Mai Pei, China
October 25, 2120
X12 runs the distance to Dara. he finds her in pretty banged up shape, from Raisa's attack, the fall and tumble down the hillside, but in short order has her groggily gettng to her feet. It is a bit longer to get back than it was to get to Dara.
Kevin moves to the closest mutant, the woman, and finds her rapidly dying. She starts convulsing the moment he touches her, and her mind refuses to relinquish her powers to Kevin.
Will save (DC18): 22 succeeds (heh, sorry, it shouldn't be that hard, but oy, good saves)
As he moves to the unconscious man in the cave entrance, Michael and Li are both taking up position there as well. The cave entrance is far too large to create an effective bottleneck with so few people, being nearly twenty feet across. As Dara and X12 are about 45 feet away and Kevin is kneeling down to mimic the man's powers, Michael shouts a warning.
"Look out! Someone is..." he starts.
A flash of movement in front of Kevin is all he gets, and he's caught flat footed as Xi rushes from the darkness, driving a knee into Kevin's forehead. Kevin stumbles back, his vision blurred and forehead bleeding, reeling from the blow despite nearly managing to avoid it entirely. He feels his powers slip away, though with Jackal, Li, the unconscious man and now Xi so close, new targets won't be hard to find.
Attack roll: 18 hits
Damage save (DC24): 22 fails (1L, stunned!) -- STUNNING BLOW! [mimiced abilities lost]
Initiatives: Xi 25, Jackal 24 (4HP), Raisa 18 (3HP), Kevin 18 (3HP, 2L, 1S, stunned), Li 15 (1S), Dara 12 (3HP), Carl 11 (4HP), X12 5 (1HP)
Jackal looks very confused. "Xi? What are you doing?" he asks, reaching for the snarling man. You notice with some disgust that he is missing a finger. He also has a strange glow about his eyes.
"We wondered when you'd arrive," he says lyrically with a trilling laugh, an odd sound for the raspy man to make. "Stealth isn't exactly your specialty is it?" The manner of speaking leaves no doubt in Raisa, Carl or Dara's mind that Sho is controlling Xi.
X12, you see the woman Carl shot convulsing on the ground, blood welling up from between her lips.
Raisa, Kevin, X12 are up! Regeneration has been accounted for.
Brazilia, SAA
SAP Research Facility
October 13, 2120
Containment Area
Initiatives: Flick 31 (3VP, 2S), Aerin 30 (2VP, 1L, 2S, 2 elementals), Cosmo 25 (4HP), Monica 22 (3HP, 2S, 1L), Loki 21 (3HP), Mantis 19 (3PL Insect Control), Straightjacket 18 (1HP, 2L), Ghost 17, Vince 15 (2HP), Mole 15 (4VP, 1L, 3S, KO), Metal Mistress 13 (1HP, 3PL Magnetic Control, 1L), Neutron 12 (4HP, 1L, 2S, fatigued, Anaconda infected), Johan 7 (2HP, 2S), Anna 6 (2L, 3S, 4HP, disabled, KO), Rebound 5 (5HP, 1S , fatigued, KO), Mason 4, Anithos 0 (5VP, disabled)
Neutron starts to disolve the truck, creating a massive energy field around it, and while it is obviously damaged, it isn't disabled. The force field continues to hum unabated, and Ghost seems unbothered by the action.
Rebound inflates and bounds after Vince, throwing himself violently at the Mole. With Vince distracting him, he manages to impact the hairy brute with a loud boing! The Mole staggers for the first time, seeming truly injured by the massive attack. As the two behemoths seperate, both stand staring at each other with dazed expressions, then topple over away from each other onto their backs, unconscious! Rebound rapidly shrinks to normal size.
Attack roll: 11 (VP 17) (flank and charge)
Damage save (DC25): 12 (VP 14) fails! (1S, KO!) (power attack +5, ramming +4)
Damage save (DC19): 8 (1S, KO) -- poor Rebound
Flanking proves to be the difference, along with the stun hit Vince just inflicted!
Johan is up, then it's the dreaded Mason.
