You manage, despite falling, to hold onto the vehicle, and are dragged along the icy ground as the other two robots blast at you with some sort white bolts of energy, the white light forwardmost on their guns. Both bolts slam into the ice field and disappate, spraying chunks of ice up.
Attack rolls: 21, 18 (miss, miss)
The door slams open just as the sounds of a jet pack come from the chute, followed by a rapidly decelerating Iron Maiden. Without waiting for instruction, a sonic cannon appears on her wrist and she cuts loose a sonic burst blows the nearest robot to smithereens!
Attack roll: 17 hits
Damage save (DC 24): 13 (Ka-BOOM!)
With a roar, Rameirez floors the accellerator and the car surges forward. Vince loses his grip and spins on his side on the ice as Rameirez shoots out of the bay in his hovercar.
Strength check (DC 15): 11 fails
Loki still up, then the robots upstairs, then everybody else in what is shaping up to be the shortest fight in history.
Lancheng, China
Raisa
Initiative: Jackal 28 (1S, stunned), Raisa 18 (2S)
Raisa smotes Jackal so hard, that there is an audible Krrrr-ACK! Jackal is lifted off his feet and sent flying back from her some 30 feet!
Attack roll: Natural 20 (crit)
Damage save (DC 21): 15 (1S, stunned)
Jackal shakes his head and staggers to his feet, a few drops of blood trickling from his jowels.
Raisa is up again.
SAP Corporate HQ
Initiatives: Rameirez 22, Speed Demon 21, Straightjacket 21, Mantis 20, Loki 19, Cosmo 18, Metal Mistress 16 (1HP), Robots(6 up [1 motionless, 1 grappled], 4 down) 14, Iron Maiden 12, Kitten 11, Guards(5) 11-2, Neutron 6, Rebound 5, Johan 5-2
Michelle reaches out at one of the robots and instantly it falls to the ground, unable to fly with it's magnetic coils drained. It uses its grasping hand to pull itself around, lining its gun arm up at Michelle.
Attack roll: 17 hits (drain of 10 points drains the magnetic force keeping the robot afloat completely)
Cosmo is already in motion. He leaps over SJ and his grappled foe, springing off the big man's shoulders. His feet hit the roof right above another robot... and he stands there as if it's the ground. He reaches down, grabs hold of the head of the robot, and rips it off.
Attack roll: 25
Damage save: failed (destroyed)
Loki is up, then the robots.
Anna shouts, "I'll help Vince," as Tara attacks the robots, and with a blast, soars across the room and down the chute.
Downstairs, 20 seconds in the future...
Vincent
You spin, whipping your tail in a circle, connecting with the hover devices in the base of the robots. The robots wobble slightly, allowing you to dash out of the trap towards the car. You punch the window, but surprisingly, the glass flexes but doesn't break, your bone spurs leaving small score marks in the substance. You manage to grab hold of a very small seam between the hood and the front windscreen and are dragged along as the obviously paniced man makes his way slowly towards the opening door.
Acrobatics check: 22 (success)
Attack roll: Uh... it's a car. You hit it.
Damage save (DC 24): 21 (-1 hardness for the glass)
Jump check (DC 10): 8 (fails, so you punch the side window)
Intimidate check (DC 16 -- you didn't break the window): 15 [he's scared, but he aint stopping!]
The robots home in on the speedy demon. The two by the chute both float rapidly at Vince, one firing a blast of electricity at the car, the other blasting the floor with a cold beam, coating it in ice. Vince notices the wheels atop their gun are stopped with the yellow light and blue light forward, respectively. The electricity doesn't seem to hurt the car or bother Rameirez, but it certainly is sparking you up nicely as you fight to maintain your footing and grip on the vehicle.
Reflex save (electricity) (DC 18): 29 success
Damage save (electricity) (DC 19): 15 fails (1S)
Balance check (slick) (DC 18): 17 fails (prone)
Strength check (DC 15): 16 success
You manage, despite falling, to hold onto the vehicle, and are dragged along the icy ground as the other two robots blast at you with some sort white bolts of energy, the white light forwardmost on their guns. Both bolts slam into the ice field and disappate, spraying chunks of ice up.
Attack rolls: 21, 18 (miss, miss)
The door slams open just as the sounds of a jet pack come from the chute, followed by a rapidly decelerating Iron Maiden. Without waiting for instruction, a sonic cannon appears on her wrist and she cuts loose a sonic burst blows the nearest robot to smithereens!
Attack roll: 17 hits
Damage save (DC 24): 13 (Ka-BOOM!)
With a roar, Rameirez floors the accellerator and the car surges forward. Vince loses his grip and spins on his side on the ice as Rameirez shoots out of the bay in his hovercar.
Strength check (DC 15): 11 fails
Loki still up, then the robots upstairs, then everybody else in what is shaping up to be the shortest fight in history.
Lancheng, China
Raisa
Initiative: Jackal 28 (1S, stunned), Raisa 18 (2S)
Raisa smotes Jackal so hard, that there is an audible Krrrr-ACK! Jackal is lifted off his feet and sent flying back from her some 30 feet!
Attack roll: Natural 20 (crit)
Damage save (DC 21): 15 (1S, stunned)
Jackal shakes his head and staggers to his feet, a few drops of blood trickling from his jowels.
Raisa is up again.
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Mule
First Post
OOC: Since dazzle is an attack, Loki could only (attempt to) blind 1 robot this round, right?Mimic said:
Loki will create some illusionary robots of his own, similar to the ones the team is fighting, and have them advance on the largest group of enemy robots. Loki will also try to blind one of the robots, as per Michelle's orders.
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Calinon
First Post
And the long arse battle posts of doom continue unabated...
Brazilia, SAA
SAP Corporate HQ
Initiatives: Rameirez 22, Speed Demon 21, Straightjacket 21, Mantis 20, Loki 19, Cosmo 18, Metal Mistress 16 (1HP), Robots(6 up [1 motionless, 1 grappled, 1 blinded], 4 down) 14, Iron Maiden 12, Kitten 11, Guards(5) 11-2, Neutron 6, Rebound 5, Johan 5-2
Loki stands up, looking left then right quickly. Suddenly, seven more floating robots appear, magnetic hover engines humming and gun wheel spinning, but these ones are black instead of silver with a large 'EPIC' stamp on the front and back. They rush threateningly towards the remaining robots, four towards the side of the room Tara is on (2 robots floating, one destroyed, one motionless) and three towards the side SJ, Hoppy and Cosmo are on (2 robots floating, one destroyed, one grappled). He points a finger at the robot nearest Tara and a beam of light streaks out, striking it the optic sensors. The robot starts spinning in place as smoke rises from its head.
Attack roll: 17 hits
Reflex save: 12 fails (blinded)
Unable to differentiate between real and fake, the robots start blasting the rapidly advancing EPIC-bots. The effect is sort of what was planned, though it sends many of you ducking as white energy blasts pass through the EPIC-bots to strike the walls, floor and ceiling around the room. The robots don't seem to be able to solve the logic program, their wheels, which were on white a moment ago, starting to spin to red, yellow and black, varying from robot to robot.
Attack rolls: All hits, because it doesn't matter.
Will saves: 14, 12, 8, 5, 16, 16 (all fail)
Monica runs over to Straightjacket and grabs hold of the sparking end of its severed arm. Rather than burn her, you see power start surging into her. The robot finally goes limp in Straightjacket's grasp, and sparks start rising from Monica as her body disappates the excess electricity. She actually burps. "Mmm... delicious," she says. Her midsection is glowing brightly enough that the yellow glow can be seen through the leather she wears. "Get me another, would you, stretch?"
Extra effort to increase her drain by 2 ranks.
Attack roll: 15 hits (fully drains the robot)
As Neutron creates his sphere to protect Ms. Vaile, the guards fire as a group on the fallen robot, trying to eliminate it from the equation, but their weapons prove ineffective against it, it's metallic skin absorbing the blasts.
Rebound expands and and with a rapid boing boing boing starts ricocheting between ceiling and floor, advancing rapidly on the fallen robot near Tara. Once above it, he starts bouncing up and down on it. It's like in a cartoon, when something gets stomped on; the robot keeps looking more and more mangled, until it's nearly flat, it's gun arm sparking and twitching as the last of its power drains from it.
Johan's knowledge of robotics proves not to be quite up to par in this case. In fact, he's never seen a robot like this. Compared to the ones that attacked you in the train, which are a standard military model types for many countries, this thing is a freaking super robot. Undeterred, your two doubles leap onto the nearest robot, weighing it down slightly and making it exceptionally hard for the thing to use its gun arm.
Attack roll: 19 (hits, combined fire)
Grapple check: Johan's 24, Robot 23 (WTF! You grappled it!)
Damage save: unnecessary, damage bonus too low.
Sanjay
Ms. Vaile taps on the sphere from her sitting position on the floor and smiles. "Nice, but a window to what is going on might be nice. This isn't air tight I hope," she adds without real concern, holding her hand out so you can help her to her feet. She slips out of her heels so she can gain better fit within the sphere. She's taller than you thought, standing likely six feet in height. Somehow, despite being tackled by security guards, shot at by her own CEO and attacked by killer robots, she seems not only unphased, but she still looks perfect. And she's wearing a really nice perfume.
"Hello, Neutron," she says with a very disarming smile. "Other than guessing what these mercenaries are after, I know very little. I was only informed EPIC was here ten minutes ago, so I am woefully underinformed, and very concerned with what is going on. So I would very much like to know who is after the Anaconda virus, but I would also very much like to know how you have witnessed the effects of the virus," she says, sounding very concerned.
Speed Demon, Straightjacket, Loki, Metal Mistress can all do their thing.
Lancheng, China
Raisa
Initiative: Jackal 28 (1VP, 2S, stunned), Raisa 18 (2S)
Raisa charges Jackal, kicking hard at the creature as it gets to its feet. Jackal manages to set himself just before Raisa connects. There is another loud crack as her foot hits his chest, but despite looking a bit winded and getting stood up straight, he doesn't move an inch, the claws on his feet dug deeply into the cobblestones.
Attack roll: Natural 20 (again!)
Damage save (DC 21): 9 (VP to re-roll becomes 15) (1S, stunned)
Jackal shakes his head and thumps his arm to his chest as if to say it didn't hurt. Setting himself again, he tries to ready himself again. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was enjoying this.
Raisa is up.
Brazilia, SAA
SAP Corporate HQ
Initiatives: Rameirez 22, Speed Demon 21, Straightjacket 21, Mantis 20, Loki 19, Cosmo 18, Metal Mistress 16 (1HP), Robots(6 up [1 motionless, 1 grappled, 1 blinded], 4 down) 14, Iron Maiden 12, Kitten 11, Guards(5) 11-2, Neutron 6, Rebound 5, Johan 5-2
Loki stands up, looking left then right quickly. Suddenly, seven more floating robots appear, magnetic hover engines humming and gun wheel spinning, but these ones are black instead of silver with a large 'EPIC' stamp on the front and back. They rush threateningly towards the remaining robots, four towards the side of the room Tara is on (2 robots floating, one destroyed, one motionless) and three towards the side SJ, Hoppy and Cosmo are on (2 robots floating, one destroyed, one grappled). He points a finger at the robot nearest Tara and a beam of light streaks out, striking it the optic sensors. The robot starts spinning in place as smoke rises from its head.
Attack roll: 17 hits
Reflex save: 12 fails (blinded)
Unable to differentiate between real and fake, the robots start blasting the rapidly advancing EPIC-bots. The effect is sort of what was planned, though it sends many of you ducking as white energy blasts pass through the EPIC-bots to strike the walls, floor and ceiling around the room. The robots don't seem to be able to solve the logic program, their wheels, which were on white a moment ago, starting to spin to red, yellow and black, varying from robot to robot.
Attack rolls: All hits, because it doesn't matter.
Will saves: 14, 12, 8, 5, 16, 16 (all fail)
Monica runs over to Straightjacket and grabs hold of the sparking end of its severed arm. Rather than burn her, you see power start surging into her. The robot finally goes limp in Straightjacket's grasp, and sparks start rising from Monica as her body disappates the excess electricity. She actually burps. "Mmm... delicious," she says. Her midsection is glowing brightly enough that the yellow glow can be seen through the leather she wears. "Get me another, would you, stretch?"
Extra effort to increase her drain by 2 ranks.
Attack roll: 15 hits (fully drains the robot)
As Neutron creates his sphere to protect Ms. Vaile, the guards fire as a group on the fallen robot, trying to eliminate it from the equation, but their weapons prove ineffective against it, it's metallic skin absorbing the blasts.
Rebound expands and and with a rapid boing boing boing starts ricocheting between ceiling and floor, advancing rapidly on the fallen robot near Tara. Once above it, he starts bouncing up and down on it. It's like in a cartoon, when something gets stomped on; the robot keeps looking more and more mangled, until it's nearly flat, it's gun arm sparking and twitching as the last of its power drains from it.
Johan's knowledge of robotics proves not to be quite up to par in this case. In fact, he's never seen a robot like this. Compared to the ones that attacked you in the train, which are a standard military model types for many countries, this thing is a freaking super robot. Undeterred, your two doubles leap onto the nearest robot, weighing it down slightly and making it exceptionally hard for the thing to use its gun arm.
Attack roll: 19 (hits, combined fire)
Grapple check: Johan's 24, Robot 23 (WTF! You grappled it!)
Damage save: unnecessary, damage bonus too low.
Sanjay
Ms. Vaile taps on the sphere from her sitting position on the floor and smiles. "Nice, but a window to what is going on might be nice. This isn't air tight I hope," she adds without real concern, holding her hand out so you can help her to her feet. She slips out of her heels so she can gain better fit within the sphere. She's taller than you thought, standing likely six feet in height. Somehow, despite being tackled by security guards, shot at by her own CEO and attacked by killer robots, she seems not only unphased, but she still looks perfect. And she's wearing a really nice perfume.
"Hello, Neutron," she says with a very disarming smile. "Other than guessing what these mercenaries are after, I know very little. I was only informed EPIC was here ten minutes ago, so I am woefully underinformed, and very concerned with what is going on. So I would very much like to know who is after the Anaconda virus, but I would also very much like to know how you have witnessed the effects of the virus," she says, sounding very concerned.
Speed Demon, Straightjacket, Loki, Metal Mistress can all do their thing.
Lancheng, China
Raisa
Initiative: Jackal 28 (1VP, 2S, stunned), Raisa 18 (2S)
Raisa charges Jackal, kicking hard at the creature as it gets to its feet. Jackal manages to set himself just before Raisa connects. There is another loud crack as her foot hits his chest, but despite looking a bit winded and getting stood up straight, he doesn't move an inch, the claws on his feet dug deeply into the cobblestones.
Attack roll: Natural 20 (again!)
Damage save (DC 21): 9 (VP to re-roll becomes 15) (1S, stunned)
Jackal shakes his head and thumps his arm to his chest as if to say it didn't hurt. Setting himself again, he tries to ready himself again. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was enjoying this.
Raisa is up.
